THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

the wisdom which has to be blessed by the Guru and there is then immediate gain of the Moksha.
All the thoughts and their provocations and the inherent grief accompanying them vanish within no
time. The Sadhak should know that this life is like a bad dream and try to wake up from the sleep
which is responsible for the dream. Once he does that the Guru is there to hand over the secret of
Moksha at once. Shree Samarth says that only the awakening is needed (It is easier said than done
and nobody knows it better than Shree Samarth himself) and then there is no need of other types of
Sadhana. He then tells the other highly secret truth, there is nothing like being bound or being
Mukta at the state of the soul, and it is the property of the body, akin to having birth and death. He
again stresses on the importance of using the wisdom all the time to drive away the provocations
for showing the mind body intellect conglomerate the door and ends this samas.
END OF THE SEVENTH SAMAS
THE EIGHTH SAMAS – ATMADARSHAN (VISUALIZING THE SELF)
Shree Samarth says that he has told the fact that You are the
Parbrahma many a times. Here he tells one more important thing and that is, the Parbrahma being
not bound by anything there is no question of freedom from any binding that is Mukti or Moksha. It
is not amenable to understanding by thought but is highly attainable by unconditional worship.
Shree Samarth has already told us about the nine types of worship. From amongst those the best is
the submission of yourself wholly to the God. It encompasses all the secrets of the worship. It is
totally related to your own self and is a subject which has to be experienced by you. If you submit
your whole self to the God then you will be awarded Mukti by him immediately. This submission is
though easier said than done.
The first thing to be done is to search who and what I am. Once you
know that you go further and search for the Parbrahma which is absolutely without any properties.
One has to start looking for how is the God, how are the worshippers and what is the
interrelationship between them which yields the knowledge that the God is permanent whereas the
worshipper is temporary. Once the God is recognized the worshipper unifies with the God. He too
becomes unbound and Mukta. The differences between the God and the worshipper dissolve. Both
disappear in the Parbrahma where there is total lack of duality. The beauty of realization of the self
by the self is that it accrues complete unification with the Parbrahma and the highest form of Mukti.
One who unconditionally and totally submits to the Guru and who
comprehensively imbibes his preaching of the lack of duality experiences that he is the Parbrahma
and becomes the Parbrahma himself. It is then not possible to separate him from the Parbrahma.
The worshipper becomes the God in all the aspects. The Sadhak who understands this and knows it
thoroughly is automatically drawn on the path of the Moksha, rather the Moksha awaits him.
On the other hand if we cling to the feeling that I am the body we
have to suffer all the grief that is associated with the body. The disciple then asks him how to be
freed of this mind body intellect conglomerate, how to acquire the Parbrahma and what are the
signs of the richness of its acquisition? Shree Samarth says that the only way to be freed of the
troublesome conglomerate is to neglect it completely and always feel that you aren’t that but the
Parbrahma all the time all the while. Once you attain that state you will develop repulsion to your
own conglomerate. This wisdom of the realization of the self confers on the Sadhak the state which
is praised even by the Vedas. For this achievement you should always follow what the Saints and