What is the book's perspective on Sai Baba's death? Is he really gone?

Chapter 43 presents the idea that Sai Baba's departure was not a death in the conventional sense. It describes death as a "false imagination" for avatars who incarnate for the welfare of devotees. The text explains that Sai Samarth, being the Supreme Brahman, is beyond birth and death. It suggests that what people perceive as his death is merely a "defect of vision," similar to an eclipse. As detailed in Chapter 43, when his task for the devotees was complete, he chose to merge himself into the unmanifest, burning his body in the "fire of Yoga." He remains eternally present, filling the entire world in his true form and residing in the hearts of his followers.