THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Hence it is futile to find out who is the doer. Shree Samarth says that you have to experience this to
understand it. It can also be understood with the application of wisdom. He has tried to make a very
difficult subject easy; otherwise it is impossible to explain it in words.
The disciples ask a further question, “Who experiences the happiness
or grief in the body?” This is explained in the next samas.
END OF THE EIGHTH SAMAS
THE NINTH SAMAS – ATMAVIVARAN (ABOUT THE SOUL)
As the soul resides inside the body it has to endure grief and worry.
The soul lives in conjunction with the body. If the body stops eating the soul can’t survive. If the
soul isn’t there the body can’t survive. It is thus futile to try and separate the body and the soul. All
the karmas in one’s life are because of the body and the soul. All that happens with one affects the
other. Therefore happiness and grief which the body perceives has to be endured by the soul too.
The gas which circulates through the blood in our body is accompanied by the soul. (It is
noteworthy that during the times of Shree Samarth little was known about the anatomy or
physiology!) The soul induces the body to do karmas necessary for its sustenance i.e. drinking,
eating, sleeping etc. It also enjoys or suffers as the case may be through the utilization of the sense
organs. It is aggrieved if the body is put to stress.
The soul inside the body is the one which experiences everything
which the person to whom that body belongs feels. Without it the body is dead. There is nothing of
the mind body intellect which is not known to the soul. It drives the body and gets the things done
through it.
The wind has the highest motility and is highly micro but the soul is
more motile and more micro than the wind. The wind can’t cross say for instance a mountain but
the soul can. On the contrary the soul despite being micro is impenetrable. Wind produces sound
whereas the soul doesn’t. Whatever you do to your body ultimately goes to the soul. When there is
this combination of the body and the soul innumerable things are possible. If you separate them
then nothing is possible. If you can combine them towards working with wisdom then nothing is
impossible for you.
END OF THE NINTH SAMAS
THE TENTH SAMAS – SHIKVANNIRUPAN (ABOUT PREACHING)
The soul is present in everything conceivable. It also encompasses
them to the fullest extent. The liveliness is due to the soul. The soul in the body isn’t the Parbrahma
till you have the enlightening experience. Just as you can’t equate the king with his servant the
same is the case with the soul and the Parbrahma. But the servant can strive hard and become the
king and in the same vein the soul i.e. you can become the Parbrahma provided you are prepared to
do everything required for it. Shree Samarth further clarifies that the soul within a Saint and a
vicious man is the same but you can’t equate both of them for obvious reasons.