THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

they are not the body but the Atman thereby he forgets about his body and concentrates on the God,
the disciple to have no doubts about his existence and a firm faith in it, the disciples to love the
spirituality so that they go about it with persuasion and perseverance, to be remembered all the time
by any ways or means like, chanting his name, religious scriptures, reading about his life, books
about him, performing his Pooja, offering him Namaskar whenever possible, serving him with all
your might, singing songs of his praise, listening to the stories about him which automatically gives
you the company of the story teller who is invariably on a higher stepping stone towards Moksha,
all this helps in making your mind pure, this leads to a state where you are involved in the chanting
of the God’s name deep inside your mind, and other forms of the worship outside, the God also
likes divine singing. One should consciously start liking what the God likes and with this practice
he would subconsciously start doing that. The advantages of doing this are many, the most
important being, when the Parbrahma appears in the bodily form the disciple can communicate to
him in a better manner. The nicety of the various types of worship is that it teaches how to utilize
the humanitarian in us for getting to the God.
To get the friendship of the God one has to relinquish the bodily
pleasures and even the body too if the need be. It is selfish to say that the God is for my happiness,
this feeling has to be rid off, rather one should always say and feel from deep within that I am for
the God. That is the sign of the true worshipper. The real friend of the God always, thinks about
him even when faced by adversities, is bothered about how to increase the popularity of the God,
spirituality and the ways to attain him, behaves in a way which by itself is evident of his ways of
keeping the God at the center of everything, concentrates all the forces of his life towards the path
of the God, never hesitates to even part with the most loved ones for the sake of the God, all in all
Shree Samarth says that one should be ready to give away everything that one has including one’s
own life for the sake of attaining the friendship of the God. There is nothing like partial friendship
with the God, there is no place for selfishness in this relationship yet if one is ready to call him with
all his might notwithstanding and with only the yearning to be with him then he is the most easily
available costliest and most sought after friend.
Being a friend of God is a very tender and lovely feeling which like
any other love is full of sacrifices and is therefore capable of changing one’s views on morality and
ethics. God should be considered as one’s own life and what one does for keeping one’s life going
should be done for God also. With the furtherance of this feeling God becomes your life and vice a
versa to an extent that one doesn’t understand whether one is for the life or for the God. This is the
ultimate feeling in love and when one has this towards the God then his friendship and love for the
God has reached the final frontier, the zenith and the altar of it. If one loves the God with this much
intensity the God too starts to look after him with the utmost care. All this is like the echo, you
submit everything you have to the God and the God will not only give everything back but all that
is unimaginable in any type of friendship and love.
If your feelings towards the God are so much intense that you have
forgotten everything else but him and if there is no one but God for you then he is the most readily
available friend, philosopher and guide who comes to your help without being called for at the right
time and the right place. If you are bored with him he too is. It therefore is reciprocal, but nobody
should think that this is another give and take business, rather far from it. Here, the God when
loved and made a friend never asks for anything despite being given everything and not only gives
all the offerings back but gives far more than that. If you are bored with him he won’t take the
offerings, he will still give those back and even help you when called but he may not come to your
rescue without you calling for him. He is just thirsty of the water of love. His love towards us isn’t