I find it hard to accept that Sai Baba is gone. How does the Satcharitra explain his Mahasamadhi to offer comfort?

Chapter 43 offers a comforting perspective on Sai Baba's passing, reframing it not as an end, but as a transformation. The text suggests that the death of saints is like a solar eclipse—a defect in our vision, not the end of the sun itself. It explains that Sai Samarth, being a great Yogi, could die at will and chose to merge his form into the unmanifest by burning the body in the fire of Yoga. The purpose of this was to remain forever in the hearts of his devotees. The chapter reassures us that he who was imprinted in devotees' hearts cannot be said to have perished and that by merely remembering his name, all notions of birth or death disappear.