THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE THIRD SAMAS – SHARADASTAVAN
(IN PRAISE OF GODDESS SHARADA)
I salute Shree Sharada who is the mother of the Vedas, the origin of
the sound, the ultimate master and controller of the words and the original Maya, i.e. Illusion. She
creates the words, because of her the words are spoken and she is the one who also tells the
meaning of them. She is found in the Samadhi of the Yogis, in the fearlessness of the most
fearsome, she destroys the false notions about knowledge and even the universe by her mere words,
she is the first female, she is the feeling which one experiences when one is very near the Gods and
she gives strength to the Saints for the greater deeds which they pursue.
This power of the God is an expression of the ultimate lust free state.
Shree Sharada creates this universe in a moment, just to play for a while and then destroys it, but
she herself prefers to be hidden behind the Gods. The Saints can see her by their senses but even
the Braham can’t find her even with the brightest fancy of imagination therefore it is difficult to
make out the real Sharada. Everything that occurs in the universe is on account of her strength. The
purest form of intuition is nothing but Sharada herself. The power of real knowledge is also nothing
but Sharada and she is the one with whose blessings those deserving can enjoy the bliss of the
ultimate happiness forever.
She is the ultimate in beauty in this universe and is unified with Sun
like its rays are with it. She gives peace to everyone who worships her. She is the Moksha herself
which is the most pious thing in the universe. She makes the invisible God visible and is the cause
behind the extension of God’s wishes. She is the abstract form of the blessings of the Guru by
which he can control even the time. With the help of words she makes the Sadhak capable of going
beyond the visible and realize the futility of the duality leading to the unification with the
Parbrahma. She is a self made persona who is the most complete one and is found in the humans in
four forms. In the form of Para, Pashyanti and Madhyama she creates words in the mind of the
humans which are expressed in the form of the Vaikhari, the spoken word, all of which is the doing
of Sharada. Without words all the happenings in this world will come to a standstill and therefore
Sharada is responsible for sustenance of this universe. She is the mother of Brahma, Vishnu and
Mahesh. The whole universe is but an expression of her imagination. She is the ultimate knowledge
and hence the whole way to the Parbrahma. She helps the Yogis to meditate, a Sadhak to learn the
art of thinking about the real self and she is the one who rests in the minds of the Saints and Sages
during Samadhi.
When one gets to know about Sharada one also is affirmed that he
has realized the real form of himself and also that she is formless. Yet it is an everyday experience
for them that in all the visible forms the visibility of them is the magic of Sharada without which
they would have been invisible. All the religious books, Vedas, Shruti and all the Sages and Saints
always praise her, because the Vedas knew that the importance given to them is because of Sharada
and also because the Vedas and Shruti also knew that the formless Parbrahma can’t be expressed or
described by words and they had accepted their defeat in this regard but it was Sharada who got it
to may be a little extent by at least calling it the Parbrahma. Sharada is the first pure, most
knowledgeable feeling of the Parbrahma that, “I am”. Because she is what has been said till now;
all types of extensions of knowledge are on account of her.
Sharada is also the worship of the worshippers, the state of Samadhi
of the knowledgeable and Moksha or Mukti of the Sages and Saints. Even then, she is the Maya
whose beginning or end are incomprehensible to most, also most can’t understand the drama she