THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

transcendental. It is so near us and inside us too yet we can’t see it but it makes no difference to its
existence.
Shree Samarth says that this visible universe should first vanish from
our mind. Then one should totally believe that the whole nature along with one’s body is untrue.
This belief empowers one to have the enlightenment. The knowledge of the Brahma is totally
subjective in the sense that the experience of it can be had by only that person which he is unable to
describe. Yet he knows that it is the most truthful thing because he not only experiences it but
understands it too. He knows what sort and quality of that knowledge is. After crossing the stages
of being awake and seeing everything or the stage of dreaming or those of deep sleep one goes into
the stage where on one side he is aware of the presence of the Brahma and on the other knows that
there is the visible. But he knows where to keep his attention focused on to have the enlightenment
of the self exquisitely consistent. It is the state where you are witness to everything including your
body by keeping yourself totally aloof from all. Shree Samarth now tells the most important thing.
When you feel that you are the Atman and are not in any way connected to the visible you still
remain as a witness to that state. This feeling also should go wherein you will have final
renunciation and this is SCIENCE.
First lack of knowledge goes and there is the rise of real knowledge
which gives way to the science which merges with the Parbrahma which is the purest state.
Everything vanishes there and all the spiritual aspirants yearn for it. We should be enlightened with
it through our own experience.
END OF THE FOURHT SAMAS
THE FIFTH SAMAS – DWAITKALPANANIRASAN
(QUELLING THE DOUBT OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF DUALITY)
The disciple tells Shree Samarth that he has understood the purity of
the Brahma but he hasn’t been able to keep the mind away from thinking about the Maya. He says
that although inside him there is the luminescence of the Brahma outside he can’t avoid seeing the
creations of the Maya. He humbly requests Shree Samarth to tell the way to quell this duality
persisting inside him. Shree Samarth tells all that he will do that.
When the mind thinks about the Brahma it is a good thought and
when it does the same about the Maya it is a bad one. Here lies the origin of the duality. The state
where there is the knowledge of both the Maya and Brahma is that of being witness to all. The
question remains, “What to call that state where everything vanishes?”
As we have seen the mind which is the cause of all the chaos, is
untrue and when it too vanishes there remains no witness. In this state of being mindless both the
Maya and the lack of knowledge vanish and therefore the state of being a witness to the nonexistent
Maya too vanishes and also vanishes the feeling that I know everything. The place of the feeling is
taken over by the real knowledge where there is no place for mind, intellect and their
manifestations.
The really knowledgeable like the Saints, Sages and the Guru know
that the pure Brahma is far beyond all these. It can be had only through the enlightening experience