THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...
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have not read, are in the habit of finding minor faults in great works, become bored when someone<br />
tries to tell the real signs of wisdom, do all sorts of noxious things out of hatred and jealousy, are<br />
never bothered about morals, ethics or justice, are arrogant, aim for unattainable things in the pride<br />
that they are greatly knowledgeable and who talk something which is exactly opposite to what that<br />
do.<br />
Such fool is a one who, wants to become a good orator without<br />
possessing the qualities required for one, talks unnecessarily when none is listening, whose talk is<br />
very harming, despite being versatile is highly talkative and disturbs the real orator’s speech, talks<br />
about the vices of others without paying attention to the vices of his own, even though<br />
knowledgeable are useless for the society for the fact that he is not ready to share his knowledge<br />
and he can’t satisfy the others, despite possessing the ability to attain Moksha remain entangled in<br />
the material and organic pleasures of the family life, is very satisfied in the company of women,<br />
bares his soul to them, eats or drinks things prohibited by the religion, doesn’t know that he is<br />
doing things which are going to bring bad name to himself, feels that his body is the real thing and<br />
not the Atman, praises everything else but the God, praises anyone who can be helpful to him in his<br />
conspiracies, describes the body of women in great details, imitates women, if he is rich considers<br />
all others worthless, preaches things contrary to the religious preaching, indulge in astrology which<br />
is highly illogical, has never treaded on the path of worship, is devoid of Vairagya, preaches the<br />
knowledge of Parbrahma yet behaves totally contrary to it, scoffs at the places of pilgrimage, Vedas<br />
and various sciences, is a descendant of the very pure yet by behavior brings shame to his<br />
predecessors.<br />
A person of this type is one who, praises the undeserving to serve his<br />
own ends and once they are met with immediately turns his back on them and talks derogatorily<br />
about them, talks something and behaves to the contrary as a habit with others, respects the family<br />
and disrespects spirituality despite knowing the fact, gives incorrect advise just because it pleases<br />
as the correct one may offend, leads a dependent life, guises to be a good person in all the aspects<br />
but does all the bad deeds under that garb, doesn’t leave his blundered path even after knowing it to<br />
satisfy his ego, doesn’t get rid of his vices though he knows what are the virtues, talks harshly to<br />
the Saints and Sages to prove his superiority, doesn’t even know what would benefit him and what<br />
would do harm, advises people to follow the path laid down by the religion when he himself treads<br />
on the path which the religion has forbidden, knows that his disciple has slipped from the path of<br />
spiritualism and has even insulted him but hopes not for the disciple but for himself that he would<br />
come to him to find that path, can’t tolerate others’ daily chores or any other disturbance because of<br />
the others’ bodily demands (even a slight bit of coughing) during his discourses, insults the Guru in<br />
the pride of his wealth, doesn’t reveal his Guru’s traditions and uses his knowledge and spirituality<br />
selfishly and in a miserly manner to gain wealth.<br />
These people hate the God despite having failed miserably in all<br />
walks of life and in spirituality, all because of their own incompetence. Shree Samarth says that I<br />
have told all this with the intention that you would avoid behaving like these people and asks for<br />
forgiveness if he has hurt someone in doing so. He also says that greatest of the fools is the one<br />
who still believes that all the happiness lies in the family life for it is the root cause of all the<br />
unhappiness and miseries.<br />
END OF <strong>THE</strong> TENTH SAMAS<br />
END OF <strong>THE</strong> SECOND DASHAK