THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE FOURTH SAMAS – JANPANNIRUPAN
(DISCUSSION OF THE RIGHT WAYS OF KARMA)
The disciple asks we see so many types of people on this earth with
so many differences, why is it so? Shree Samarth says that this is the result of their virtues and
vices. If you do things correctly you are bound to succeed and if you neglect the important aspects
then you are bound to fail. You have to work hard for success. You have to have knowledge of
many things to be successful. Knowledge, cleverness, wisdom, the art of working for the right
cause and consistent and perseverant work make you succeed. It all depends upon how much
capable and powerful you are and how you implement it.
There is nothing in the life of people who are incapable and lack in
knowledge. Therefore to have virtues is the sign of being lucky. Such virtuous ones are respected
everywhere. One who knows what is Maya and Parbrahma, what is soul and what is Atman attains
Mukti.
One should strive for the knowledge that the God is without
properties. He should try to find out the real self and then know that he and the God are one and the
same. He encounters everything which is visible which he discards and then goes deep inside
himself, a process in which he loses his pride after which what remains is the pure real self the
knowledge of which is the real knowledge. This not only yields Moksha but frees him from the
cycle of birth and death. Shree Samarth says that such a person should be alert in everyday
happenings and shouldn’t think that as he has reached the ultimate state he can afford to neglect
everything else.
Without doing this and doing everything and anything else yields
nothing. Without knowledge doing anything is not possible. This is applicable to worship as well as
karma. I am the Atman is the sign of knowledge whereas I am the body is that of lack of
knowledge. Finally the feeling that I am the Atman also disappears in the Parbrahma. Here the
disciples asked Shree Samarth to kindly explain the oft repeated thing in the religious scriptures,
“Whatever is inside (Body) is the same thing that is outside (Throughout the universe).”
END OF THE FOURTH SAMAS
THE FIFTH SAMAS – ANUMANNIRSHAN (CLEARING THE THOUGHTS)
The disciple says that he can’t comprehend what is oft repeated in the
religious scriptures that whatever is there in the universe is there in the mind body intellect
conglomerate too. They say that the heart of the body is equivalent to Lord Vishnu in the universe,
the mind in the body to the moon, the intellect to the Lord Brahma, the thought to the original God
and the pride to the Lord Mahesh. I can’t experience this and on the contrary it gives rise to further
queries in my mind. How is the heart of the Vishnu, the mind of the moon, the intellect of the
Brahma, the thought of the original God and the pride of the Mahesh? I don’t believe the scriptures
just for the sake of it. There should be some proof for it and if it is there then I should be able to
experience it. He then requests Shree Samarth to enlighten him and others on this to which Shree
Samarth readily agrees and says that whatever you say about the futility of just believing in the
hypotheses without any proof is absolutely right and I have always said that without the experience
of the self all the talk and karma are foolish.