When a person comes to a Master, he must come with an open-minded outlook. Since He knows that all his actions hitherto, individual as well as social, have not so far secured him salvation, he should 
bid goodbye to them and ask the Master for His instructions in the matter of spiritual practices. 

Having obtained His instructions, he must then follow them scrupulously, and that alone should constitute his sole devotion. Whatever the Master ordains, that must be taken as word of God, no matter whether it stands the test of mere human reason or not. Our intellect and our reason, after all, are limited and cannot reach the depths to which the Master penetrates. He knows the why and wherefore of His instructions, and like a fully responsible Field Marshal issues His commands. We must therefore learn to obey him implicitly like a true soldier, and do what He bids. 

Mere lip loyalty to the Master never pays. The Master wants full devotion to what He says, for therein lies the ultimate good of the disciple. 

The words of the Master cannot be detached from the Master. It is from the abundance of the heart that the tongue speaks. The Master is embedded in the Word and His words are expressions of what is in Him; that is, Word, Life-impulse, and power. How then can the two be separated from each other? His words undoubtedly pierce through the hearts of the aspirants and none other can know the sweet pangs from which they suffer. 

The more one gives weight to the Master's words, the more he grows in grace. True devotion to the Master consists in acceptance of, and doing, what He commands. The thought of the Master should ever be a companion, no matter what we may be doing. The Master is hidden in His words, and His words are in fact the real Master. 

The Word of the Master ever abides with the initiates. No power on earth can snatch it away. Fire cannot burn it nor can water sweep it off. It is indestructible and immortal. It fathers the fatherless and protects us at every step. It strikes at the root of all doubt and skepticism. Even the angel of death cannot come near it. 

It is absolutely necessary to serve the will of the Master, for in doing so lies the good of the disciple. Many people indeed meet the Sadguru, but that is not enough. For salvation, one has to obey Him in thought, word and deed.