THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE SEVENTH SAMAS–SAGUNBHAJAN
(WORSHIPPING THE ATTRIBUTABLE GOD)
Shree Samarth says that the really knowledgeable attain Mukti while
they are alive but leave their bodily form when it is destined to die. Their power exists even after
their death but it doesn’t imply that it is on account of some of their unfulfilled desires.
People feel the miracles of them as if they are there but one has to
think deeply over it to find out the real meaning out of it. This happens only with those people who
never feel that the Sages or the Saints aren’t there any more. The miracles occur only with those
who have unflinching faith and belief in the Saints or Sages. Only those who vehemently believe
that even after the so called death or Samadhi of Saints or the Sages, they haven’t gone anywhere
but have just left their bodily form, get to experience the miracles, and not all and sundry. The fact
which most of us forget is that the Saints and the Sages or the Guru in his original form is never
ever in any way related to his body and hence there is no question of his going anywhere after he
leaves that body. Those who know this and/or have utter faith in them whether they are in the
bodily form or not, will only experience the miracles and the others won’t.
If you have this utter, unflinching faith in say your Guru and then you
remember him with the utmost yearning then he will appear before you for that moment but once
your pure desire of seeing him leaves you the Guru will also disappear and leave the bodily form
which helped you in seeing him. This is the play of your imagination and it is done by the Guru to
satisfy you. In this whole episode there isn’t any question of his desires or their fulfillment. Suffice
it to say that the really knowledgeable are neither born nor do they die. Shree Samarth again
advises us to think over this very deeply otherwise we will again be caught in the web of doubts.
The power of the really knowledgeable thus goes on automatically as
they are empowered by the Parbrahma itself, the origin of all the powers. This happens because
they never lose their saintly ways whatever the circumstances. Therefore we also should try to be
like them. There are many things to be done but the main thing is to have Vairagya. This leads to
the firm belief that I am the Parbrahma which opens the doors of the knowledge and science. This
requires apart from the things to be done in Sadhana and day to day life unflinching faith in the
Guru or the God, whomsoever you believe in. Incompleteness in this regard will spoil the whole
show.
Now Shree Samarth tells us that despite knowing the worthlessness
of the properties you have to worship the God or the Guru in the form of the properties. The reason
he gives for this is that if you don’t do it you will not get either of them and end up a pauper. He
neither has the knowledge nor the worship and contrary to that he has pride that he knows it. This
pride is the worst of the vices which by itself is capable of pulling you down to the step from where
you started. He simplifies it by telling us that till the greatest of the knowledgeable are in the bodily
form their karmas and destiny related to their body don’t vanish and therefore they have to perform
them. The difference between them and us is that they do it without any expectations whereas we
are in the habit of reaping the harvest for our work. Worship without any tinge of expectation is the
best possible form of humanity. This very aspect lends tremendous power to him whereas we being
after the fruits of our work totally lack this power. Thus the worship done by the knowledgeable is
unmatched in this universe. If you worship with expectation of a particular thing you will get it but
if don’t expect anything you will get the God! The choice is yours.
The God has the power to fulfill all our expectations but if we
worship with desires then the desired is given by him but he remains away from you. If you want