Can you explain the philosophical perspective on the death of a saint like Sai Baba, as described in the texts? It seems paradoxical.

Chapter 43 provides a deep philosophical explanation, asserting that for saints, death is an illusion, much like a solar eclipse is merely a defect of vision. Sai Samarth is described as the complete Supreme Brahman, for whom birth and death are false imaginations. He incarnated by his own will for the welfare of devotees. His departure was a conscious act of merging into the unmanifest by burning the body in the fire of Yoga. The text asks, 'can that body be said to have perished?' when he was so firmly imprinted in the hearts of devotees. This beginningless and endless Sai will remain unbroken even at the end of the universe, filling the moving and non-moving world in his true form.