Sadguru is a beacon light that sheds the light of Truth on the tumultuous sea of life, to guide yearning humanity. He may be likened to a live switch that has behind it the entire energy of the powerhouse, but doles it out in such measure as may be needed by each individual according to his or her requirements. While living in the world, He is not of the world, nor He a prisoner in the prison of the body, as we are. He is a free entity and at will crosses over into spiritual realms and is competent to grant this power and capacity to thousands of jivas, if He so wishes. A living Master of Truth is one with Truth, and has in Him Truth in fullness, whereby He carries on the work of salvation entrusted to Him. 

In spite of His form, He is formless. He is Word personified, a great fountainhead of love, bliss and peace. Man has to learn from man and, in accordance with this natural law, Word becomes flesh and dwells among us to impart spiritual instruction and guidance. Again, by transmitting His own life impulse He enables us to go homeward. While doing this work among us, He every day at His sweet will escape to His heavenly abode of Truth, so as to take rest in imperishable bliss. 

With all our paeans in praise of the Master, we can never do justice to Him; for He existed when nothing was and from Him everything came into being at each cycle of creation. God and Godman are indeed just like a sea and its tides. Momentarily as the tides rise and fall, they appear as something different, but they are of the same essence as the water of the parent sea. Exactly the same is a drop of water. When separated from the sea it is a drop, but the moment it goes into the sea, it loses its apparent individuality and becomes part and parcel of the sea. God is formless, while in Godman He assumes form for instruction and guidance of the people. 

Generally, thousands of people congregate around a Sadguru and listen to His discourses, but each one sees Him according to His own mental and spiritual make-up. Some consider Him as a person of piety; some take Him for a philosopher, and some as just a man of learning. Others regard Him as an ideally moral man, and still others as a selfless worker. Rare indeed are the jivas who find God in Him. Thus each one finds in Him a reflection of what he Himself actually is or wishes to become, and so gets from Him that quality, for He distributes to each what he merits. As a man in physical raiment His foremost duty, of course, is man-making; and as God personified it is revealing or manifesting God. So it all depends on one's own preparedness through the ages. Blessed indeed is the man who is ready for immediate transformation into God, for to such an individual He at once reveals His Godhood; as Krishna revealed his oneness with Kal to Arjuna, when through ignorance he hesitated to perform his duty as a Kshatriya prince. 

A blind man cannot see one with eyes nor can he take hold of him, unless the man with sight compassionately takes him by the hand and leads him aright. Similarly, no one can see in a Master the Master of Truth or Truth itself lodged in him unless He reveals His real self to him. Even those who constantly live with Him, including His close relatives, can seldom recognize in Him the hidden Godhead. Without the gift of special merit one can never know of the really intrinsic nature of a Saint. He who can see and recognize God in Him has indeed found God, for He not only resides in him but manifestly works through him. 

He is the pole from where the power of God shines forth and works out the Divine Will.