You claim Sai Baba himself wrote this story, and the author was 'merely a pretext.' Isn't that just a convenient way for the author to avoid responsibility for the content and elevate its status by attributing it to a divine source?

According to the provided text, Sai Baba himself declared that he would be the one to write his own story, using the author as a medium. As described in Chapter 2, Sai Baba's specific instruction was, 'He is merely a pretext; I myself shall write my own story!' This divine assistance was conditional upon the author's complete surrender and dissolution of ego. The text clarifies that when the ego is dissolved with no trace remaining, Sai Baba himself would 'enter with 'I-ness' and write with my own hand.' Therefore, the work is attributed not to the author's invention but to the one to whom it belongs, with the human author simply being the chosen instrument for the task.