THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

By listening to the preaching of the Guru your, doubts are erased,
feeling of yourself is gone, vices disappear, power of thinking and implementation is increased and
your psyche is changed. The mind can be controlled, the conglomerate vanishes, many problems
and dangers are avoided, the things you strive for are done very easily, it becomes easy to go into
Samadhi, the preparation for getting the ultimate bliss is done, the wisdom of realizing what is the
Atman and what is not never leaves you and you become easily unified with the ultimate.
It increases our knowledge, ingenuity and decreases the desire to
acquire organic pleasures. By listening to the preaching of the Guru you know how to, have correct
thoughts, reach the Brahma as a Sadhak, use your intellect, apply wisdom, vanquish the
conglomerate and turn it towards the Lord, how to avoid the company of the unwise and vicious,
conquer the desires, awaken the intuition, approach the Brahma and the Moksha, acquire bliss,
become thoughtless yet fully knowledgeable, swim this horrific ocean of the human life, worship
the Lord, apply the wisdom in either the path of family life or the spiritual life.
It is common knowledge that we don’t understand things without
anybody superior to us telling them. The human effort should start only after listening to the people
who matter. Our doubts get cleared by listening and therefore it is one of the most important
aspects of Sadhana. Shree Samarth goes to the extent of saying that it is the best form of Sadhana as
it lends credence to all the truths in the entire universe as nothing else can for the fact that our
psyche is such that when we listen to the authorities we tend to believe them and do things which
otherwise we would never do. That is the importance of listening to the preaching of the Guru.
It heralds Vairagya. It turns the bound into those who want to tread
on the path of attaining Brahma and them into Sadhak. The Sadhak is turned into a Siddha. They
are endowed with the knowledge of the self.
Listening to the preaching has the power to turn a vicious man into
the most virtuous and pious. It is difficult to describe what listening to the preaching of the Guru
can do. If you understand the importance of the real listening, then your fortune will change for the
good even without your knowledge and without you doing anything for it.
Listening doesn’t simply mean hearing, you should be able to
decipher the meaning of it and imbibe it too. Then you are inclined to act accordingly which can
lead to the enlightenment of the self which removes all the doubts which is the cause of the vicious
cycle of birth and death.
Shree Samarth says that like Sadhana even the Siddha has to
continuously listen to the preaching of the religious scriptures and his Guru, otherwise he is liable
to lose his position, acquired after yeoman efforts. If that is the case with the Siddha less said the
better about the bound. He also says that just as we can’t sustain our body by eating or drinking just
once but have to do these things every now and then, same is true for listening to the preaching and
doing the Sadhana. Those who avoid it out of idleness are the ultimate losers.
END OF THE EIGHTH SAMAS