THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

concerned with anything else except their own desires and lust, they are not used to talk or behave
kindly, they don’t perform worship, have no knowledge, Vairagya, don’t want to do Sadhana and
laugh at the wisdom of the Saints.
Baddha is the one who doesn’t know who he really is. He is totally
unaware of his real self and the Atman. He is devoid of any virtues and is full of vices. He takes
pride in doing all type of noxious things. His deeds are sins and nothing else. He is most interested
in organic and material pleasures and can go to any level to fulfill his desires and lust. He knows
many things about the family life but nothing about the spiritual one and hence is never happy.
Rather than praising the Saints he takes great pleasure in criticizing them. He always thinks of
money and women and never wants the companionship of the Saints, Sages & Rishis. All his
senses are concentrated towards gaining the unreal pleasures by any means.
He concentrates all his organs towards the acquisition of all his
desires and lust. He always is bothered about his life and continuously talks about his family. He
who had interest in spiritualism before but discarded it because of disturbed mind, grief and many
botherations is a Baddha. In short Shree Samarth says that a Baddha is engulfed by the so called
happiness of the visible when he is awake, sleeping and while dreaming so much so that he never
gets any time to think about anything else. This does change after the Baddha becomes the
Mumukshu.
END OF THE SEVENTH SAMAS
THE EIGHTH SAMAS – MUMUKSHULAKSHAN
(ATTRIBUTES OF A MUMUKSHU)
The Baddha has to suffer a lot of grief during his life with his family.
Then he starts repenting over whatever he did after listening to some Siddha. Then he is ultimately
bored with all that the family life offers and develops hatred towards the material and organic
pleasures. He now knows that whatever life he led was an illusion and therefore wants to utilize the
remaining life for some good cause. He starts remembering all the bad deeds that he did over the
period right from birth till this time and is full of repentance about them and prays the God for
forgiveness. Such a person who is really and honestly repentant about whatever wrong he did is the
right person who can follow the advice of the Guru and put into practice is known as the
Mumukshu.
He finally decides to follow the path of the religion with piety, wants
to have the company of the Saints, Sages and Rishis and is full of Vairagya. He acquires the
wisdom of common sense and that of what is essentially right and what is not. He starts to look for
his own faults with conscious purpose and criticizes himself for having them. He then gives vent to
his feelings of guilt by calling himself names for all the possible vices which he says that he
possesses. Therefore he wants the company of the Saints, Sages, Rishis and the blessings of the
Guru from deep within his heart.