What events transpired in the two weeks leading up to Sai Baba's passing and in the hours immediately after?

As detailed in Chapter 44 of the Shri Sai Satcharitra, Sai Baba, knowing his end was near, undertook a specific spiritual observance. For fourteen days and nights, he had a Brahmin read the Ramayana to him, and he listened with focused contemplation. This period concluded on the day of Vijayadashami, when he passed away. Immediately after his breath left his body, worship and aarti were performed by his devotees. What followed was a twenty-six-hour period of deliberation between Hindu and Muslim followers on how to perform the final rites and where the Samadhi, or tomb, should be located.