THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Maya. This is the real affluence of the disciple because he has unflinching faith in the Guru. His
mind before he met the Guru was burning with all that he had to endure which is totally pacified by
the preaching of the Guru. He has so much faith in the Guru that he is not at all perturbed even if
the whole universe is set to turn upside down. The Sadhana told by the Guru when followed in its
entirety endows the disciple with indescribable powers by which he can even dictate the Gods. He
is metamorphosed to a totally different entity who is utmost pure and highly pious in all the aspects.
He becomes the candidate for the Moksha by right. Those who behave contrarily are treacherous
disciples and meet their destined gruesome end. These people are the wise and literate fools. They
want organic pleasures and follow spiritualism for just showing off, they make only a gesture of
submitting to the Guru for getting publicity. They know nothing of the micro thinking of
spiritualism as they are only interested in the macro. They become slaves of their own desires and
lust. For such people Shree Samarth gives a humorous simile, if you apply the best perfume to a pig
or sandalwood to a buffalo they would just fail to recognize it! It is therefore futile to teach such
people even the basics of spirituality. Shree Samarth gives so many other similes to stress this
point. Finally he says that if a person clings to his wife and says that he has accepted renunciation
as the way of his life he is making a fool of himself rather than impressing others which he thinks
he is doing!
Shree Samarth says that such wise literate fools can’t even imagine
that there is tremendous happiness in being close to the God and thus they remain happy in
whatever state they are just as the intestinal worms are in the excreta! He further says that one who
is a slave of the organic pleasures and is in fact very happy to take care and serve the prostitutes
can’t teach others the importance of moral character. If these people try to pursue spiritualism it is
beyond their reach yet they go on waxing eloquent about it and Shree Samarth despises them all.
Can’t the Guru help such people? He can, but for that these ones should feel repentant about their
deeds. Then they feel that they should really and totally submit to the Guru who then on realization
of their honesty blesses them and then these people can become freed of their sins if they follow the
Guru’s advice. Those who betray the Guru get the worst kind of the hell as it is the greatest sin.
Shree Samarth says that this repentance should be for ever and not a temporary one otherwise the
whole cause is lost.
Shree Samarth then describes other types of disciples who haven’t
been able to get over the material and organic pleasures but are wise enough to hide them from
others. They are intelligent and therefore are able to do all the things forbidden in spirituality yet
can teach others what it is! Shree Samarth describes them in all the details and finally says that they
are the worst kind of disciples and don’t deserve to be disciples of the real Guru.
Those who are still enveloped by the body mind intellect
conglomerate, under the illusion of the Maya, without a trace of Vairagya, without worship and
Sadhana, not ready to change themselves, jealous of others, greedy, full of desires and lust, miserly,
full of vices and untruthfulness, scoundrels and those who are happy in others time of grief are kept
totally away by the God. They realize their mistakes and misdeeds at the time of death when
nobody cares for them and leave them at the mercy of the almighty because of their earlier deeds.
Shree Samarth says that those disciples who are not at all having
these vices and in fact despise them have a great faith in the God and the Guru and their mind is
utmost pure which helps them in attaining the knowledge of the self or that of the Atman. They