From a philosophical standpoint, how can we reconcile Sai Baba's status as the Supreme Brahman with the historical event of his Mahasamadhi?

Chapter 43 addresses this apparent paradox by explaining that for the Supreme Brahman, the material world is an illusion, and therefore, consciousness of the body does not apply. Sai Baba's Mahasamadhi was not a death in the conventional sense but is described as the 'spontaneous play of Yoga for the sake of the devotees' salvation.' He willfully 'burned the body in the fire of Yoga' to merge back into his unmanifest state. The text compares the death of saints to a solar eclipse—it is merely a defect of our vision, not a change in the sun's true nature. As an avatar who incarnated for the welfare of people, the states of birth and death never truly touched him. His task being complete, he simply returned to his true form, remaining unbroken and eternally present.