Opinion: The making of a bhakti saint

- Bahina Bai became that voice of Bhakti who espoused the middle path—one that upset nobody even as it delivered her the thing she craved: oneness with god
- In her grief, Bahina Bai had a vision of her contemporary Tukaram, already a famous man. Deeming herself his disciple, the adolescent was quickly absorbed in bhakti