What was wrong with Amir Shakkar and what did Sai Baba tell him to do about it?

Amir Shakkar was afflicted with severe rheumatism and approached Sai Baba seeking a remedy for his suffering. As narrated in Chapter 22, after Amir detailed his illness, Baba's prescribed cure was simple yet profound: he was to stay steadily in the Chavadi. This instruction was not accompanied by any physical medicine; Baba's word itself was the treatment. Despite the Chavadi being a dilapidated and uncomfortable place, Amir was to reside there for nine months, accepting this directive as the path to deliverance from his sorrow.