THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Hitherto Shree Samarth has told us what is to be done and what
shouldn’t be. In the remaining half he tells us how to do it. His preaching is on the basis of not only
the Upanishads but also on his own experiences which gives a different dimension to his preaching.
His explanation of worship and the other Sadhana is based on primarily the real knowledge of the
self. Because of this basis of the enlightenment of transcendental within everyone being the
stepping stone for everybody according to him the knowledgeable worshipper is the ideal person.
He says that you should attain Mukti but once you do that it is your primary duty to disseminate
this knowledge and the path to get it to others who are groping in the dark. He now tells how to do
it too. In Marathi or in other languages there is no shortage of spiritual writings but there is no
evidence that anyone else apart from Shree Samarth has advocated and told the ways how to
metamorphose the people’s thinking and behavior so that the whole society is transformed into a
congenial one ready to accept all and that too within the spiritual compass. Anyone can derive
fragrance from flowers but Shree Samarth tells how to derive it from the mud! Therein lays his
greatness apart from other innumerable things. His target is the common family man who is
engulfed in the web of the desires and lusts. He wants him to be freed from that web and enable and
empower him to get the knowledge of the real self. His ideal Siddha is such a person who is full of
love for all, purest at heart, full to the brink with the ultimate knowledge and completely Mukta
from the life.
THE ELEVENTH DASHAK – BHEEMDASHAK
(THE DASHAK DEDICATED TO HANUMAN)
THE FIRST SAMAS – SIDDHANTNIRUPAN (ABOUT THE HYOPOTHESES)
We have already seen that the wind originates from the sky. The
friction in the gusts of the wind gives rise to the fire. The still wind gives rise to the water. The
earth is created from the water. It is full of seeds which give rise to innumerable seedlings which
we see as the different forms.
This visible universe is totally encompassed by the imagination
which reaches up to the Maya which also created the three great Lords. The instability in the totally
stable and still Brahma is the first form of the imagination. From the imagination the nature got its
form. This nature is called as eight formed one in the Hindu philosophy. These eight forms are the
five basic elements and the three basic properties. In the very beginning the imagination was in a
very micro form, when it expanded it took the form of the entire universe.
The imagination which originated in the Brahma is the original
Maya. The properties emanated from it. This is referred to as the Maya with the properties. When it
gave rise to the entire visible it became the Maya signifying the lack of knowledge. Then all the
living and the nonliving forms were created. Now Shree Samarth tells how this universe is
destroyed, which he has already told. Once this universe is completely destroyed and only the
Parbrahma remains the Maya also vanishes. In this stateless state and formless form there is no live
form or the nonliving form. The play of imagination finally ends. Shree Samarth repeats here that