One devotee felt that Mr. Sathe received spiritual fruit with little effort. What does the text say about this and Baba's view on reading the Guru Charitra?

The narrator of the events in Chapter 18, who was massaging Baba's feet, expresses a feeling of wonder and questions how Sathe could receive such a great reward after only one seven-day reading. While the text doesn't record Baba's direct response to this unvoiced thought, Baba's preceding words provide the context for his view. He ordered Sathe to do another reading, emphasizing that the 'Parayana of this book' is a path to purity, welfare, pleasing God, and breaking worldly bonds. This implies that the act of sincere devotional reading itself is a powerful and effective practice for any devotee.