THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

Shree Samarth says that the Mumukshu realizes that whatever he did
till then was the play of his intelligence and the flight of his imaginations both of which never yield
any happiness and therefore wants the blessings of the Guru.
He then totally submits himself to the Guru with utmost faith and
belief. He now firmly knows and believes that he is the most despicable creature and only the Guru
can change his course of life and therefore does everything that the Guru preaches. Shree Samarth
says that these are the few attributes of the Mumukshu and the attributes of the Sadhak will be dealt
with in the next samas.
END OF THE EIGHTH SAMAS
THE NINTH SAMAS –SADHAKNIRUPAN (ABOUT THE SADHAK)
One who leaves behind all the vices and has opted to remain in the
company of the Saints is a Sadhak. The Saints then assure him of all the benefits of the state of
being Sadhak. The Saints preach him the knowledge of the Atman which makes him realize that he
is not bound by the rules of the family life and therefore he does Sadhana for this knowledge to
remain etched in his being. The Sadhak likes to listen to anything about the spiritualism, the
explanation of absence of duality and also likes to deeply think over the abstract micro knowledge.
The Sadhak is the one who, listens to explanation of the wisdom of
what is Atman and what is not, has no doubts about the importance of the knowledge of the Atman
and therefore tries everything possible to acquire it, leaves behind the feeling that he is the body
mind intellect conglomerate and imbibes the feeling that he is nothing but the Atman, listens to the
Saints to further strengthen his beliefs and faith, totally avoids the illusion of the visible by clinging
to the knowledge of the Atman and the bliss it yields, breaks the unwanted appendage of duality
and by doing Herculean Sadhana as per the preaching of the Guru and tries to unify with the
Parbrahma and also to remain in the state of Samadhi for as long as possible.
Whenever there is paucity of people willing to acquire the knowledge
of the Atman the Sadhak first experiences the enlightenment of the self and convinces others to do
the same, with the application of wisdom he frees himself from this illusory visible, tries to acquire
the virtues of the Saints and with study becomes unified with the Atman.
He is the Sadhak who, wants to acquire virtues and leave the vices
behind, studies all that is good, thinks deeply over the real self, has full faith in the Atman and
knows the illusion of the visible and therefore is always in the state of unification with the real self,
finally removes the Maya from his mind and studies and acquires the abstract Atman, knowing that
the real self in micro form avoids all the macro ones and goes thoughtfully into the micro one
which is not accessible to the human mind without the help of the Guru which he takes every now
and then, then never leaves that state which is indescribable and unseen, this knowledge of the self
is the most difficult one to acquire of all but he is able to cling to it by self enlightenment,
experiences it with deep and consistent study and unifies with it, knows all the aspects of the