What specific requests does the author make to Sai Baba in their prayer for spiritual progress in Chapter 26?

Within the heartfelt prayer in Chapter 26, the author makes several specific requests to Sai Baba for spiritual advancement. The primary pleas are for Baba to make the author's intellect turn inward, to bestow the power of discrimination between the eternal and the temporary, and to foster a deep devotion to detachment. Going further, the author asks Baba to completely take away their body-consciousness and sense of 'me-ness' or ego. This ultimate surrender is captured in the request for Baba to move them like a puppet according to His will, showing a profound desire to eradicate the self and live entirely through the Guru's grace.