THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

without any properties. Maya being the creator of the mind is faster than it and therefore difficult to
catch but it manifests itself through its creations. These are as temporary as their creator, the Maya.
All these creations of Maya including the Maya being temporary can by no fancy of imagination be
even thought to be remotely capable of disturbing the originality of the Parbrahma in any slightest
way which stays as it was, and is forever, literally meaning every letter of the word. The Maya is
not thus a part of the Parbrahma on any count. The original whirl emanating from the Parbrahma
leading to the creation of the Maya is in the form of the wind which in fact signifies the origin of
the life forms. This also is in the form of the first sound in the universe the “Om”. The five basic
elements are inside the Om in the form of seedlings. Because of the power of the wind the micro
elements take a macro form. Hence all this is inherently present in the original Maya. Sky and the
wind are present in the Maya. Strength is the property of the luminescence. The feeling that I am
alone and should express in many got the desired strength thus. This strength is soft for all and that
is the origin of the water. Without the earth all these would have no place to go and thence the earth
or the solid matter of the universe was created. All these five basic elements are interdependent and
their mixture in various proportions gives rise to this entire universe. In the beginning and after the
end of all these illusions the Parbrahma is there in its original form, whatever changes that occur,
occur at the level of the creations of the Maya.
Shree Samarth has exquisitely dissected out the most difficult part
spiritualism for easier understanding of the commoners. He further says that to see the Parbrahma
you have to have a vision which can see the abstract, the transcendental which can be given only by
the Guru; otherwise it is well nigh impossible. Our senses are so weak that let alone getting to
know the inner core of all the visible we are unable to even know the wholly macro outer cores.
That is why we see the things as they are really not. The illusion though primarily created by Maya
we increase it many a folds through the use of our incapable senses. One has to first shut these
senses which are hopelessly incapable of delivering any information about anything, not in the least
the Parbrahma. Only when one is able to that there is any chance of getting anywhere near the
Parbrahma. Shree Samarth has made one of the most difficult aspects of the spirituality simpler for
our comprehension, as he has done about many others throughout the Dasbodha.
Here the disciples raise another doubt. When the original Maya too
was in pure form at the time of its whirl emanating from the Parbrahma, how were the five basic
elements created from it? The answer of this is provided in the next Samas.
THE END OF THE THIRD SAMAS
THE FOURTH SAMAS – SOOKSHMAPANCHBHOOTENIRUPAN (EXPLANATION OF
THE FIVE BASIC ELEMENTS)
The original Maya which emanated from the Parbrahma gave rise to
the Maya, the mother of all the illusions; which in turn produced the basic three properties. They
are the virtues (and/or) wisdom, being unwise, and the vices. From the vices were created the five
basic elements which then proliferated. If the original Maya is beyond properties too, how it gave
rise to the three basic properties leading to the creation of the five basic elements was the original
doubt raised by the disciples.
Another point of conjecture is the fact that all these five basic
elements are thoroughly mixed with one another so that you will find the rest of the four in each
one it. If one thinks very minutely with application of wisdom then one can find that the five basic