I heard Sai Baba told Kashiram to always feed animals. Is that why he was carrying that bundle when the robbers attacked him?

While Sai Baba's teachings often involved compassion, the source material specifies a different origin for Kashiram's practice. According to the account in Chapter 0, Kashiram carried a bundle of powdered sugar not because of an instruction from Sai Baba, but because another saint, named Janakidas Baba, had advised him to feed sugar to ants. This advice was so important to Kashiram that he was willing to fight robbers to protect his bundle of sugar, demonstrating his reverence for Janakidas Baba's words.