THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

eligion at all. He is by nature easily impressionable by the worse. He has enough or even more
than enough money, still wants more and yet is utterly miserly.
He thinks that he is the most beautiful, strongest, most astute and the
greatest of them all. He is full of pride for the most trivial things. He always thinks badly of others
and most of the times feels that by doing this he will be benefited. He, is full of jealousy, lust,
always conspires against others and thinks that all the others are nothing as compared to him.
A materialistic person is always apprehensive about how will he
succeed in this difficult family life, he thinks about the happiness he enjoyed and is now unhappy
that the things which gave him happiness aren’t there anymore. He wants to be richer than the
others. He always likes others to fight and induces them to do so; he is idlest of the idle. He loves
the things like narcotics which cultivate addiction.
He positively dislikes worshiping the God, likes to make propaganda
of the others’ vices, likes to steal, can’t resist sweets and can’t tolerate fasting. He always likes to
be neck deep in lust. This is the property because of which one has to undergo the cycle of birth
and death and terrible unhappiness during life as that human being is unaware of the Parbrahma and
hence is in love with all that is visible. The way to overcome all this is simple or so it seems,
worshipping the God!
The worship of the God should be done with your body, mind and all
the senses by offering him all that you have. One should try to give away all the material things to
those who are needy. Even while performing your duties during family life one shouldn’t for a
second forget the God.
I have tried to define many aspects of the impure property of being
materialistic. It should be remembered though that those who are materialistic but are pure at heart
and willing to learn eventually turn to spirituality. The signs of this are found in the property of
being truthful which completely leads you to the worship of the God. Now I will describe the signs
of being highly temperamental.
END OF FIFTH SAMAS
THE SIXTH SAMAS – TAMOGUN LAKSHAN
(SIGNS OF BEING HIGHLY TEMPERAMENTAL)
Now I will describe the signs of the highly temperamental people.
They are highly annoyed whenever they have to face grief, they very easily get angry and in the fit
of anger they can beat even the elders and the younger ones from their own family, they can even
kill others in this state or are least bothered about their own life.
These people like to go to war on any trivial issues. They are always
doubtful of others, unsure about themselves, like to sleep all the time and their aims constantly
change. They have insatiable hunger during which they can eat any damn thing, they are highly
foolish, they are so thoughtless that they can give their life if someone whom they love dies, they
have suicidal tendencies, they are terribly cruel and like to kill for the sake of it.
They very much like all sorts of addictions. They have tremendous
hatred and jealousy towards others because of which they are ever ready to harm others. They are
highly arrogant. They always like to be at a place where fights are going on. They take vicarious
pleasure in, putting obstacles in the path of the worshippers, bulldozing the temples and cutting the
trees. They are attracted towards the vices and dislike the virtues and are not afraid of sinning.