THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

destruction. We foolishly consider the sculptures in the temples as God. God is there too but to see
him there you ought to have a different perspective of the vision given by the Guru and not your
eyesight. Yet the God though present in all the forms in the subtlest manner, still remains elusive
from his own creations as is the case with every creator. Therefore the contention that the reason
behind the creation and the creation are the same is untenable for the simple reason that the creation
has been done by the formless, shapeless and the unseen. Therefore one should never doubt the fact
that the creator of the universe is different from the universe. Therefore the laws applicable to all
the others aren’t to the creator, the God, the Parbrahma. We tend to forget this and therefore the
doubts.
The God is different from the mixture of the basic elements. The
visible universe is untrue and the only truth is the Atman. The Brahma or the Parbrahma is even
beyond that. The Atman is omnipresent in the entire universe but the Parbrahma is outside the
percepts of this. This is because of the forms that the Atman takes whereas the Parbrahma is
formless. Otherwise both are the same if you remove the forms and make it pure. The pure Atman
should be referred to as the God. Everything else is worthless. Another simple explanation which
Shree Samarth gives is the fact that all the things are destructible whereas only the Parbrahma is
indestructible and therefore it should be different from all else. That should be considered the real
God who is the only permanent thing amongst all the temporary ones. It is therefore foolish to say
anything relating to temporariness about the God. Birth, death, the so called happiness and grief, in
short everything that occurs in the universe is because of his powers, he is the reason behind it all
and therefore he has to be different from them. Nothing in anything mortal can be referred to as
God. This is beyond the comprehension and imagination of anyone except the Guru and therefore it
has to be understood under the guidance of the Guru otherwise all your efforts will be futile.
The disciples raised a doubt here. If the God or the Parbrahma is
without any properties and has no karma then how could he remain like that after performing the
karma of creating the universe? How to resolve this contradiction of the thing which is without
properties creating things with them? How to know who is the creator of this universe? How to
recognize him? Shree Samarth answers the query of how the mother of all illusions the Maya
originate in the Parbrahma in the next samas.
END OF THE FIRST SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – SOOKSHMA AASHANKANIRUPAN
(TRYING TO RESOLVE THE DOUBTS)
The disciples had asked how this universe full of life and lifeless
forms could originate from a formless abstract transcendental Parbrahma. Shree Samarth says that
this has to be resolved. The Parbrahma is the only truth and it is the only permanent thing. The
mother of all the illusions, the Maya originated from it as an illusory whirl which seems to be the
truth for all else but for the Parbrahma it isn’t there at all. This whirl is of the jaundiced view. The
view most of us have by which we are entrained to see only the nonexistent and neglect the
omnipresent, by which we feel that I am the body mind intellect conglomerate and not the Atman.
This occurs on account of the lack of real knowledge. This whirl is also the covering of the
Parbrahma by the clouds of illusion giving rise to the view of the nonexistent. The Parbrahma is the
ultimate state of Mukti, has no karma and is above everything, the greatest, biggest, highest, where