THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

WHY HAS SHREE SAMARTH GIVEN UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO THE GODDESS OF
KNOWLEDGE
The Goddess of knowledge is nothing but the original Maya. There
are two types of ways in which one can look at the world, one is the self oriented and the other one
is all pervasive. In the first type one sees himself as something different than the world and hence
the world also is a different entity for him. The funny part in this is that both the viewer and the
viewed are possessing power although illusory. In the nonliving matter the power manifests itself in
the form of fire, electricity, sound, light etc. In the living matter it manifests in the form of life,
thought, ideas, lust, longing etc. Although the ill knowledgeable can see the work being done
through all these manifestations of power he can’t see the power itself because he is blind to it as he
is a follower of hypothesis of dual existence of the Atman and the body. Those who follow the
hypothesis of single existence are able to see it as they know that this power is nothing but yet
another form of the Goddess of knowledge which is the cause of the existence of this universe. She
exists in all the living and the non living and gets the work done. When one tries to get over all this
and starts the pursuit of the real knowledge he reaches a certain stage where he has to forget that he
is in existence otherwise his pursuit stops and ends. At this precise time the Goddess of knowledge
herself helps that person in his pursuit. This is experienced by all of those who really get after the
real knowledge. Spiritualism is in fact a play of the Goddess of knowledge. She helps the disciple
during all the problems in the form of the Guru. Keeping her in mind at all the times is the life of
Sadhana. She takes care of the saints like their mother and that is why the saints are so fearless. She
is the continuous source of energy for them. Hanuman is the live form of the power of Lord Ram
and that is why in all the aspects of the life of Shree Samarth, Hanuman occupies a special place.
Shree Samarth is considered to be a reincarnation of Hanuman and by this very fact we should be
able to gauge the power of Shree Samarth.
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE
Shree Samarth says that there are two types of people in this world;
those who are knowledgeable and those who lack knowledge. There are two subcategories of the
people who lack knowledge. The first one is of those who aren’t oriented to their real self at all
which consists of people who are foolish, full of vices and idle and the second are oriented to their
real self yet are bound by limitations which comprises of men and women who are wise, devoted,
dutiful, worship the divine and are full of virtues. What we call as knowledge in various fields is
not knowledge, knowledge in spiritualism or in reality is the knowledge about the self, all else is
but an illusion.
When the feeling that I am a body gives way to the feeling that I am
Parbrahma one is transformed in to the state of having the real knowledge, but when this feeling