THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

You have to completely unify with it and thereafter you get the enlightening experience of the
transcendental. The Sadhana done without thought is useless. Therefore blind faith is alright only as
far as the Guru is concerned but nowhere else. Shree Samarth throughout has given utmost
importance to thoughtful use and application of the wisdom. He says that without it there is no
difference between the humans and the other forms of life.
First listen to the Guru, think over it deeply and imbibe his preaching,
constantly think about it, then you start climbing up the stairs of the spiritual path wherein you get
to experience things you had never dreamt of which makes your faith and belief in the Guru more
and more concrete and then you get the enlightening experience of the inner self, the Atman or the
Brahma or the Parbrahma. Nothing else is required to be done.
END OF THE NINTH SAMAS
(THOUGHTS ABOUT THE STILL AND UNSTILL)
THE TENTH SAMAS – CHALACHALVICHAR
The Parbrahma remains as it is forever. It was there before the origin
of the universe, is there and will be there after the destruction of the universe. Not only it is there
but at any given time it is omnipresent. It is the only unbelievably most still stateless state. We get
some illusion of some instability in it which is described by some names. These are the original
Maya, the original Nature and the original Male. But it is futile to name anything without realizing
what it is.
Just as wind originated in the sky and started moving, the original
Maya emanated from the Parbrahma. This movement is on account of the desire. The Parbrahma
which is devoid of any diseased properties had a conscious feeling that it is the Parbrahma. This is
the original Nature. From it the whole universe originated. Shree Samarth then enumerates the
many names ascribed to the original Atman some of which are feminine and some are masculine as
well as being without any gender. Despite being described by many names the original remains the
same.
The Atman is behind all the doings of all the forms including the
spectrum from the most micro forms to the great Lords. It can be experienced but can’t be seen.
The knowledgeable being unified with that behaves like that. When he sees anything he becomes
like it. So much so that it even becomes faster than the wind or the light. He can become any of the
organs including the sense organs for performing their karmas and yet remains alien from
everything.
There are two types of males described, the destructible and the
indestructible which we have already seen. The third one which can’t be described is the Parbrahma
which is the best form despite the fact that it has no form! The word contradiction arises because of
the inability of the words in describing it.
The Sadhak should go beyond all the describable forms and by his
Sadhana should dissolve all the visible. By this he becomes inseparable worshipper of the
worshipped. He should never forget that whatever is amenable to change is Maya and the only
thing that is not infected with Maya is the Parbrahma. He should experience it by deeply thinking
over it.