The text mentions the tiger might have been a person before. What does it say about the tiger's past life and karma?

Chapter 31 speculates that the tiger's fate was tied to past karma. It suggests the creature may have been a person in a previous life who, due to pride, insulted a devotee of Hari and was cursed to take on a cruel birth as a tiger. However, a counter-curse seems to have led it to Sai Baba's feet. Through Sai's darshan, its sins were burned away, the bonds of past karma were broken, and it was freed from its suffering, attaining salvation on its own.