THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

common man but without harming anyone yet deep inside you should be constantly unified with
the Parbrahma.
END OF THE SECOND SAMAS
THE THIRD SAMAS – SHIKVAN NIRUPAN (ABOUT PREACHING)
One gets the human life form after having gone through many
subordinate forms. One should always remember this and behave morally and ethically with the
purest of hearts. He should pay all the attention to the family life without absolute involvement in it
and along with that study spirituality wholeheartedly. If you are able to maintain a fine balance
between these two then you will definitely succeed in both.
As a child you know very little about life and its vagaries, during the
young years one spends a lot of time in fulfilling his desires and lusts and during old age one is apt
to suffer from disease/s. In this manner the three phases of life are engulfed by either lack of
knowledge or by your lusts, desires or the diseases. There is very little time left for spending if any
for the sake of getting closer to the God. There are so many problems in life that trying to find out
the solutions for them takes all of your time. One sees death many times yet never tries to imagine
about his own death and despite experiencing the temporariness of all the things tries in vain to
convince himself that the bad phases will go and the good times will last forever. The outcome of
all this is that by the time he realizes the truth the time is over for him and then he has to face the
grief in the hell, for the simple reason that he failed to pay attention to what he was doing during
his lifetime. Shree Samarth says that you shouldn’t do like this and rather behave thoughtfully and
with the application of wisdom which would serve the dual purpose of succeeding in the family life
as well as the spiritual one.
Idleness is very easy to follow and therefore most of us prefer that
forgetting that working constantly may give you lot of pain in the beginning yet the harvest you
reap out of that is rich. Therefore you should win over the idleness and indulge in constant work
which will definitely yield rich dividends.
Shree Samarth then tells how to lead the life. Get early in the
morning, perform the morning chores, read important things and try to remember them by heart,
then worship the God, have your breakfast, start doing your daily routine work which is earning
your bread, be nice to all the people and talk in a sweet manner, be very careful in your day to day
and time to time dealings otherwise you can be deceived by even a child. There is no forgiveness in
this world for even the inadvertent mistakes and therefore it is important to be wise all the time than
to repent afterwards. Your attention should be constantly devoted to your work all the time. Then in
the noon have your lunch, read again, discuss with your knowledgeable peers and then in loneliness
study many things which are important for you. If you behave like this there are greater chances
that you will become a wise man otherwise you come to be known as a fool. Seeing the others
enjoy everything is the sign of fools. The greatest fortune is not to waste a single moment of your
life. Your personality should be multifaceted and you must have all the knowledge required for
whatever you are doing for earning your bread. You should never beg for anything, rather you
should be benevolent enough to help others who are in distress. You should always spend your
energy for a good cause.