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Sachal Sarmast lived a humble, ascetic life, preferring solitude, simple meals of daal and yogurt. He is sometimes called Sachoo, The Truthful.

Later people added Sarmast (Ecstatic Master) to his name in appreciation of his spiritual poetry.

Listening to music sent him into a state of rapture with tears pouring down his face.Ībdul Wahab married, but his young wife died two years later. His father died when he was a young child, and Abdul Wahab was raised by his uncle, who also became his spiritual master. Sachal Sarmast was born Abdul Wahab in the Sindh region of what is today Pakistan.

He taught a Sufi vision of Unity called Wahdat al-Wujud, which has been compared to the great nondualist teachings of Advaita Vedanta within Hinduism and Zen/Chan within Buddhism. Sachal urged people to seek the truth directly, rather than through mere conformity to tradition.