Sai Baba is quoted as saying, "I myself shall write my own story," yet the book is clearly attributed to Hemadpant. Who is the actual author, and why is there this deliberate confusion?

The authorship of the work is explained in Chapter 2 as a collaborative, divine process rather than a point of confusion. Sai Baba clarifies this by stating, "He is merely a pretext; I myself shall write my own story!" This means that Hemadpant is the physical scribe, but the true author is Sai Baba, working through him. The condition for this divine intervention was Hemadpant's complete surrender of his ego. As Sai promised, "When the ego is dissolved... I myself shall enter with 'I-ness' and write with my own hand." Therefore, the attribution to Hemadpant at the end of each chapter serves to identify the human instrument, while the narrative itself makes it clear that the ultimate origin of the work is divine.