How did Sai Baba guide his devotees towards a more disciplined spiritual life, as seen with Madhavrao?

Sai Baba's method of guidance was often subtle and tailored to the devotee's needs, even those they hadn't expressed. Chapter 27 describes how Baba, seeing his devotee Madhavrao (Shama), felt that 'a rule should be set for his life' to give him the 'blessing of the path of devotion' and help him find 'rest in worldly life.' He orchestrated a situation involving a Ramdasi Buwa who was reading the Adhyatma Ramayana in the Masjid. This was Baba's way of granting grace to Shama, even though Shama had no overt desire, by creating the circumstances to instill a regular devotional practice in his life.