THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE FOURTH DASHAK – NAVAVIDHA BHAKTI (NINE TYPES OF WORSHIP)
THE FIRST SAMAS – SHRAVANBHAKTI (WORSHIP BY LISTENING)
Shree Samarth praises and asks for the blessings of the Lord
Ganesha, Goddess Sharada and finally the Guru who is even beyond the ultimate Atman and who is
the Parbrahma himself. With their blessings he says that now he will be able to tell the nine types of
worships which the God likes. These are told by the religious books. The first of these is the
worship by listening to the, stories about the God, chanting of religious books and the lectures of
the Saints and Sages on the various paths of spirituality like the paths of, Karma, gaining the real
knowledge, worship, Yoga and Vairagya. One should also listen to the descriptions of, many
amusing things in and about this world, big places of pilgrimage, many types of Sadhana, different
types of people and their different ways of living, Yogis, people using mystical ways and
witchcraft, many ways of chanting the Guru Mantra one of the ways of which is to keep one’s eyes
open look in a horizontal line and try to see the Mantra which in fact is nowhere but with immense
concentration one can not only see it but one goes into Samadhi (Lord Mahesh had done this),
various types of Yogic exercises, anatomy, astronomy (Just imagine that Shree Samarth told this in
the 17 th century!), geography, biology etc., abodes of Gods, the various sciences including the
literary science, musical science etc., the virtues, medicines including herbal medicines and medical
science, the happiness in the heaven and the grief in the hell, various philosophies, many paths
leading to Moksha etc.
Shree Samarth says that one should listen to all types of things but
take only those which are beneficial and avoid those which are detrimental; this is known as the
worship by listening. One should also listen to the biographies of the God who appeared on the
earth in the bodily form and of his great disciples. By continuous thinking about the self one should
find out the invisible form of the God. Both are very pure and of utmost important on the path of
attaining Parbrahma.
Shree Samarth says that at the time when the mind of the Yogi starts
merging with the universal mind it acquires a micro quality yet becomes very broad which allows
him to have control over the elements comprising of the earth. This enables him to have varied
powers. These are: Going into the micro form whenever necessary, the art of becoming weightless,
going into the boundless macro form, getting anything desired, the state of fulfillment of all the
desires, getting control over all the living and nonliving, masterminding all the happenings in the
universe, the ability to make anything successful and being anywhere at any given time etc.
The gist of Shree Samarth’s preaching is that you should try to
become inseparable from the God.
END OF THE FIRST SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – KEERTANBHAKTI
(WORSHIP BY RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE)
Shree Samarth says that in religious discourse one should tell the
biographies of different Gods in their bodily forms, to stress on this aspect one has to keep on
talking continuously about God. For this, one needs to remember the contents and the messages of
many religious books. He advises that without religious discourse one can’t please the God. To