THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

His uncontrollable youthful desires lead to insatiable lust and
therefore he has relations with many women. For his crimes the law punishes him but that too can’t
deter him from adopting any ways and means to satiate his devious desires. He loses his power of
distinguishing between what is good and bad for he thinks that whatever he was doing was the best!
The natural consequence is that he gets afflicted with the diseases because of his frequenting the
prostitutes. The diseases make his body gruesome. Yet he continues doing the same things which
further damage his body and in youth itself he looks like an old man.
His body which he saw as an asset becomes the greatest liability.
Looking at it he develops self pity and now prays God whom he had forgotten, “Please let me die; I
can’t see myself suffering any more like this.”
He loses everything which he so proudly possessed including all of
his money which was stolen by the thieves. Just because he prayed God his condition day by day
improves and surprisingly for others again he is in a position where he can stand on his own. Yet he
thinks that he had risen from the ashes on his own and doesn’t remember God! He again starts in
the same old vein. He earns some money, some good things for the house and begins his life with
his second wife as if nothing had happened except for the fact that both were aggrieved that they
had no issue. They try everything for getting an issue. They even go to the witch men and use all
types of supernatural powers to get an issue. They pray God promising innumerable things for God
(!) if they were blessed. The God finally accedes to their demand and finally they have a son. Both
of them are in absolute love with the child. They can’t tolerate even the hunger cry of their child
and immediately would run helter-skelter to please him. Unfortunately they lose their son due to
some unexplained illness. They go mad with grief. They start squarely blaming everyone including
the God for their plight and ill luck. After some time they think that they should again pray God,
which they do and he being ever so kind blesses them and lo and behold! They have not one but
many children.
END OF THE THIRD SAMAS
THE FOURTH SAMAS – SWAGUNPAREEKSHA-C
(TESTING THE PROPERTIES)
He then had lot of children with the blessings of God but because he
hadn’t planned for anything he lost all the money he had and the children didn’t get anything to eat.
They started begging for their survival. This continued for a while. He was deeply worried. The
daughters had grown old and had to be married off. He was at his wits end and short of being
driven to madness. He was on the verge of losing whatever respect he commanded in the society.
Then he had to borrow money from the lenders by keeping his things as surety with them. This led
to him being lamented by one and all. Everyone said that if he couldn’t feed all the children he had
no right to produce them. Some days went like this and then the money lenders started visiting him
for repayment. When this became unbearable he decided to leave the house, the region and go to
some other place alone to earn money. He stayed there for two years where he served for people
who were undignified. After accumulating some money he constantly remembered his family and
went home. His wife and children were in a terrible state and were blaming him for their plight.
The take home point is when you can provide your own people everything they praise you and
when you can’t they blame you. You are condemned to be alone.