How does the Satcharita explain the concept of Sai Baba's death? Was it considered a real death?

The text in Chapter 43 argues that for a being like Sai Baba, death as we understand it is a false imagination. It defines death as the separation of body and senses, but posits that Sai Samarth, being a "mass of bliss" and the "complete Supreme Brahman," is not subject to it. The text suggests his departure was a conscious act, a "spontaneous play of Yoga for the sake of the devotees' salvation." It compares the idea of his death to an eclipse, which is merely a defect of vision, not the end of the sun. As further explained in Chapter 43, he chose to burn his body in the fire of Yoga and merge into the unmanifest, thus transcending what ordinary beings experience as death.