How did Sai Baba explain his true, omnipresent nature when instructing Annasaheb on how to worship him?

After telling Annasaheb to perform His service, Baba elaborated on the nature of this worship by explaining His true identity. As narrated in Chapter 3, He clarified that His physical body was perishable, but His true self, the Brahman, is imperishable and worthy of worship. He explained that He is present everywhere in the form of the eightfold nature (Ashtadha-prakriti), a concept He said the Lord explained to Arjuna in the Gita. Baba stated, "Whatever has name, form, or shape, in the world of the moving and unmoving, I alone am playing as the eightfold nature." This teaching directed the devotee to see and worship Sai not just in His physical form, but in all of creation.