The texts mention both verbal advice and advice received as 'experience.' Which form of guidance was considered more beneficial for devotees?

The source material from Chapter 0 distinguishes between Shri Sai Baba's verbal teachings and the guidance devotees received through direct experience. While Maharaj gave ethical advice through stories, the text explicitly states that 'infinitely more valuable than this open verbal advice was the advice received from Maharaj in the form of experience.' It was this experiential guidance, according to Chapter 0, that brought the 'highest benefit' to the devotees who came to him with genuine faith. The ethical verbal advice served to purify the devotee, making them receptive to these more profound, experience-based lessons.