Who were the types of people that visited Sai Baba, and did his advice against fasting apply to everyone, even renouncers?

An incredibly diverse array of people came to Shirdi for Sai Baba's darshan. Chapter 32 mentions that his court attracted astrologers, kings, yogis, householders, renouncers, sannyasis, the sick, the healthy, pilgrims, singers, and even Maulvis. His teaching against fasting was a universal principle applied to all who came to him. The text states that Baba himself never fasted and "wouldn't let anyone else remain fasting either." This indicates that the rule was not dependent on a person's station or background, whether they were a householder or a renunciate. His intervention in Mrs. Gokhale's plan to fast further underscores that this protective principle extended to all of his devotees.