From the author's perspective in Chapter 36, what is the role of the individual who narrates Sai's stories?

In Chapter 36, the narrator expresses profound humility, questioning their own authority to describe the infinite greatness of saints by asking, "What authority do I have?" The text suggests that the narrator's ego, or "I-ness," is completely set aside. It posits that it is the "playful Sai himself" who takes control of the narration. According to this chapter, Sai Baba makes his own qualities heard by his devotees through the narrator, rendering the speaker and the listener a "mere pretext" through which he fulfills the spiritual desires of the devotees and disseminates his own stories.