How do enlightened beings like Sai Baba view the concepts of birth and death differently from ordinary people?

For great saints like Sai Samarth, birth and death are considered false imaginations. Chapter 43 defines birth as the union of the body and senses and death as their separation. However, saints who incarnate by their own will for the welfare of devotees are not touched by this cycle. Sai is described as a mass of bliss, the complete Supreme Brahman, for whom bodily impulses are non-existent. For such a being, who has already burned the body in the fire of Yoga, death is like dust. The text explains that death is a characteristic of the physical body, but for a saint, it is merely a defect of vision, like an eclipse, not a true end to their existence.