How did Sai Baba explain his true nature when teaching about the correct way to worship him?

When instructing on the nature of worship, Sai Baba emphasized that his physical form was perishable and not the ultimate object of devotion. According to Chapter 3, he explained that his true, imperishable self is the Brahman, which is worthy of worship. He described himself as being omnipresent, filling the entire universe in the form of the eightfold nature, or 'Ashtadha-prakriti,' a concept he related to the Gita's discourse. Baba stated, "Whatever has name, form, or shape, in the world of the moving and unmoving, I alone am playing as the eightfold nature." He taught that he is present everywhere and in everything, and true worship involves recognizing this all-pervading divine consciousness.