THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

forms. He further explains that what the serpent sees is exactly what the frog does. In short
whatever is felt by the organs and interpreted by any live form is the same. This is highly surprising
but is nonetheless true to the hilt (This has been proved by the modern science too). Whether
someone likes one thing and the other dislikes it depends upon the bodily interpretations yet the
feelings of the mind are virtually alike. Those who dislike something know deep inside that it is
good but yet he abhors it because he knows that he can’t get it! Shree Samarth says that the feelings
of the minutest life forms to the Lord Brahma are the same!
The intellect is the mixture of the feelings and lack of it and it is the
part of the Parbrahma in the life form. The Parbrahma thus expresses itself in all the live forms.
Finally Shree Samarth says that don’t accept it just because I am saying it. Experience it and I am
sure yours will be the same as mine.
END OF THE FIRST SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – DEHAASHANKA (DOUBTS)
The disciples say that it is said that the God is in your body but we
don’t experience him in our bodies. It is also said that the three great Lords are responsible for
creation, maintenance and destruction. We are unable to see the evidence for this neither do we see
them anywhere let alone the body. You have said that these Gods have been created by the Maya
but we haven’t yet understood who has created the Maya. The creators of the religious scriptures
say that the original Maya created the universe and also the three properties which acquired the
form of the three great Lords. Yet when asked if they have experienced all this they sidetrack the
issue. To go after something which can’t be experienced, yields frustration and nothing else.
If we say that the Gods created the Maya then it is the other way
round whereas if we say that the Maya created the Maya then it sounds utterly foolish.
It is not possible that the five basic elements created the Maya for the
simple reason that the elements are present in the Maya. We can’t say that the Parbrahma created
the Maya as the Parbrahma is the only thing without any karma. On top of all this the fact remains
that the Maya itself is an illusion.
The Vedas are made of words which originated from the Om which
can’t express itself without a body and body can’t be formed without another body. The questions
which arise are from where the Vedas originated, how the bodies were created and from where did
the Gods came into visible existence.
Shree Samarth says that doubts raised by the disciples really are
worth consideration and it is also true that there is contradiction between what the religious
scriptures say and what a common man experiences. Thus the doubts merit explanation. He further
says that the religious scriptures put forth hypothesis but don’t prove it; he will try to keep the
religious scriptures unharmed and yet explain about the doubts in the next samas.
END OF THE SECOND SAMAS