What does the story of Sapatnekar reveal about the nature of Sai Baba's consciousness and power?

The story of Sapatnekar illustrates Sai Baba's divine omniscience and his nature as the inner self of all beings. By narrating Sapatnekar's entire life story, Baba demonstrated that everything was as clear to him as a "gooseberry in the palm of the hand." Chapter 48 uses this incident to explain that Baba is the form of Brahman and that the entire universe is his family. For him, there is no duality of "mine" and "thine" because he has manifested as the universe itself. This event proved to Sapatnekar that Baba was a "great knower of the inner self," one who is merged with the Supreme Being and for whom the distinctions of seer, seeing, and seen do not exist.