If Sai Baba states his own body is perishable, what is the justification for worshipping him and why does the author advocate for it?

The text from Chapter 3 addresses this apparent contradiction by drawing a distinction between the physical and the eternal. While Baba acknowledges, "Sai's body is perishable," he immediately clarifies that "the Brahman is imperishable and worthy of worship." He explains that his true nature is the all-pervading Brahman, the eightfold nature (Ashtadha-prakriti) that constitutes the entire universe. The purpose of devotion and reading the stories, as the author describes, is to use the memory of the physical form (Sagun) to imprint it on the heart, leading to devotion, detachment from the world, and eventual meditation on Baba's true, imperishable nature as the Soul itself.