How did Sai Baba explain the connection between eating food and being able to practice devotion to God?

Sai Baba taught that there is a direct and essential connection between physical nourishment and spiritual capacity. According to Chapter 32, he believed that all our senses require strength from food to function properly, and only then can devotion to God happen. The text poses rhetorical questions: without the sustenance of food, how can the eyes see God, the tongue describe His glory, or the ears hear His praise? It emphasizes that during intense hunger, one realizes that food itself is a form of Brahman. Therefore, Baba's philosophy was that if the senses become weak from lack of food, they lose their capacity for spirituality, making moderate eating a prerequisite for effective devotional practice.