What is the narrator's perspective on their own role in telling Sai's stories?

In Chapter 36, the narrator expresses significant humility regarding their role. They question their own authority to describe the infinite greatness of saints, asking, "What authority do I have?" The narrator believes they are merely an instrument, suggesting that the "playful Sai himself takes over and makes his own qualities heard by his devotees through someone." This perspective, as outlined in chapter 36, frames the speaker and listener as a "mere pretext" through which Sai fulfills the desires of his followers, thereby diminishing the ego of the narrator.