On Guru Purnima, the author directly petitioned Sai Baba for a new job. How did Baba react to this direct plea for financial help?

According to the account in Chapter 3, the author did not directly petition Sai Baba for a new job. The request was made on his behalf by another devotee, Anna Chinchonikar. The text mentions that Anna "spontaneously requested Baba" out of his own concern for the author's financial situation after retirement. Anna was the one who pleaded with Baba to find the author another job. Sai Baba responded to Anna's recommendation by assuring him that the author would be taken care of, but that his focus should now be on performing "my service." The author himself was a pretext for this teaching, not the one who made the direct plea.