THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

ehind then this presents to you as the real Atman. If this Atman loses its prudence, forgets its all
pervasiveness and thinks that it is nothing but the mind body intellect conglomerate then it becomes
the soul limited to the body by taking birth as some live form.
Shree Samarth now goes even further to explain this complicated
subject. He says that it goes without saying that the soul which you restrict to the mind body
intellect conglomerate can’t get over the cycle of birth and death and the same is true for the Atman
if it thinks that I am the Atman. The only difference being the soul is born as any live form whereas
the Atman is born as reincarnation of the Lords, Brahma, Vishnu or Mahesh. Even when the Atman
is born thus it can’t escape the fact that it is born on this mortal earth and hence has to suffer the
vagaries of life. The feeling that I am the Parbrahma is knowledge and I am the body is lack of it.
You have to go beyond these feelings to reach the ultimate which Shree Samarth calls as Science.
He says that the feeling of I am something which is there in knowledge as well as the lack of it
should go for remaining in the state of being scientific wherein you remain there only for the sake
of uninterrupted and uncorrupted self enlightening experience which is free of any repercussions or
implications. Just the knowledge that I am something led to the formation and maintenance of this
universe. This knowledge remains to be diseased. It is the original whirl which emanated in the
immovable Parbrahma. From it originated the eight faceted Nature leading to the formation of the
universe the origin of which being diseased has to be diseased in nature itself. Everything else apart
from the highly scientific state of the stateless Parbrahma is formed from this original whirl known
as the original Maya. First you have to acquire the knowledge and then leave that behind to achieve
the scientific state of being there without any form or properties.
END OF THE FIRST SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – SRUSHTITRIVIDHLAKSHANNIRUPAN
(THE THREE ASPECTS OF NATURE)
Before the origin of the Maya Parbrahma was the only thing by its
own. Even if the visible universe comes and goes the Parbrahma remains as it is occupying all the
seen and the unseen. There are no bounds or limits for the Parbrahma. It is unique in every sense of
the word and completely independent. Without it nothing can be there. Go beyond the so called
visible and imagine that the visible is nonexistent, then you will realize that there is no motion
anywhere, everything will be experienced as empty. If you apply your wisdom of knowing what is
permanent and what is temporary then you will experience that this motionless empty space is fully
and totally filled up by the one and only Parbrahma (Shree Samarth stresses that this isn’t easy at
all and only the chosen few will be blessed with the eternally complete experience of the
Parbrahma). They will have a four dimensional view of it and as the mind can only comprehend the
three dimensional ones it is utterly incapable of adding the fourth dimension which only the Guru is
capable of adding for the sake of a deserving disciple.
The visible is comprehendible whereas the Parbrahma isn’t. The
visible comes in the spectrum of the imagination whereas the Parbrahma doesn’t. You should
always keep in mind the meaning of “You are that” and “I am the Parbrahma” which always helps