THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

has set on this stage of the universe. She examines the really knowledgeable by testing them with
an injection of pride of their knowledge. Whatever can be seen by the eyes, understood by the
words and imagined by the mind are the forms of Sharada.
The praise or worship of the God is impossible without the help of
Sharada. Only the really knowledgeable and those who have experienced what and who they are
will readily understand what I mean by this. I therefore salute the Shree Sharada with the feeling
that I am a part of her and with the knowledge that she is bigger than the biggest and Goddess of all
the Gods.
END OF THE THIRD SAMAS
THE FOURTH SAMAS – SADGURUSTAVAN (IN PRAISE OF THE GURU)
Shree Samarth says that Maya or the illusion can’t even touch the
Guru. We also can’t fathom him as all of our knowledge is bound by the Maya and therefore it is
not possible to describe the Guru who remains beyond description. Shruti is the Mother of the
ultimate knowledge but even she couldn’t describe the Parbrahma which is nothing but the Guru by
saying that, “His form can’t be fathomed, it can’t be! It is not like anything even remotely
imaginable!” She had to stop there and then only. If Shruti had so much difficulty and at the end
had to literally stop at attempting to describe the Guru it is not the job of fools like us to do that!
Shree Samarth says that I don’t know the real form of the Guru and
therefore I salute the Guru from a distance as I don’t have the courage to go near him without
knowing him. He prays the Guru to take him beyond the specter of the Maya as I thought that Maya
would help me to do that and to praise the Guru. It was not to be because it was as good as hoping
against hope. Therefore I just say that, “Oh Guru! You be in the state in which you were, are and
would be till eternity”. I really wanted to praise you with the help of the Maya but with the mention
of your name she just shied away and I was rendered helpless. Despite this being a fact just as the
Parbrahma has to be described by ascribing some form to it with the help of the same Maya I will
have to praise the Guru although he is beyond comprehension. One praises the God as he seems to
him; in the same vein I would also praise and salute you imagining what I feel about you with my
limited imagination, intuition, wisdom, intellect and power of mind.
I hail the Guru who is filling the whole of the universe, who is the
origin of it, who is the best amongst all, who is the best friend of the poor and who is Moksha and
the Parbrahma personified. Just as darkness makes way for the sunlight the blessings of the Guru
remove all the illusions and compel the Maya to vanish for ever which paves the way for the rise of
the ultimate knowledge which saves the being from the vicious cycle of birth and death.
The mind of the disciple of the Guru is so pure that he never has any
doubts about anything. Before the disciple meets the Guru, the disciple is a common man but after
he gets the company and the preaching of the Guru he almost becomes unified with the Guru. He
even gets the right to preach others too. Guru is like a metal which can transform iron into gold, but
Guru is not like that metal also. If I say that the Guru is like an ocean that is also not true as the
water of the ocean is salty. If I say that the Guru is like the highest and the biggest mountain that is
also untrue because the mountain is made up of hard rock and is lifeless. The Guru is greater and
bigger than any of these. He is not like the sky because the sky looks like a big zero whereas the