But if I were to make a 1,000-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
The blessing, sight, word and image of a Sadguru are very weighty, so what can we say about his actual contact and company? He is the luckiest person who has the chance of sitting beside him, talking with him and listening to his discourses. It is such an important thing that you will never fully understand it. Though, in comparison with the world, you find yourselves in a difficult situation, this is still the only definite and easy way; it is the way by which the Sadguru takes you toward emancipation and frees you from the net of maya.
You take food with your mouth, digest it and pass the excrement through your rectum. You know this. But does a stone know what is a mouth and what is a rectum? You would never try to eat with your rectum; it would be despicable to try to do such a thing. In the same way, the Sadguru knows perfectly the path by which to take you toward God-realization. So he knows what sort of "food" you should eat, when to give it and where to give it. You, yourself, do not have the slightest idea about this kind of thing, and in this respect you are no better than stones!
Once you catch hold of the Sadguru's feet, you must try your hardest to hold on to them and not let them slip from your grasp. Only then are you safe.
God is in the right hand of the Sadguru; maya is in the left. God-realization is in his right foot, and miracles [in illusion] are in the left foot. If his right heel is pressed down, the Om Point is directly affected. If a Sadguru places his right hand on the head of someone, intending to bestow on him God-realization, that person receives it instantly.
At Shahane's house the following day, 20 May, Baba further explained to the mandali about the external signs of a Sadguru's internal work:
When a Sadguru's right hand and right foot are active, it signifies spiritual help for the person concerned to aid him in realizing God. Similarly, his left hand and left foot denote material happiness or miracles. For those who have faith in a Sadguru, miracles happen automatically through the medium of maya.