THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

When the Guru blesses you, all your grief is gone for ever and you
become capable of having the God by your side all the time. All the great Saints, Rishis and Sages
of yore could get the knowledge of the self only because they had served their Guru and were
blessed. Even the Gods like Lord Ram and Lord Krishna served their Guru as any other disciple
should. Finally Shree Samarth says that those running this universe like Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahma
and Lord Mahesh too serve their Guru and ask for blessings and never boast of their powers.
Anyone desirous of Moksha should be on the lookout for the Guru without whom getting Moksha
is well nigh impossible. Shree Samarth says, “If you now ask me to describe such type of a Guru,
he isn’t the sort of a person readily available under the so called garb of being a Guru, but is the one
and only who is capable of delivering to you the knowledge of the self or the most pure form of
knowledge which I am going to describe in the next samas”.
END OF THE FIRST SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – GURULAKSHAN (THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE GURU)
There are some people who do a lot of things a common man thinks
impossible to be done like hypnotism, using mantras for getting the desired things etc. These are
mere masters of illusion creation who use their so called art to meet their ends and are if anything
harmful to the mankind. Some people get into their trap and think that they are the Gurus. It goes
without saying that they aren’t. The Guru is the one who is capable of taking the disciple on the
path of Moksha. Shree Samarth says that all those people who teach us about innumerable things
including our teachers of various disciplines and our parents are thought to be The Gurus but again
they are incapable of leading us to the Moksha. The Guru is the one who preaches about the
knowledge of the Parbrahma, removes the darkness of the lack of this knowledge and helps in
unifying our soul with the Parbrahma.
After birth the life in the body seems to be detached from its creator,
the Parbrahma. Maya is responsible for distancing the soul from the Parbrahma by putting
innumerable obstacles of the visible. The Guru bridges this gap. One is totally engulfed by the
feelings of the body and mind which constantly yield grief. The Guru shows the way to overcome
this attachment with the body and the mind. One by himself is unable to get detached from it
because of the lack of the knowledge of the correct path. All of us, the rich and the paupers are
running after the desires and lust which are unending but we can’t stop running after them by
ourselves as we are unaware of the means to stop their powerful flow, the Guru knows it and bares
it all for us. Lust and desire originate from lack of knowledge and lead to devious deeds which
become a reason for another birth, the Guru imparts knowledge which breaks the further sequence
of events. Guru goes step by step, he first tells you the knowledge in words then tells the hidden
meaning of them i.e. the Parbrahma which is all pervading in us, which is in fact your own self, so
the Guru finally makes you realize that It is in You! You are bound by form, mind, space, time etc.
whereas the Parbrahma is boundless. The Guru turns you into the Parbrahma just by his preaching,
puts an end to all your grief which only he can do as his powers are backed by his Herculean
worship through which he can get anything done by his mere words which are so mightily powerful
that they can enter your microform and even change everything inside you that requires
modification in order to reach out to the desired goal. Can any modern science do it? The answer is
quite evident and emphatic, No! Such are the profound powers of the Guru’s words.