Why was the tiger's death considered a form of salvation instead of just a sad event?

The tiger's death was seen as a profound act of salvation because of the spiritual context in which it occurred. Chapter 31 explains that leaving the body before a saint's eyes is a supreme joy and the highest form of redemption, freeing the soul from all its sins. The text speculates that the tiger was a meritorious person in a past life who had been cursed into that "cruel birth." Its death before Sai was interpreted as the fulfillment of a "counter-curse" through Sai's darshan, which burned away its sin and broke the karmic bonds of suffering. Therefore, it was not merely a death but a divinely arranged liberation from a painful existence and the cycle of rebirth, an event only possible through great fortune.