What is the significance of the story where Baba sends the author to Shama for Dakshina? It seems like a simple errand.

This event, described in Chapter 18, is much more than a simple errand; it's a profound lesson in discipline. After sensing the narrator's troubled and envious thoughts, Baba compassionately sent him to Shama for fifteen rupees Dakshina as a pretext. While waiting for Shama, the narrator chanced upon the Nath Bhagawat book. As mentioned in Chapter 18, the book opened exactly to the portion he had lazily neglected to read that morning. He then realized that Baba had orchestrated this entire event to make him complete his reading and enforce the importance of regular spiritual discipline.