THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

ased on wisdom which incorporates spiritualism with the correct way of leading the day to day
life.
7) Shree Samarth’s stress on wisdom and common sense in his philosophy is very rarely seen
in the writings of the philosophers of not only his times but those before and after him also. Only
Spinoza who was his contemporary from Europe also stressed on the same things which was
amazingly coincidental. Shree Samarth literally tore off the existing ideas about the God and the
Saints who were doing more harm to the society than good. He taught the society to depend upon
real life experiences than preformed ideas. His most favorite hypothesis was, “With the help of
wisdom and common sense anyone can expand his spectrum of vision thus becoming more kind as
an end result which will ultimately yield the real knowledge and Moksha”.
8) Shree Samarth had reached the highest pedestal of spirituality, yet he looked at the level of
the common man very sympathetically which is quite evident in Dasbodha. Common man aspires
to get to the God without compromising on his family life and money. Shree Samarth therefore has
told ways of attaining that without disturbing the life of anyone.
9) Many a critic has tried to find out the reasons why the Indian society has lagged behind.
Shree Samarth has given two reasons for it after deep thought. The first one according to him is
inept thinking and the other being lack of efforts. He believes that lack of wisdom and idleness has
led to this state of affairs whereas application of wisdom and untiring hard work are the ways to
remedy and correct the ways of the society going astray hitherto. The great Yogi Aurobindo also
has the same opinion.
10) He fully knew the worth and the power of literature. He says that those who will read
Dasbodha and employ the ways told in it will shed all illusions, desires, grief and gain in real
knowledge apart from becoming wiser. Those who were bound by the body and its pleasures or
otherwise will be freed from them. Fools will know how to at least protect themselves, atheists will
become staunch worshippers, the downtrodden will have a taste of piety, and all in all they will
have everlasting peace and bliss and will become the fittest candidates to attain Moksha. History is
witness to the fact that all that Shree Samarth prophesized literally got translated in to truth. Many
have achieved the ultimate in spirituality thanks to Dasbodha.
THE BEST POSSIBLE GOAL OF LIFE
There are innumerable forms of life on this earth. Every form has the
feeling of life and hence probably some semblance of power of mind if any, but it is the human
mind which towers over everyone else’s. The human mind has inherited wisdom of thousands of
centuries. Wisdom gives man the power to decipher what is meaningful and what is not, what is
everlasting and what is short lived, the truth and the wrongs and the soulful and otherwise. Wisdom
thus empowers you to follow the path of the meaningful, the everlasting, the truth and the soulful.
This then leads to the various ethos found in human life like just goals, values, idols, icons and
various types of knowledge. Finally one comes to know that the best goal to be pursued in life is
nothing else but to yearn for the God, the Atman, the Parbrahma which will definitely yield all of
them if the means employed are spiritually correct and this feeling of accomplishment is the most