THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

asic elements of life, find them out and reveal the hidden meaning of them coming together in the
making of you. When you get to that meaning which now no longer remains hidden you
immediately realize that what you thought you were is rubbish and the real you is something
absolutely different. Shree Samarth gives an explanation to this as well. While comprehending
different elements you experience that they go on canceling out one another if you are really
persuading them by getting after them, after this series of cancellations what remains is nothing but
the Atman which is the real form of you or everybody. The root cause of confusion is because we
firmly believe that I am my body and my mind and collectively forget the Atman. Vedanta tells that
the body and the mind are made up of the five basic elements which have created all the rest of the
things in the universe as well. At the beginning of the universe the first thing that was evident was
the gaseous state. This gave birth to immeasurable energy which converted the gases into various
liquids and water which in turn was responsible for the creation of the earth. When the universe
starts disintegrating this sequence is exactly reversed. Earth dissolves in the liquids, the liquids get
converted to gases consuming energy and the gases just vanish in the unlimited skies. (Mind well
this explanation of the origin and end of the universe has been given by the Vedas thousands of
years back!) This universal rule is applicable fully to the human body and mind. When we start our
excursion deep inside us all these five basic elements in the macro form vanish into the micro ones
which along with the mind disappear into the original Maya which as has been oft repeated is
nothing but an illusion. Therefore the thinking that I am the body doesn’t hold any water when
confronted with this philosophy. The complete and total disappearance of your own bodily and
mindful state is the real submission to the God.
The entire visible universe is made up of the five basic elements or
principles cited above. If one tries to evaluate them critically by application of the spiritual wisdom
all of them disappear signifying that they are untrue. What remains afterwards is your real self, the
Atman or in other words the Parbrahma itself. When this is the reality where is the place for the
feeling of being “Me”? The real and true basic elements are only two, the God and the feminine
part of the Parbrahma which originates after the Parbrahma gets the feeling of seeing itself in all the
possible ways. There is no place for your “Me” in this setting too. This baseless sense of pride
about the body and mind should be shown the door at the earliest. Submit all that is visible in this
universe to spiritual analysis and you will get nothing else but these two basic principles.
If one starts to look at this universe as an unbiased observer keeping
your real own self as the witness you feel that even these two elements have disappeared and what
remains is the pure Atman, the feeling of which if kept uninterrupted dissolves your state of being a
witness too. Hence one comes to know the reality that at the time of origin and after the destruction
of the universe only one thing is present and that is the Atman. In this scenario there is no place for
anything else, your body and mind are too small things to even merit a mere consideration. The
Atman is ubiquitously omnipresent in the universe. It is full of happiness and bliss and Mother
Shruti says that she is nothing but the Atman. In essence the real Me as thought by everyone is not
only present in you but is there everywhere, encompassing and enveloping everything with its
utterly blissful state, very happily unaware of the pride or any other feeling of the body or the mind.
The oft repeated question that troubles everyone and especially the
wise, “Who am I?” if directed at the Atman or the Parbrahma the only answer given is, “You are
“Me” and I am “You”. You have to read between the lines to get the real meaning exquisitely
hidden in this answer. Shree Samarth says that the Atman is not subject to any description as no
description can stick to it. There is nothing which can separate the Atman from you except your
own illusion. This bond is so unique that in the pure state of the Atman there is no existence for