THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

e afterthoughts but one is left singing the praise of Shree Samarth as he had done this during the
era of Brahman dominance, which demanded courage of the highest order and preparedness for any
eventuality. He further says that without this knowledge of the Atman you are again drawn into, the
cycle of birth and death, endless grief, drowning in the untrue ocean of the visible and therefore to
avoid all this it is a must to submit to those Saints and Sages who have the knowledge of the Atman
and the Parbrahma.
Shree Samarth says that many people do a lot of things (He has given
a list of them) very religiously and very rigorously too but they fail to get beyond the feeling of
their body and the mind because the very reason behind there doing is some expectation which may
be fulfilled to some extent by the God as a reward for their hard work but they can’t ever hope to
even have a glimpse of the Parbrahma for the first requirement there is the avoidance of the
feelings of the body and the mind. He says that all these things may be great deeds indeed from the
religious point of view but they are futile as far as the ultimate knowledge of the Atman is
concerned. If someone does a great deed which for all may be beyond the flight of fancy but if that
has been done with an expectation, say, he should get an entry to the heaven after death; then the
God might do accordingly and allow him in the heaven but that is a sure way of inviting another
birth and death cycle because the deed was done with some expectation of the fruit whereas in the
territory of the Parbrahma there is no place for such deeds and the people doing them. Shree
Samarth further says that if someone works very zealously throughout the life and gains all sorts of
knowledge of all the possible things he still remains quite distant from the knowledge of the Atman
which can be attained only through the Guru (The reason being only the Guru has the capacity to
tell it and the way to get it as he has treaded the correct path and achieved the desired and destined
aim of unification with the Parbrahma). The crux of the matter is all the deeds done within the
spectrum of the visible will yield only the visible fruits and one has to go far beyond this visible
spectrum to achieve the invisible, indescribable and the indestructible Parbrahma. Everything done
within the spectrum of visible thus may yield you either the heaven or the hell depending upon the
type of work done by you but never the Parbrahma which remains as elusive as ever without the
blessings of the Guru.
Shree Samarth says that without the realization of the self every so
called deed goes waste. All types of knowledge without the knowledge of the self are no
knowledge. Your every deed should consciously be done with the motive of attaining this
knowledge of the self otherwise you unnecessarily bear the burden of doing these deeds. This is
easier said than done and therein is the importance of the Guru. Without the blessings of the Guru
you may most probably wander all over the place yet won’t find the aim just as a blind is always
likely to lose his way if he doesn’t ask for any help for him from anyone. The Guru gives you a
totally different vision from what you had till then. This is the vision of one who is in search of the
real self, the Atman, the Parbrahma. The meaning of Guru’s blessing is nothing but the fact that he
metamorphoses the disciple’s thought processes which were till then centered on the meaningless,
nonexistent conglomerate of body and mind to a focused view targeting only the Atman and the
Parbrahma where he finally realizes that everything is but one, the Atman, the Parbrahma. This is a
totally selfless point of view given by the Guru which is so obvious in most of us by its
conspicuous absence. This view thus can give you nothing but happiness. If there is no Guru the
vision remains myopic leading to a mere wastage of the life so kindly offered by the God, a life full
of grief and an ever restless mind.