[[File:Upasni 5.jpg|thumb|Upasni and chief disciple Godavari Ma in Sakori]]
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'''Sakori''' is a village in [[Ahmednagar]] District of [[Maharashtra]] State, [[India]] that is most famous as the place where [[Upasni Maharaj]] lived and worked.
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'''Sakori''' or '''Sakuri''' is a small village in the [[Ahmednagar district]] of [[Maharashtra|Maharashtra State]], India, about {{convert|5|km|0}} south of [[Shirdi]].<ref>The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi, by Antonio Rigopoulos, SUNY Press, p. 201</ref> Sakori is best known as the home of [[Hindu]] [[guru]] [[Upasni Maharaj]] and of his [[ashram]], '''Kanya Kumari Sthan'''. It is located at {{coord|19|43|32|N|74|28|41.18|E|display=inline}}.
==Notable people==
[[Upasni Maharaj]] (1870-1941) lived four years in nearby Shirdi as a disciple of [[Sai Baba of Shirdi|Sai Baba]] before starting his ashram in Sakori in July 1917. He continued to live in Sakori until his death in 1941.
The master [[Meher Baba]] was initiated in Sakori after a seven-year discipleship with Upasni Maharaj that began in 1915 when Upasni was living at Shirdi and continued at Sakori from 1917-1922.<ref>Kalchuri, Bhau: ''Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba'', Manifestation, Inc. 1986. p. 243</ref>
