If Sai Baba is so powerful, why does he need a narrator to tell his stories instead of just manifesting them himself?

According to Chapter 36, the use of a narrator is a form of Sai Baba's divine play, or leela. The text explains that the speaker and listener are merely a 'pretext' and that it is Sai Baba himself who 'takes over and makes his own qualities heard by his devotees through someone.' The narrator acknowledges this, questioning their own authority and recognizing that the ego of the speaker is set aside. This process is not a limitation of Sai's power but a method he employs because 'He loves his own stories very much' and uses them to fulfill the desires of his devotees and purify the participants.