The Patil's healing involved violent dreams of being beaten and crushed. How does Chapter 13 interpret this strange and painful experience as a form of Sai Baba's grace?

Chapter 13 interprets the Patil's violent dreams not as a mere illusion but as a paradoxical reality through which Sai Baba's grace operated. The text acknowledges the strangeness of the events—a teacher breaking the Patil's back with a cane and a man crushing his chest with a grinding stone. However, it immediately points out that the result was "clearly beneficial." The suffering experienced in the dream directly led to the destruction of his real-world disease and relief from sorrow. The narrative frames this as an "inconceivable and unfathomable novelty" of Baba Sai, suggesting that His methods are beyond ordinary human comprehension. The painful punishment was, in fact, the compassionate act of healing, demonstrating how saints can use mysterious means to grant grace and even turn back time.