The source mentions Amir felt his stay in the Chavadi was like a prison. Why did he feel this way, and what was the outcome of him acting on this feeling?

Amir Shakkar's stay in the Chavadi felt like a prison because he was confined to one place for nine months and was even forbidden from visiting the Masjid for Sai Baba's vision. As explained in Chapter 22, the human mind naturally desires freedom and dislikes dependency. Despite the internal benefit of being close to Sai, the external reality of confinement eventually wore on Amir, leading to the thought, 'Enough of this prison!' Acting on this impulse, he abandoned his post without Baba's permission and went to Kopergaon. The immediate consequence described is that he stayed in a Dharmashala and encountered a dying Fakir who asked him for water.