How does Sai Baba attract new devotees and build a community, especially those who might be skeptical at first?

According to the sacred texts, Baba himself accomplishes this work by providing inspiration from within. As detailed in Chapter 35, he stimulates a person's natural disposition and leads them toward the spiritual path. The story of Boss Dharamsee illustrates this perfectly. He arrived with a 'clinical scrutiny,' but after a personal experience where Baba turned seeded grapes into seedless ones, his ego dropped away and a profound love for the saint was born, transforming his skepticism into a firm determination to return to Shirdi.