Was Sai Baba's physical body susceptible to illness and mortality in the same way a normal person's is?

Chapter 43 clarifies that for a saint like Sai Baba, the body is merely an 'adjunct,' and it questions how mental or physical illness could truly affect them. While acknowledging that illnesses might arise due to past karma, it states that the saint would have no awareness of them. The text posits that death is the nature of the physical body, but for Sai Baba, who is a 'mass of bliss' and the Supreme Brahman, body-consciousness is absent. His actions are a 'spontaneous play of Yoga' for his devotees' salvation. Therefore, while his physical form was a temporary vessel, his true self was untouched by its limitations, allowing him to 'die at will' and burn the body in the fire of Yoga, as described in Chapter 43.