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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<strong>SHREE</strong> <strong>SAMARTH</strong> SECT<br />
Shree Samarth realized that till the foreign rule persisted there was no<br />
chance of healthy growth of the society. He therefore decided that unless there is change in the rule<br />
the society which had hit rock bottom in all fields wouldn’t improve and moreover till that<br />
happened there was no glimmer of hope for the religious upheaval. Fortunately precisely at that<br />
time King Shivaji was trying his best for uprooting the foreign rule with the sole aim of the benefit<br />
of the society. Shree Samarth got the person he was looking for in King Shivaji. He wanted all the<br />
people to help him in his endeavor with all their might. Shree Samarth wanted the people to be<br />
ruled in a proper manner so that they could live fearlessly, happily and then try and imbibe religion<br />
in the true sense of spirituality. He wanted independence not for the society to misuse it for it to do<br />
anything according its whims and fancies but for upholding the principles of morality and great<br />
virtues. For gaining independence he knew that he would require selfless people for which he<br />
started the new Shree Samarth sect of Sanyasis. These neo politicians were different from the<br />
others in the sense that others saw politics as their way of life to pursue their ambitions, often<br />
tainted with evil desires whereas the Sanyasis of the Shree Samarth sect were first accountable to<br />
the God and then to everything else which gave their work a halo of its own. He knew that for this<br />
movement to succeed the members of the sect had to have some platform from which they could<br />
raise their voice to be heard not only by the people but by the rulers as well. Therefore he<br />
established Maths (Holy places where like minded religious people could reside and work) at many<br />
vantage points. He was very choosey in appointing the heads of the Maths knowing fully well that<br />
anything wrong done by the head would ruin the whole movement. He selected people who were<br />
multifaceted; who were spiritually oriented, set high standards of morality and at the same time<br />
were able to work for the society and were very adept in politics too. All of them had a readymade<br />
role model to follow, Shree Samarth himself. He was of the opinion that those who get themselves<br />
labeled as saints but quietly sit amid people who are suffering from lack of knowledge, basic<br />
amenities, atrocities of the foreign rulers and extreme poverty without doing anything are a shame<br />
on mankind let alone be called as saints. Therefore he firmly believed that the saints should help the<br />
people in distress by their knowledge, piety, strength gained out of their Sadhana and by being one<br />
of them rather than maintaining an aloofness which most of the saints presumed to be their duty,<br />
yet what Shree Samarth perceived as a crime. He told this to all the heads of the Maths in no<br />
uncertain words. This way he blended an inseparable solution of spirituality, social work and<br />
politics. He saw to it that the people became fearless through the work of the volunteers of the sect<br />
who in fact were staunch disciples of Shree Samarth. This was probably the only example of a saint<br />
leading a political movement and that too a winning one. He thus proved to be unique amongst a<br />
galaxy of saints India ever produced.<br />
<strong>SHREE</strong> <strong>SAMARTH</strong>’S LITERATURE<br />
Shree Samarth wrote volumes of literature. To name a few, a<br />
condensed version of the Dasbodha, Karunashtakas, Sunderkand and the Yuddhakand of the epic<br />
Ramayana, many Abhangas and Owis, Poorvarambh, Antarbhav, Atmaram, Chaturthman,