THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

and all the feelings associated with them to unify with the God. All these types of Mukti are there
for your taking when you worship the God with all your might.
END OF THE NINTH SAMAS
THE TENTH SAMAS – MUKTICHATUSHTYA (FOUR TYPES OF MUKTI)
Shree Samarth says that the Parbrahma is expressionless and
formless. There is no place in the Parbrahma for this visible illusion of the universe. From the
original Parbrahma a wave of pride emanated which gave rise to the five basic principles or the
elements, a process described in details in the tenth Dashak. This wave was very powerful which
gave rise to the biggest ever luminescence from which water was formed which is found all over
the earth. The earth itself is protected by the masters of the eight directions. There is a big mountain
at the center of the earth which supports the earth. Then he describes two of the most revered places
in India, the Badrikashram (Badrinarayan) and the Kedarnath as the places where the Saints and
Sages go to breathe their last so that they stand a better chance of getting to the God. (People in
Modern India visit these places very religiously) Then he tells that there are three great mountains;
each of them occupied by the three most powerful Gods of the Hindu religion Lord Brahma, Lord
Vishnu and Lord Mahesh. The place of Lord Brahma is called as the place consisting of the truthful
people, that of Lord Vishnu the Vaikunth and that of Lord Mahesh the Kailas (This Mountain now
is in China and is called so whereas the other two haven’t yet been found, which might be in some
as yet unknown terrain of the Himalayas) He describes these places as Heaven. (Any place in the
Himalayas is still known in India as heavenly and is stamped and acknowledged by foreign visitors
as such). All the Gods stay there. He says that words fall short if one tries to describe these places
and the people inhabiting them.
Then Shree Samarth describes the first type of Mukti as that one in
which people, who worship the God traditionally worshipped by their ancestors; get to stay with
that God. Getting to live alongside the Gods in their own land is the second type of Mukti. The
third type of Mukti is the one where you get the form of the God so that you become a demigod
yourself. In all these types of Mukti you get a chance, and just that, but you aren’t unified with
either the God or the Parbrahma. The time period for which you get this chance is proportional to
the amount of good deeds you have done when you were alive and once that is over you are born
again to undergo the same cycle of birth and death once more or may be for many more times. You
do enjoy the heavenly pleasures but for a limited time. Therefore Shree Samarth says that all these
three types of Mukti are subject to destruction whereas the fourth type is everlasting. In short he
means that if your worship hovers around only in the perimeter of the Maya, the expressed or the
visible and you never acquire the real knowledge then you get any of the first three types of Mukti
after death. At the time of destruction, the whole universe is destroyed along with the Gods and that
being so when the Gods themselves are subject to destruction the first three types of Mukti being
related to God are also liable for destruction and hence are short lived. The only thing that is never
ever destroyed is the Parbrahma and therefore constant yearning for the Parbrahma and the aim of
becoming unified with it after the unification with the God leads one to know thy real self and be
for ever in the state of remembrance of that Atman and/or the Parbrahma; yields the fourth type of
Mukti which is ever lasting as is the Parbrahma. In this Mukti you become finally united with the