How does the narrator in Chapter 36 perceive their own role in telling Sai Baba's stories?

The narrator in Chapter 36 expresses profound humility, acknowledging the infinite greatness of saints and questioning their own authority to describe it. The text highlights the narrator's awareness of their own ego, or "I-ness," and states a belief that the "playful Sai himself takes over" the act of storytelling. As described in Chapter 36, the narrator sees themselves merely as an instrument or a pretext. Sai Baba is presented as the true author, using the narrator as a channel to make his own qualities heard by his devotees and to fulfill their desires through the sacred act of narration.