How can it be literally true that Sai Baba himself is writing the story, as claimed in the book? Isn't that just a metaphor for divine inspiration?

Within the narrative, this is presented as a literal promise from Sai Baba, contingent on the author's spiritual state. In Chapter 2, Sai Baba instructs the author to keep a record but declares, "He is merely a pretext; I myself shall write my own story!" This divine help is conditioned on the author's complete surrender: "He should dissolve his ego and surrender it at my feet." Baba elaborates that when the ego is fully dissolved, "Then I myself shall enter with 'I-ness' and write with my own hand." Therefore, the text doesn't frame this as a simple metaphor for inspiration, but as a profound spiritual process where the divine takes over the act of creation once the human agent has completely relinquished their ego.