THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

3. In other types of knowledge the knowledge and the seeker remain different but in the
knowledge of the self the seeker becomes that knowledge itself after attaining it, that is
he becomes the Parbrahma.
4. The Parbrahma is very micro and invisible. To attain it you ought to have constant
yearning for it and must be devoid of any love for your so called family.
5. If one examines the family life from all the possible angles he finds that it is full of grief
as it remains incomplete at any given time. Once this realization dawns that human
being goes on to search the God.
6. He then finds the God in himself. The only condition is that the present state of the
“Me” has to be totally changed by constant study of the truth.
7. Thereafter the life should be spent for the ultimate God or the Guru. The unification
should be utmost complete, so much so that there should be no difference between him
and you in any respect. This can be achieved only by discarding totally your desires and
lusts.
8. Deep inside you there are two entities, the truthful and the untruthful form of you. For
attainment of the real knowledge of the self the untruthful form has to be vanquished.
9. First listen to the preaching of the Guru or the Saints and Sages who tell you about the
state of the real you. The soul and the Parbrahma are one and the same which is unique.
There you experience the illusion of differences, plurality and instability. This is on
account of the Maya. The pure conscious feeling in the Maya is the ultimate God. The
five basic elements and the three properties are in the Maya. This Maya with the
properties gives birth to the universe.
10. Whatever is seen in the live form is also seen in the universe. There is only one original
feeling working in the entire universe. This is called the flame of the universe. It is the
doer of all the karmas. It dictates the live forms.
11. The live forms forget this flame because of the lack of knowledge and then think that
they are the body or the conglomerate. Because of this myopic view they feel that they
are the doer, the achiever, the ones reaping the so called fruits which is the false world
of imagination. This is the pride of the conglomerate.
12. This pride leads the live form becoming very pitiable indeed, losing its immense power
and therefore by thinking about the principles (The elements and the properties) one
should vanquish all the instability, the pride and get unified with the ultimate Atman.
This is what all the Saints, Sages and the Guru preach.
13. One should always think about this constantly and with utmost perseverance which
makes your intellect very sharp and powerful enough for thinking about the Atman.
This, done for a period till the Guru wants finally leads to the enlightening experience of
the transcendental.
14. This path gives utmost importance to the correct thinking. Shree Samarth is the greatest
advocate of thinking about what is real and what is not. But at the same time he never
forgets to tell that the thinking should be pure and never unnecessarily dogmatic about
the things which are totally baseless, false and untrue. There shouldn’t be debate for the
sake of it. Otherwise such baseless thoughts would lead to doubts galore which in fact is
more harmful than leading a plain normal family life. Therefore Shree Samarth says that
your thinking should be on the basis of the wisdom and not any imagination. It should
come from your experiences and not from any frivolous hypotheses. He also says that
without experience the spirituality is a mere waste of time.