THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Brahma of livelihood. The power on which this Brahma rests is known as the Brahma of power.
The Brahma which knows this is the Brahma as a witness. A step ahead of this is the Brahma with
properties for this one stays as witness and therefore unnecessarily acquires the properties. Next is
the Brahma without properties which really is beyond words or speech. The Brahma which can be
described by speech is the Brahma of speech. The Brahma which can be experienced by
enlightenment is the Brahma of experience. The bliss which is inherent in the Brahma of
experience when felt by the attitude of the Sadhak is the Brahma of bliss. When the Sadhak totally
unifies with it, it becomes the Brahma of unification. Where the mind and speech have to go back
and disappear there lies the indescribable Brahma.
Shree Samarth says that to understand this in its entirety one should
firmly remember that Brahma or the Parbrahma is the only permanent thing and the Maya is a
highly temporary thing.
When the Brahma is tried to be explained by mere words without any
experience of it, it falls within the purview of Maya and hence this exercise is illusory for the
person trying to explain it by words and the one trying to understand it by listening to the words.
The Brahma of the original word also falls short of the real state of the Brahma for although the
word is the original word it still remains in the purview of the human imagination whereas the
Brahma is beyond any human imagination. The Brahma of the sky which contains the entire
universe isn’t the real Brahma for the reason that the sky is basically a big zero of vacuum which
disappears with the advent of the real knowledge. The visible universe is subject to destruction and
therefore the Brahma which pervades it all too meets the same fate. It is also destroyed at the time
of the final destruction of this universe. The principle behind this hypothesis of this type of Brahma
that all the things are the manifestations of the Brahma is absolutely right but it is unfortunately put
in a different perspective, the original Brahma which is highly stable and static and without
properties whereas the Brahma in this hypothesis is shown as something which can be seen in all
the things with the help of sensing the instabilities, constant movement and all the ascribable
properties which antagonizes the very concept and facts about the real Brahma. The really
knowledgeable don’t consider anything recognizable by form as the Brahma and we should not
only emulate them but also remember that whatever is created is destined to be destroyed. When
this type of Brahma is subject to destruction it goes without saying that the one who is able to see it
is also subject to destruction.
The Brahma of livelihood keeps the live forms alive and thence
visible which ultimately keeps the illusion alive and therefore this type of Brahma too is
unsustainable to the original theorem. The Brahma of power is based upon the imagination that the
senior would rule upon the junior, the owner on the servant, the rich on the poor, the mighty would
on the meek or the powerful on the weak but at the state of Parbrahma there is no such difference
and this remains only at the level of imagination. The Brahma of witness essentially requires
something to be witnessed and hence the presence of duality which is totally contradictory to the
concept of the Parbrahma. The Brahma with properties is itself subject to destruction for the simple
reason that whatever that can be described is finally destructible, one day or the other.
All the visible which can be described by properties and attributes is
in the perimeter of words. Where the properties are not there the words fall short. The Saints and
the knowledgeable say that the Maya responsible for the visible is akin to a mirage. The visible
universe thus is an illusion and being so wasn’t there anytime at all. Shree Samarth says that where
there is no place it is futile to describe its boundaries, where there is no birth it is meaningless to
say that there is a life form and the same is true for giving a simile of duality to a state where there