THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

industrious, use his powers of oration wherever required to emphasize his thoughts for the benefit
of the society and make the people happy by removing all their doubts, praise Vairagya and tell the
real knowledge about one’s own self.
He should encourage and actively organize all the festivals of the
Gods and Goddesses with such bounty that even his staunchest critics become his followers and
start worshipping God, make piety the way of life for the masses, never lose track of his own
Sadhana and purity of his mind, be dogmatic if the need be, make others’ life easier by just his
company, be very brave, kind and honest, very serious in his behavior, spend his life for others’
happiness and be in the company of the likeminded people. He should also possess the qualities of
the people who are highly knowledgeable. He should be all for the others but without aligning
himself with it, deep inside his mind he should be detached from everything. He should be ever
introspective and never have anyone’s obligations.
He should be able to gauge the changing times and tides. He should
avoid any bias and study all the aspects and facets of knowledge which includes even the modern
sciences like Anatomy to Philosophy. He should be very clear in his mind about what is the
meaning of the various means such as the Karma, worship, knowledge, hypothesis, involvement
and detachment. He should also know and have experienced the various stages one has to pass till
one gets to the Parbrahma.
He should get to know of the crafts and the witchcrafts and then
accept only those permitted by the religion and the path of spiritualism and real knowledge which
he is treading on. He should be a friend of the world, free of everything, possess almost all the
qualities imaginable, free of any bounds and try and metamorphose the social mind so that it is
inclined towards spiritualism. Shree Samarth says that in a gist he should possess all the virtues get
rid of all the vices and he should be able to thrash the dangers encountered on the path of Vairagya.
Shree Samarth says that he has told these things out of his own
experience and which he found to be correct after testing them in the fire of life time and again. He
wants us to accept and imbibe most of these qualities. He also says that if you don’t do that and
instead go for the vices your life will be a hell. Such people become in Shree Samarth’s
terminology wise, literate fools! The signs of them he has told in the next samas.
END OF THE NINTH SAMAS
THE TENTH SAMAS – PADHATMOORKHA LAKSHAN
(SIGNS OF WISE, LITERATE FOOLS)
I have already told you the signs or ways by which even a fool can
become wise on the other hand now listen to the signs of those who are wise and literate yet behave
like fools. These are the people who, have read a lot, are able to disseminate the ultimate
knowledge yet are very proud and unable to come out of the clutches of lust, tell the people that
after attainment of the knowledge of the Parbrahma you are free to behave in any which way you
want making merry, say that worship of the God in the visible form is worthless, abuse the religion
and Sadhana, derive great pleasure in criticizing others, are on the look out for the slightest mistake
of others, order such things to their disciples which they know are improbably attainable, or would
put the disciple in grave dangers, make others unhappy by mere harsh words, are full of the vices
described earlier, are destructive, highly temperamental, are always conspiring, are goons in the
guise of wise, praise the rich without any reason, criticize things not known to them or books they