THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

The Atman resides in all the bodies and gets done the karmas through
the various organs. The feelings inside the bodies of all the living are the same and therefore you
shouldn’t hurt the feelings of anyone by which you can love all and all will love you. This feeling
inside all is nothing but the God. The Atman despite being one seems to be fragmented in all by
virtue of the difference in the mind body intellect conglomerate of the so called different ones. Yet
on minute observation and examination you find it to be one beyond the conglomerate. All the
living creatures are driven by this feeling which accompanies everyone from birth to death. One
should try to win over the Atman of the universe which is in the form of this feeling to have all
with you. This can be done by keeping all happy, tending to their demands, social or physical,
turning a blind eye and deaf ears to the vicious, by staying with people for a time according to their
needs and leaving them if the need be for their own benefit. All this requires tremendous wisdom
indeed. Atman is one and only but seems to be different on account of the many bodies it resides in.
This Atman has to be seen by remaining a witness to its being all the
time. The one with unflinching faith in the Atman knows the all pervading and all conquering God.
The way we see others’ eyes through our eyes we should see the soul within others through our
own soul. Without it nothing can work. Everything works on account of its supreme power. We
become wise because of it. All that we do while awake and all that happens in the dreams is
because of it.
The way to meditate for it is to remember the God all the times. This
is the real key to meditation but most forget this simple way and try to do it with a lot of efforts
which unfortunately go waste. The meditation thus tried is interrupted by many obstacles. Trying to
meditate for the God with forms mostly yields a bizarre experience wherein you see many
unnecessary things. The other thing to be remembered is whether we are meditating for the God or
for his abodes. The Atman is the God and its abode is the body. Now it is up to us to decide where
to keep our faith in, in the God or in the body. It is imperative to recognize the God and to prey him
thence.
The meditation should have a firm base of faith in the real self. All
other meditations aren’t of any use as they don’t yield the enlightening experience of the self and
are thus based on assumptions rather than any proof. Assumptions give rise to more and more
imagination and are detrimental to real meditation. Meditating for something with properties is
bound to yield nothing but a sense of dejection. Here you have to assume that the God is present in
some or the other form which gives rise to many inherent incongruities not to mention of the many
more types of grief it can accrue due to its bodily form.
When such incongruent thoughts come to the mind, it loses the power
of rationality and you see things you don’t wish to see thereby depriving you of the benefits of
meditation. While meditating you can’t describe what you see as it is beyond description. You can
only have full faith in it. Faith is an entity which you can have fully or you are devoid of it. You
can’t be forced to have faith in something you don’t believe in. In this state of mind you are bound
to undergo much turmoil at the cost of meditation. The quality of meditation is dependent upon the
state of mind and it decides what benefits you can accrue out of it. Meditation undisturbed by
anything save anything is the real meditation.
The mind of the Sadhak should be totally concentrated on the final
aim. Bifurcated meditation accrues out of bifurcated mind. The outcome of meditation should be
unification of the one doing meditation and the final aim of the meditation. You won’t get anything
fruitful if you forget this and do anything in the name of meditation. You don’t have to do anything
while meditating. It is as simple as that but we are in the habit of complicating the things rather