Analyze how Sai Baba orchestrated events, using the pretext of collecting Dakshina, to teach the narrator a personal lesson about spiritual discipline.

Sai Baba employed a masterful and subtle teaching method to address the narrator's inner turmoil. As explained in Chapter 18, Baba perceived the narrator's envy towards Sathe and his impatience. Instead of a direct lecture, Baba sent him to Shama to collect fifteen rupees in Dakshina. This errand was merely a pretext. The true purpose was revealed when the narrator, while waiting for Shama, casually picked up the Nath Bhagawat book and it opened to the exact portion he had neglected to read that morning out of laziness. This 'coincidence' made him realize that Baba had engineered the entire situation to guide him back to his own practice and enforce the importance of 'discipline,' defined as regular, consistent reading, without fail.