What specific requests does the author make to Sai Baba in Chapter 26, and what do they reveal about the ideal state of a devotee?

In Chapter 26, the author makes a series of deeply personal and surrender-filled requests to Sai Baba. The devotee prays for their intellect to be turned inward, to be endowed with the ability to discriminate between the eternal and the temporary, and to be devoted to detachment. The prayer intensifies with the plea for Baba to take away body-consciousness and the experience of pleasure or pain, asking to be moved according to Baba's will 'like a puppet.' The author goes as far as asking Baba to become their very 'me-ness' and to lay their ego at His feet. As Chapter 26 articulates, this demonstrates the ideal state of a devotee: one of complete and unshakeable faith, where personal will is entirely subsumed by the Guru's grace and guidance.