How did Sai Baba view the role of our physical senses in the practice of devotion, and what does food have to do with it?

Sai Baba taught that the physical senses are crucial instruments for devotion, and their proper functioning depends on nourishment. According to Chapter 32, he believed that if the senses become weak from lack of food, they lose their "capacity for spirituality." The text poses powerful questions to make this point: "Without the moistness of food in the belly, how can the eyes see God? How can the tongue describe His glory? How can the ears hear it?" This shows that devotion was not an abstract concept for him but an embodied practice. Therefore, his advice was to first eat and provide strength to the senses. Only then, he taught, could devotion to God happen effectively and the soul find peace.