THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

experience the Brahma while listening to you I would better leave this body then and there only. Or
else this state of duality should go for ever. Till I reach this state I feel ashamed of talking about the
real knowledge and the Brahma. It also looks very odd to be unified with the Brahma for a while
and then to pursue the everyday life with all the efforts involving the body and mind going into that
which I really feel is a literal waste.
If anyone who has unified with the Brahma even for a little while and
yet comes back to his body mind intellect conglomerate I feel that his knowledge has been
incomplete. Either one should be unified with the Brahma or be in family life. If people like me get
to the Brahma by listening to your preaching and still go back to square one once I go home I feel
that I have neither gained anything in spirituality nor in the family life. In fact I feel that I am a
loser on both the counts. I am pulled by these totally opposite forces at every moment which has
really taken a heavy toll upon me. I am not only intimidated by this but highly confused too. I am
unable to decide whether to pursue the knowledge of the Brahma or pursue my family life. The
disciple then asks Shree Samarth to end this puzzle for him for once and for all, to which Shree
Samarth answers first in the form of a question which encompasses a very deep meaning hidden
inside. Is it that only those who left their mortal body in the state of unification with the Brahma
have acquired Mukti and the great Saints and Sages didn’t?
The disciple humbly tells the Guru that according to the Vedas only
Shuka and Vamdeo have acquired Mukti whereas others are still bound by the mind body intellect
conglomerate. Vedas can’t be challenged. Shree Samarth tells him that if your saying is to be
accepted then apart from these two all the great Saints, Sages, Rishis, Yogis, Siddha and those who
have acquired the final knowledge will have no place in the state of Mukti. What you have quoted
is not found in the Upanishads. Even if it is accepted for the sake of debate it implies that only two
of the greatest people on this earth have acquired Mukti whereas others are languishing in the
wilderness, including Lord Ram & Lord Krishna which is frivolous to say the least. Vedas have just
quoted their names to support the basic hypothesis or even rather to put the hypothesis in the first
place. Fools remember only words whereas the wise try to find out the meaning. They try to know
what the meaning is by reading between the lines to get to the truth. Otherwise if what you say is
accepted just on the face value of it then the Vedas will lose all their powers of illuminating one
and all who study them which can never ever be the case. The Vedas are so sacred; and I don’t say
this just because I have blind faith in them but I have experienced it and therefore I can say this
without any doubt, that they can’t contain anything even remotely away from the truth. You
haven’t read between the lines and therefore you are groping in the dark. It is none of the fault of
the Vedas. It is foolish to expect that one who has unified with the Brahma will forever remain in a
physical state which is just like the Brahma which incidentally doesn’t have any physical state at all
for the simple reason that he can’t do that physically till his mortal body departs. Even Shuka told
Bhagwat and the wisdom to recognize the state of soulfulness or that without it. If he had remained
like a lifeless log of wood he wouldn’t have been able to do that. It is wrong on our part to expect
that those who have unified with the Brahma don’t have to perform any karma. These people have
to think wisely while describing the Brahma for the sake of people like us. They have to find the
possible similes from this visible universe to describe the invisible, abstract and transcendental
Brahma for our sake due to the fact that we don’t understand anything unless it is told in the
context of what our senses perceive. While preaching, the Siddha who has attained Mukti has to
come out of his unification only physically to describe it whereas from deep within he never ever
loses his state of unification with the Brahma. Only he can do it and that is why he is called the
Siddha! It isn’t possible for all and sundry. The fact is, rather than lying in a state of lifeless log