THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

perpetual problems. This feeling should come from within the heart and with uttermost subjugation.
If this is done in the right earnest the God does save them from all.
The rule here is that the number of times the disciple remembers the
God is directly proportionate to the times that he comes to your help. Don’t confuse this as a give
and take business. It is only too evident that the God asks only to remember him and not anything
else and is prepared to do yeoman tasks for you in return.
God knows how to further the friendship with the disciple as he is
also thirsty for this unique kind of relationship. That is another great reason to be in contact with
the God through his friendship consistently. Once one develops real love for the God it never
diminishes, on the contrary it goes on increasing to an extent that one ceases to be a separate
identity from that of the God. This is the ultimate stage of worship through friendship with the God
which yields the Parbrahma. It goes without saying that whatever has been said about the God is
applicable to the Guru as well.
END OF THE EIGHTH SAMAS
THE NINTH SAMAS – ATMANIVEDANBHAKTI
(WORSHIP BY SUBMITTING THYSELF WHOLLY TO THE GOD)
The ninth type of worship is submitting yourself totally and wholly in
all aspects to the God; leaving everything to him as far as you are concerned. There are three things
involved in this. When you give your all to the God you do so with utmost love and respect. Once
you give anything you consciously break all the attachments with that and then you just forget
about it and are not bothered about what happened to it afterwards. You have to find out what has
made you as you are, after this expedition of finding out the basic and eternal things which have
made you, you land up with the fundamental elements which explain to you what is meant by
submission to the God.
Shree Samarth says the contradiction in being a worshipper of the
God despite fully rejecting the dual existence of the God and him may confuse you but hastens to
explain that this contradiction is philosophically untenable. This confusion may stem out in those
who have taken the worship only superficially and have never thought over it deeply enough. The
answer given by Shree Samarth is by no means easy to understand but if one applies the philosophy
of the Soulfulness and Soullessness then one knows that one who is not any different from the God
is the real worshipper and others are simply and plainly not. Then where is the question of duality?
To understand this fully one has to think and ponder over the theory of Soulfulness and
Soullessness. This is called as comprehensive explanation of the basic principles.
To know this theory and imbibe it one has to realize what is meant by
God through his own knowledge and application of it. One has to find out the real him hidden
deeply inside which is a must to understand the unique two way equilibrium existing between the
real worshipper and the God. Shree Samarth is almost adamant in this respect that one has to
literally step upon the innermost labyrinths of mind to know who he really is with consistent efforts
paying no attention to failures in doing this which are ever so common. Once you acquire this
knowledge the knowledge about God just awaits you by the side. The most frequently asked
question in spirituality is, “Who am I?” which seems like any other easy query but is so very
difficult to answer in the sense that even the most wise and knowledgeable have to spend many
lives in finding out the correct answer of this oft repeated question. For this one has to dissect the