How should a devotee understand Sai Baba's physical death, especially when it feels like a profound loss?

According to the teachings in Chapter 43, a devotee should understand that for a being like Sai Baba, conventional notions of birth and death are merely false imaginations. The text describes him as the complete Supreme Brahman, for whom these concepts are irrelevant. His departure was not a death in the ordinary sense but a willful yogic act where he 'burned the body in the fire of Yoga' and 'merged himself into the unmanifest.' Therefore, what appears as a loss is actually a transition to his true, unmanifest state, from which he continues to keep his devotees spiritually awake. Chapter 43 compares the 'death' of saints to a solar eclipse, suggesting it is a limitation of our perception, not a true cessation of their being.