THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE THIRD SAMAS – NAMSMARANBHAKTI
(WORSHIP BY CHANTING GOD’S NAME)
Shree Samarth says that one should continuously chant the name of
the God. It should be done ideally all the time when one is awake but if that is not possible then it
should at least be done in the morning, afternoon and in the evening.
He advises that whatever the state of mind or the situation one should
never leave chanting the God’s name. It doesn’t have to be taken at any particular time. No time is
a bad time for it. It should be done when you are happy or unhappy, without problems or in the
thick of them, while you are walking, talking, doing your own business or job, while eating, while
enjoying all types of pleasures. You should do it irrespective of the fact of whether you are rich or
poor. One shouldn’t allow the changes in the circumstances to affect your chanting of the God’s
name. One thing that people resorting to this type worship forget to do is to continue with it when
they become rich from being poor or when they turn poor from richness. This should never happen.
Chanting of the God’s name removes all obstacles from your path
and it takes you to a higher pedestal. All types of troubles vanish. The only clause for this is that
one should not forget to chant the name of the God not only all the time all the while but even
while you are dying. The great Sage Valmiki who wrote the great epic Ramayana even before Lord
Ram was born chanted his name in the reverse order (which in Sanskrit means, “You die”), but the
order automatically got corrected because of the continuous chanting and because there are only
two letters in the word Ram in Sanskrit. The greatest sinner of the yore King Ajamel took the name
of the God at the time of his death and that too because he wanted to call his son whose name was
one of the thousand names of Lord Vishnu, and he was washed away off all the sins! There are so
many examples of the worshippers getting Moksha due to just chanting of the God’s name, the
religious books are replete with them. Even heavy stones and other materials have been able to
remain afloat on the water as those using them were chanting the God’s name.
The God is highly pleased with this simple method of worship of
chanting his name all the time all the while. If you do it throughout your life you don’t require any
other Sadhana, such is the great importance of this type of worship. The importance of the chanting
of God’s name can’t be fully explained; suffice it to say that even Lord Mahesh could digest the
worst poison because of it. Nobody is prevented from this type of worship by the religion. Even the
illiterate and fools have benefited from it. This takes you from the innumerable troubles of leading
a family life and helps you to forget about the happiness or otherwise that you get from time to
time. At the end of it, it takes you to Moksha. Shree Samarth says that I have told this out of my
own experience.
END OF THE THIRD SAMAS
THE FOURTH SAMAS – PADSEVANBHAKTI
(WORSHIP BY SBUMITTING AT THE FEET OF THE GURU)
For getting to the God submitting to the Guru at his feet by both the
body and the mind is the fourth type of worship. This is done for breaking the cycle of birth and
death.