THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

concentrated in one ultimate God are not different but are one. This is the one which controls
everything. One has to have the real knowledge and blessings of the Guru to fully understand and
comprehend this. This is also true when it is said that Maya is all pervading in the entire universe
though it isn’t the whole truth. This also has to be understood and comprehended with the real
knowledge and the blessings of the Guru.
Shree Samarth now turns towards the first doubt. How did the Maya
originate? It is something akin to hypnotism wherein nonexistent things are seemingly made
existent, but when one comes out of that state one realizes that experience as untrue. Shree Samarth
now takes the help of one of his favorite similes for making this most complicated subject
understandable to the disciples. The sky is the stillest thing that we see. From this stillest thing
originates the highly unstill thing, the wind. Despite this the sky doesn’t undergo any change in its
staidness. Not even the micros part of the sky is disturbed. In the same manner the Maya originated
in the Parbrahma without even slightly disturbing its nature. The wind originates from the sky and
hence it isn’t as old as the sky. The Maya also can’t be compared to the Parbrahma in this regard.
To add to it the wind finally disappears in the sky and the Maya too in the Parbrahma. Therefore
Maya having birth and death is untrue. We can feel the wind but can’t see it, the same applies to
Maya. One can see many a thing carried by the wind without getting to see the wind. With Maya
gaining an upper hand we can see many things but not the Maya. Just as the wind wraps things
around it and can change the shape and form of them so does Maya with the Parbrahma for those
who lack the real knowledge of the self. Most of us who fall in this category are thence apt to see
the Parbrahma without properties in the form of so many things with innumerable properties that is
the entire universe. We feel that the sky is covered by the clouds but in fact there is no change in
the sky, the illusion is created by our perception of the vision. Our vision or the view of life is
faulty which leads us to see all the temporary things wrapped by Maya but not the only permanent
thing, Parbrahma. The cause of this illusory universe seeming to be true is thus the wrapping put on
by the Maya and our ignorance of it and our sordid steadfastness not to get over this ignorance. We
see the sky and say that it is blue in color when in fact it is colorless. We feel that all the things in
the universe being seen in the sky must be within that sky defining its purview when the reality is
that the universe has an end yet the sky extends beyond that. It is free from everything and doesn’t
stick on to anything seen in it. The Parbrahma also seems to be containing everything, it does but it
is not bound to them, it doesn’t stick on to any of them and is totally, entirely and finally free of
them. Shree Samarth also gives the simile of the relative motion wherein he says that while the
chariot moves on, those sitting inside it feel that the whole earth is moving along with them when
in fact the earth is still and only the chariot is moving. We do realize this because it is easy to
understand, we don’t apply the same theory to the Parbrahma and the Maya because of our
stubbornness and inability to digest the only truth and also for the reason that it would require
inherently, the wisdom, prudence and the sense of urgency of a Sage or a Saint ready to practice
what he preaches which is by far the most difficult thing to do. Shree Samarth also gives the
example of how the diffraction of light can lead us to see things in a totally different shape and
form when in reality nothing has happened. The only thing is that you are on the wrong side of the
source of light. Exactly the same applies to the Parbrahma and our perception of it. If we see from
the side of the source we will never see any change in Parbrahma which is done by the Saints,
Sages and the Guru. Most of us see from the wrong side of it and thus are prone to see it in
different forms, shapes, colors etc. which falls within the spectrum of our so called vision. Needless
to say, that our vision being faulty we will only see the creations of Maya. We thus imagine
properties at the place of the Parbrahma and remain blissfully ignorant of its true nature which is