THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

the correct path. There is no point in tit for tat type of behavior which leads to quarrels and nothing
else. You should set an example by tolerating the unbearable problems. If somebody abuses you
don’t retaliate by which there is a chance that the person abusing you would repent. Talk as the
occasion demands but don’t take any credit for that. Try to be humility personified. Watch this
world and people very carefully to avoid vices and to acquire virtues. Befriend the wise and the
astute. Be careful about everything and don’t go anywhere without knowing what goes on there.
Try to have knowledge of many subjects which when delivered to
others creates a feeling of fulfillment amongst them. The best way to make the people
knowledgeable is to write as many books preaching the correct path. Give whatever everyone
wants by which people start respecting you. Such a man who is versatile yet ready to give away
anything is almost worshipped as a God by all who provides everything to them.
END OF THE SIXTH SAMAS
THE SEVENTH SAMAS – ADHORDHWANIRUPAN
(ABOUT THE UP AND DOWN)
The original Maya which resides in the Parbrahma in the most micro
form with motility beyond imagination is responsible for the changes in the universe. It is made up
of feeling. The first motive in the Parbrahma is in the form of feeling and that is the original Maya.
The God is found here. Nature and the male, the Shiva and the power or the half male half female
dance God are some of the names for it but their origin is the universal flame. When the first
motive surfaced, instability came into existence which wasn’t there in the most stable. This was
brought about by the wind. It also brings in the three properties and the five basic elements which
are there right from the birth of the instability.
For explaining this he gives a simile of the trees whose leaves,
flowers and fruits are creation of the roots and are dependent upon the roots. The tree of the
original Maya goes on expanding ceaselessly, many changes occur in that and it assumes a shape
beyond imagination. Some fruits fall off and new fruits are formed. This cycle goes on endlessly.
After a while the tree shrinks and finally dries out and vanishes into the earth. But immediately
some other tree takes its place. This cycle also goes on and on. If you go to the roots and destroy
them then there will be no growth of the tree at all. This is akin to destruction of your mind body
intellect conglomerate for preventing the Maya to envelope you and get to the Parbrahma. Shree
Samarth also makes it very simple through this example that the entire universe ultimately vanishes
into the original Maya. A common man is born, dies and continues in the same cycle. But the
knowledgeable is freed of this cycle.
The knowledgeable has no birth and hence no death but for
acquisition of this knowledge he has to do tremendous Sadhana. In fact the knowledge is there in
everyone but they don’t know it because they don’t do the requisite Sadhana. It is not visible but
everyone does everything in the light of the real knowledge without being aware of it.