THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

the power of the God then you shouldn’t aspire for it while doing the worship. It will automatically
accrue. Don’t expect anything is the keyword!
For such humane people God does anything. They don’t have to ask
for it. The combination of the real knowledge and the worship of the God is so powerful that it
overpowers the so called uncontrollable time too, forget about the rest. Such people are always in a
state of eternal bliss.
Finally Shree Samarth says that the Sadhak should think over this
very deeply indeed; apply his knowledge of what is truthful and what isn’t whereby his mind and
intellect will be diverted towards the knowledge of the self which is the gift of the God. Once given
the God never takes it back. The worshipper who can’t be separated from the God is guided by the
God himself and accompanies him on the rest of his path. He quotes a religious scripture here
which means that the God gives them the clue to worship whereby they unify with him. In a
nutshell the knowledge of the Parbrahma combined with the worship of the God yielding the bliss
of enlightenment of the self are very difficult to achieve but those who can achieve them, there
remains nothing else to be achieved.
END OF THE SEVENTH SAMAS
THE EIGHTH SAMAS – PRACHITNIRUPAN (ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE)
The one who experiences the real self is the only wise, thus says
Shree Samarth. He gives innumerable examples from day to day life in which he tells how a wise
person believes only in what he experiences and thus believes in it, otherwise he plainly refuses to
accept anything which can neither be experienced nor be proved. Shree Samarth throughout the
Dasbodha has vehemently stressed time and again that what is applicable in day to day life
concerning the material things is also applicable in spirituality and without the enlightening
experience of the transcendental only waxing eloquent about it is nothing but foolishness. He
almost orders the disciples to get that experience and only then believe in it and only then talk
about it, without which you would just be making a mockery of yourself.
Then Shree Samarth tells about the knowledge of the self. He says
that when you experience that the vices have completely vanished from your whole self and the
cycle of birth and death has been broken for you, when you realize the real you, when you know
who created this entire universe, when you know who is the real doer then rest assured that you
have the knowledge of the real self.
If even a tinge of doubt remains about what has been said hitherto all
your efforts have gone down the drain. Shree Samarth is so confident about what he has said
(Where even the Vedas and Shruti have surrendered saying that it isn’t like this nor is it like that!)
that he challenges anyone to disprove him. He even says that his Guru Lord Ram knows what he is
saying (In Indian spirituality usually the disciple is supposed to be the listener and the Guru the
explainer). He has so much conviction in his saying that he says that his worship is such that if he is
proven wrong the wrongdoing or saying will be like accusing Lord Ram and the entire fault will be
of the Lord! (This is the real unification with the Guru who is nothing but the Parbrahma). It takes
unimaginable courage and conviction in one’s own experiences in spirituality and the ultimate
authority in it to say something like this. It is notable here that of all the known Saints only Shree
Samarth has said anything like this.