Devotees of Sai Baba, like Kasinath have received directives from him. They are told to adopt the process of mentally conceiving Sainath. Sainath should be envisioned as being inside each creature they meet.
For instance, a young man went out at night and under a tree saw an evil spirit or ghost, and hastily returned. Baba the next day asked him, what he saw. The young man answered. ‘I saw an evil spirit’. Baba said “No, It was I’. The person answered again that he saw an evil spirit.
Then Baba said “Go to your mother and ask her”. The man went to his mother. She told him that Baba (being God) is in every creature, whether evil or good spirit. Therefore, ‘Baba wants you to remember that He is in everything and that you need not fear anything‘.
Similarly, when Baba passed away from his body in 1918, one Lakshmi was praying. She said, “Baba, should you not show yourself to me?”
She came out in the dark from the Mosque. On her way, there was a snake. Immediately, she asked, “Baba, if you come to me in this form of a snake, what should I do?” Despite being terrified by the snake’s form, she saw Baba within it. She prayed to the snake, picturing Baba. This is the practice commended by Baba.
If you dip yourself by laya (brought to the wave length of) in God constantly, then you feel that you are part and parcel of God- BG XI (9) 22-23.
Similarly everything is part and parcel of God. The dog, the snake, and everything are manifestations of that sacred force. You call this sacred force your God. If so realized, it will really react on you like God only.
If you suddenly see a snake , No other Go, then Worship it as God, and it will not bite you.
Similarly stand before an evil spirit and say: “Thou art Brahman’. The evil spirit will not harm you.
The very moment you are thinking that everything is God, your spirit is part of God. You cease to be your body. No harm can befall you.
This is the most valuable teaching and training that Baba gave under this heading of Cosmic feeling of Godhood
"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 