Whether one is an emperor or a king, no one can tread the Path without love. A high material position or exalted status cannot help a person enter or progress on the spiritual path.
But two days later, Baba appreciated Gandhi's sincerity and revealed about him:
Gandhi is the best man amongst the present-day political workers and public servants. He is quite sincere. He has no thought of any deception and is not mean-spirited in any of his actions. He has a fine mentality. [So much so that] he will realize God in his third life after this one, after 170 years. He will be one amongst some 300 others who will realize God by then.
On 13 February, while discoursing about the mind, sanskaras and the manner in which they work, Baba explained:
The process of spending old sanskaras and creating new ones applies to ordinary people, the masses of humanity. For those members of his circle, however, the Sadguru stops this creation of new sanskaras and gradually destroys the old ones. And when all the sanskaras are wiped away, Realization is immediately given.
The working of the minds of the members of a Sadguru's circle is like a wheel turning in only one direction for the wiping-off process; the working of the minds of other human beings is like a wheel turning first in one direction and then in the other, like the balance wheel of a watch or clock. In short, the total destruction of sanskaras, old and new, enables one to be ready for Realization.
Baba sketched a diagram of two circles, and arrows around them, illustrating his point, about the minds of ordinary people turning in two directions, back and forth, compared to the minds of a Perfect Master's circle members turning in only one direction.
As far as Realized beings are concerned, it is only those who come down after Realization for duty to the universe who understand and realize the workings of the world and the mind. Compared to ordinary persons, it is the same as a child who is given a mirror. What does the child do? He looks into it, and being quite ignorant and unconscious of his own image, tries to strike the other face in the mirror which he thinks belongs to another person.
Now a grown-up adult, whose senses are much more developed, would never behave like that. He would see the image of his own face in the mirror and would realize and understand that the self-image is reflected only because of the mirror, and that the image is false and himself real — existing.