THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Shree Samarth asks us to identify the five basic elements, search for
the Parbrahma and find out the real self which leads to unification with the Parbrahma. It is futile to
talk about it, rather you should keep mum and think and meditate about it. When you finally unite
with it only then you realize why even the Mother Shruti says it is neither like this nor like that.
Once you have this experience it is foolish to apply any hypotheses or thoughts to it as it again
lands you in the pride of your conglomerate which is a sign of lack of knowledge.
Both the female and the male genders inherent in the original Maya
dissolve in the enlightening experience of the self and therefore there remains no place for them at
the place of the Parbrahma not to think of the proud me. It is akin to a person keeping mum and
saying that he is doing it (Which is a contradiction in its own). Therefore Shree Samarth advises
that we should strive for and experience the transcendental without allowing our wordless state to
be disturbed and remaining alien even while doing everything. You shouldn’t look different from
others but from within you should always be in constant contact with the experience of the self.
END OF THE SECOND SAMAS
THE THIRD SAMAS – NISSANDEHNIRUPAN (DISCUSSING DOUBTLESSNESS)
After listening to the last samas the disciples ask a query, how is it
possible to be there from outside but not involved in anything from within? What we see is that
even if a man is really knowledgeable he has to undergo all the problems and grief. Does it not
affect his psyche?
Shree Samarth says that whatever you say is correct on your part
because one thinks according to one’s own experiences. Your lack of knowledge forces you to
think like this. The state in which a really knowledgeable person lives can only be understood by
the same type of person. The greatness of the knowledgeable is in his experience of the
transcendental which is a state deep within and therefore to understand him you will also have to
know about that state. He has no feeling that he is the conglomerate; he is always united with the
Parbrahma and never separates from it.
The knowledge of the Saints or the Guru resides in the conglomerate
yet it never sticks to it and there is no place for the lack of knowledge at any given time at his state
therefore from his bodily form no one can imagine about his knowledge but once he decides to part
with his body his knowledge too disappears from others’ point of view. He also is freed from the
cycle of birth and death whereas those who lack the knowledge keep on revolving in the cycle.
Shree Samarth says that your doubts which you had raised in the
beginning should now be resolved and if they aren’t still then I will give you a simple example. A
blind person perceives according to his imagination which is apt to go awry many a time which has
precisely happened with you while thinking about the knowledgeable and his life.
END OF THE THIRD SAMAS