The source mentions Sai helps devotees with their difficulties. Did this help involve telling someone like Balasaheb Deo to feed a black dog to solve their problems?

The provided text from Chapter 41 does not contain any story about Sai instructing a devotee to feed a black dog. Instead, it focuses on Sai's loving nature towards those with a true inclination for spiritual matters. The chapter uses the example of Balasaheb Deo to illustrate this point. Deo's difficulty was not a worldly problem but a spiritual one: he desperately wanted to read the Dnyaneshwari daily but was consistently unable to do so due to various obstacles. The text explains that Sai helps ward off such difficulties for his devotees, giving them the company of self-bliss.