THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

time throughout the life and merely wastes it. Shree Samarth as always gives utmost importance to
your own experience without which spirituality is meaningless.
There is a vast difference between a person who leaves the family life
but continues to follow the desires and lusts and that one who leaves everything in quest of
knowledge and follows the correct path. The first one struggles for the whole of his life and people
either don’t pay any attention or have disrespect for him whereas the second one acquires the
knowledge and is continuously attended by the people and is highly respected by them. These
people benefit the society immensely even when they are doing their Sadhana for they always think
of the good for everyone. They behave according to what they preach. They always care for what
others like and provide them with that and know what others are undergoing and always help them
overcome their difficulties. Shree Samarth says that you have to find these people with application
of a lot of wisdom as they are very few.
Then for the rest of the Samas Shree Samarth elaborates about the
plight of the Brahmins for which he holds them responsible. He says that despite having the right to
the knowledge of the Parbrahma the Brahmins have declined from their status and their behavior is
highly deplorable and despicable to say the least. They have started worshipping the Gods of some
other obscure religions when they can’t follow their own religion which is in no way inferior to
others and which preaches the way of attaining the ultimate bliss. There is no thought going into
their actions and he predicts that in the times to come (The times in which we are living) these
same Brahmins are going to be responsible for disturbance of communal harmony by their ill
thoughts and deeds.
In today’s world anyone is becoming Guru which is very shameful
indeed as these so called Gurus are just utterly selfish people and nothing else. How they can be
equated with the selflessness of the real Guru is beyond anyone’s comprehension. Such type of
people and especially so the Brahmins who don’t deserve what they get spoil the good deeds done
by the virtuous. Shree Samarth here blames the Brahmins themselves for the plight they are in and
curses them for their shameless and thoughtless behavior. By living such lives the Brahmins aren’t
able to perform well either in the family or the spiritual life and lose everything on both the fronts.
Shree Samarth has elaborated on the ill natured behavior of the Brahmins and has finally stopped
by saying that probably it was our fate that they have and are doing the things that they are.
END OF THE SEVENTH SAMAS
THE EIGHTH SAMAS – AKHAND DHYAN NIRUPAN
(ABOUT UNINTERRUPTED MEDITATION)
Shree Samarth asks the Brahmins to behave for their own benefit and
behave like wise men at that. He asks us to worship the God with the whole body mind intellect
conglomerate in a very pure and pious state. He asks us to recognize the real God and then go into
an uninterrupted meditation to achieve unification with him. He is Atman and all the things by him
are Atman. This leads to the wisdom of knowing what Atman is and what isn’t. The Atman is
highly prudent, is a witness to everything, takes care of the body and makes it realize varied things
by the use of the inherent feeling.