How did Sai Baba's methods for helping his devotees demonstrate both patience and cleverness?

Sai Baba's approach to helping his followers was often indirect and required patience from all involved. As described in Chapter 27, his method is compared to a doctor who uses a trick to administer medicine to a difficult patient. Rather than using force, the doctor offers jaggery first to make the medicine palatable. Similarly, Baba would change the 'vehicle' of his grace to suit the devotee. He knew the devotee's state of mind and would sometimes use casual humor or an unexpected act to fulfill their purpose, demonstrating a clever and surprising way of granting grace that was not always straightforward and often required the devotee to wait patiently for his unique timing.