Can you tell me about the story of the theft that is referenced at the beginning of Chapter 36?

While Chapter 36 opens by referencing a 'beautiful story of the theft' that was narrated in the previous chapter, it does not provide any details about that story itself. The text immediately moves on, making a promise to tell another story to quench the devotee's spiritual thirst for self-bliss. The purpose of this mention in Chapter 36 is to create a narrative link to the prior chapter. It then introduces its own content, which is a description of Sai's divine nature followed by the story of 'The Two Gentlemen from Goa.' To learn about the theft incident, one would need to refer to the preceding chapter.