THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

and by nothing else. When this enlightenment occurs naturally the duality goes off for ever. Till
you experience duality you won’t be enlightened and once you experience the Brahma duality
expires for ever. In fact for the really knowledgeable duality or the lack of it are just imaginations
and nothing else. Now Shree Samarth goes into the details of the imagination.
Imagination creates the limitations and teaches how to go beyond
them. The art of thinking about the Brahma is nothing but a child of imagination. It is the origin of
both the duality and the knowledge. It is felt by us that we are bound or free of everything because
of imagination. If our imagination is faulty then we will think that the visible world is real whereas
if our imagination is true then we will have the transcendental enlightenment. It will make you
frightened one moment and the very next will remove that fright and yet will induce you to wonder
how this happened! In short imagination is almost as fast and ferocious as the mind.
It is the cause of our birth and also of the fruits we reap out of
worship to the extent of Moksha. If it is utilized for spiritual purposes it will yield eternal bliss or
else it will throw you in the deep ocean of grief. Imagination being the root cause of the origin of
the universe it has to be rooted out to get to the Parbrahma. Listening to the Guru, thinking deeply
over his preaching with utmost yearning to follow it at any cost makes your imagination turn away
from the visible to the abstract. Once you experience the pure Parbrahma and keep your wisdom
absolutely still in that state the imagination gets defeated and vanishes. The duality also obviously
thus vanishes. Shree Samarth tells us to beat the untrue imagination with the truer one. Once it
becomes the true form of imagination it itself remains in the Parbrahma and never allows you to
forget it.
Pure imagination always makes you think that there is no duality, the
only truth is the Parbrahma and the further imagination should be of the Parbrahma till eternity.
Those who possess the pure imagination are always unified with their own self, are unaware of the
duality and have fully acquired the knowledge of the pure Parbrahma. To maintain this state for
ever and to disallow it to be corrupted by the visible Shree Samarth advises us to listen to the
preaching of the Guru all the time. Finally he tells the disciples that the imagination which erupted
from your mind and made you visualize this duality is not your true self, the real you is far beyond
that. Are you satisfied now? To which the disciples say yes and Shree Samarth then says that they
should now concentrate on the next samas.
END OF THE FIFTH SAMAS
THE SIXTH SAMAS – BADDHAMUKTANIRUPAN
(EXPLANATION OF THE SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCE OF THE STATES OF BEING
BOUND AND THAT OF MUKTI)
The disciple said that you have described the Brahma where there is
no duality after listening to which I got unified with it for some time. I now want to remain in that
state for ever and not come back to the state where I have to think about this life because the bliss I
got in that state can never be had by any material or organic pleasures. But what happens is, when I
listen to you I get to the Brahma but when I go back home I again get entangled in my family life
and hence detached completely from the Brahma, I just can’t avoid it.
I am now fed up with this constant journey from the state of Brahma
to the state of being enveloped by the body mind intellect conglomerate. I feel that if I am able to