Did Sai Baba really die, or is his 'mahasamadhi' understood differently?

Chapter 43 posits that Sai Baba, as the Supreme Brahman, is beyond the concepts of birth and death. While it is said that he left his body, the text strongly questions this perception, asking, 'Who will believe these words?'. It clarifies that this was a voluntary act, a spontaneous play of Yoga where he merged himself into the unmanifest. As detailed in Chapter 43, he burned his body in the fire of Yoga to attain his previous unmanifest state, transcending the material form. Therefore, his passing is not seen as death in the conventional sense, but as a merging with the unmanifest while remaining eternally in the hearts of his devotees.