What does Sai Baba say about his own nature and how devotees should perceive him?

Sai Baba explains that he is not limited to his physical body. In Chapter 19, he clarifies his omnipresent nature by stating, "In water, land, wood, and region; among people, in the forest, in the country and abroad; I am pervaded in light and sky; I am not limited to one place." He says he took a physical form of "three and a half cubits" specifically to help devotees overcome the doubt that he is confined to that body. Furthermore, he emphasizes a non-dual relationship with his true devotees, comparing it to the inseparability of jaggery from its sweetness or the ocean from its waves. He considers those who worship him with a desireless and undivided heart to be his "very self," illustrating a profound unity between the devotee and the divine.