How did Sai Baba encourage the author to write down his stories, and what role did Baba say he himself would play in the process?

Sai Baba provided immense encouragement to the author, whose mind was impatient. As recounted in Chapter 2, Baba felt compassion and granted permission for a collection of stories to be made, promising his full help. He profoundly stated that the author was merely a pretext and that Baba himself would write his own story to fulfill the devotee's wish. The key condition was that the author must dissolve his ego and surrender it at Baba's feet. If this was done, Baba promised he would enter with his own 'I-ness' and write with his own hand, ensuring the work belonged to the one it was about.