What is the Satcharita's perspective on Sai Baba's death? Does it say he actually died?

Chapter 43 of the Shri Sai Satcharita presents a profound view on Sai Baba's passing, suggesting it was not a death in the ordinary sense. The text questions who would believe that he simply "left the body," explaining that for a great Yogi like Sai Samarth, this was a voluntary act. He is described as having burned his body in the fire of Yoga and merged himself into the unmanifest, his previous state. This event is likened to a solar eclipse, which is merely a "defect of vision" for the observer. The Satcharita asserts that Baba is beyond death and his body was just an adjunct; his true self, a mass of consciousness, remains imprinted in the hearts of devotees and fills the entire world.