Describe why the author decided to pause the main narrative to tell the story of his name, 'Hemadpant'.

The author provides a clear justification for pausing the biography to insert a personal story. He explains in Chapter 2 that he remembered a promise made to the listeners at the end of the previous chapter to tell this story. He also notes the natural curiosity that would arise from seeing the credit "Composed by the devotee Hemadpant" at the end of each chapter. He feels that satisfying this curiosity is appropriate and, in fact, considers it to be an inspiration from Sai himself. He presents it as a necessary sub-story to address before the sequence of Sai’s life story can continue.