THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

power of desires which is the basic cause for the lack of knowledge and the power of the
knowledge which is the power emanating from the experience that I am the ultimate.
These are the thirty two principles. Adding to them the twenty five
each of the micro and macrocosm already discussed makes a total of eighty two. Apart from these
are the knowledge and the lack of it, making the final figure of eighty four. First recognize these
principles, and then you will know that they are all creations of the Maya. You then remain a
witness to them and dissolve them forever. Being a witness is knowledge by which you know what
the lack of it is. When you are able to make your mind body intellect conglomerate vanish you get
the feeling that the knowledge and the lack of it have vanished too. The body of the macrocosm is
based on the body of microcosm. With the application of the wisdom accruing out of the
knowledge of the self the micro and macrocosm also cease to exist for you. Then you get to
experience that everything around you is nothing but the creation of the Maya, but to reach this
stage you have to apply the wisdom of what is Atman and what isn’t.
The bones, muscles, skin, vessels and the follicles are the properties
of the earth. Semen, blood, saliva, urine and sweat are formed from water. Hunger, thirst, idleness,
sleep and intercourse are the properties of light. Movement, twirls, expansion, contraction and
resistance are the properties of the wind. Lust, anger, grief, desire and fear are related to the sky.
This is the constitution of the macro body having expressions of the twenty five principles.
Shree Samarth now tells about the microcosm. The feeling of the
mind, the mind itself, intellect, the feeling of being, and pride are the sky pentangles. There are five
types of wind in the microcosm. The first one occupies the whole of the body, the second one is at
the umbilicus, the third one is in the throat, the fourth one is at the anus and the fifth one is in the
mouth and the nose. Ears, skin, eyes, tongue and the nose represent the light. Voice, hands, legs,
genitals and anus are the properties of water. Words, touch, appearance, various juices and smell
signify the presence of earth in the microcosm. These are the twenty five principles of the
microcosm.
END OF THE NINTH SAMAS
THE TENTH SAMAS – TONAPSIDDHALAKSHAN (THE SIGNS OF THE SIDDHA AND
A NOVICE)
First Shree Samarth bows before the Parbrahma but tells us that you
can’t go at that place with the help of your body and have a view of it with the so called vision that
you have. You have to think very deeply and with the utmost wisdom about it. The Siddha has this
knowledge. If you can’t understand this then you should get the know-how about it from them. It is
common knowledge that the speed of the mind far outweighs that of the body and therefore if your
mind is occupied by only the thought of the Parbrahma then it is easier to know how to approach it.
The invisible for the normal eyes has to be seen by the eyes of
knowledge. There are stars and planets in the universe without which it would have been empty or
only space would have occupied it. That space being visible is also untrue. The only truth is the
Parbrahma which is invisible, endless and without bounds. What the eyes can see is the visible.
What the mind can comprehend is illusion. Parbrahma is beyond the mind which is without any