THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

utensils, clothes, flowers and jewelry. It should be done by meditating and keeping the God’s cast
sculptures made of various metals or any other material in the mind.
One should also perform Pooja of the great Saints, sages and of
course the Guru. There are many Gods in the Hindu religion and the God one loves most either for
personal reasons out of experiences or by family tradition should be offered Pooja with all the
necessary things.
All the religious family traditions and the rituals which are being
carried out by the ancestors should be respectfully continued. One is not supposed to ridiculously
question the validity of the ancestral wisdom.
One is also supposed to visit various places of pilgrimage and not
only offer Pooja there but also give whatever one can to increase the beauty of that place or for
renovation or for any other cause there which warrants immediate remedial measures. There should
be no two thoughts about this. Shree Samarth has given a big list of things which can be served to
the God. Suffice it to say that anything useful for the mankind should be considered a good offering
to the God as the God wants these things to be ultimately utilized for the poor and the
downtrodden.
The real Pooja is done through the body, speech, mind, wealth and
ultimately by placing your life at the feet of the God. One should say to the God while offering the
Pooja, “There is nobody for me except for you”. The same is true for the Pooja of the Guru, in fact
even more so. If for some unavoidable reason one is unable to do the Pooja by all the rituals the
Hindu religion permits Pooja done through mind. The best way to do it is to imagine that you are
following the rituals when you are in fact not i.e. you are not offering flowers but in the mind you
tell yourself that now I am offering them to you My Lord. The God and the Guru are so kind that
they accept this as the real Pooja.
END OF THE FIFTH SAMAS
THE SIXTH SAMAS – VANDANBHAKTI (WORSHIP BY NAMASKAR)
One should submit before the God, Saints and Sages by saluting them
as is traditionally done in India for showing respect to elders and called Namaskar. Namaskar
should be offered to the Sun and of course to the Guru with full faith and belief. When the
Namaskar takes the form of total submission it is offered by fully prostrating your body before the
God, the Guru and the Saints and is called as Sashtaang Namaskar.
Namaskar should be offered to Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh with
whose appearance in front of you all of your sins are washed away. The same is true with the
Namaskar to Hanuman. It should be offered to great disciples, knowledgeable people, and people
with Vairagya, those who have experienced the inner self, Yogis, great men from any walk of life,
those who know the Vedas, religious and other sciences, and Pundits. It should be offered with the
firm feeling that there is a part of God or the Guru in all of them and by offering them Namaskar
one is in fact offering it to the God or the Guru. The nicety of this feeling is that the inner self who
is hidden in the visible becomes visible with little effort.
By offering Namaskar one becomes humble, loses pride and ego, is
freed from vices, and is able to get forgiveness for even the greatest of blunders and friendly with
even with those who unnecessarily think of you as an enemy. The person to whom Namaskar is