THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

THE FOURTH SAMAS – BRAHMANIRUPAN
(UNDERSTANDING THE BRAHMA)
According to the Hindu religion there are four eons. The first consists
of 1.7 million 28 thousand years, the second 1.2 million 96 thousand, the third 0.8 million 64
thousand and the fourth that is the present one 0.4 million 32 thousand years. These 4 eons when
completed form one day of Lord Brahma, one thousand days of Lord Brahma form an hour of Lord
Vishnu; one thousand of such hours form a minute of Lord Mahesh, one thousand of such minutes
form half a minute of the basic power behind all the illusory visible, the Maya. It is now anybody’s
guess that this time count is beyond the comprehension of a common man. On top of this it is
mentioned that these eons repeat themselves again and again, meaning thereby that the whole
universe is created and destroyed every now and then, yet the only thing which remains there even
after the destruction is the thing which was there before creation, The Parbrahma which remains
unchanged during all these happenings. Shree Samarth says that when the Vedas and Mother Shruti
bow and accept their inability in describing the Parbrahma by any attributes or properties it is futile
to try it and therefore saying that the Parbrahma doesn’t change in any given circumstance is also
not correct but it has to be said to at least give some idea about it. He further explains that time can
measure anything which changes or moulds in any mode but when there is something which is
discreetly indescribable and is the absolute abstract even the time disappears as do all other
imaginable things, attributes and properties for there is no place for them in the abstract, that is
Parbrahma.
Now Shree Samarth talks about the last eon in which we are living
today. He predicts (300 years prior to our times) that in the coming years the classes in which the
whole society was divided for the sake of uniformity and to maintain harmony are going to mix up
and produce a society which would be a mixture of all the classes, which has been proved over the
last more than 100 years wherein the original races are though still there, there has been interracial
reproduction which may finally lead to extinction of the original races as has been the case with
many aboriginals.
In this world it is difficult to really find out the hierarchy if one
applies the criterion of greatness. As far as spiritual greatness is concerned some say that Lord
Vishnu is the greatest, some consider Lord Mahesh the best and some others say that the root cause
of the visible, the Maya is the greatest. These are the public opinions but as Mother Shruti says,
whatever visible is destructible including these Lords and Gods and the creator of this illusion the
Maya. In this scenario it becomes difficult for a common man to find out what is the real greatness.
The real and ultimate greatness has to be in the thing which is ultimately real and such one is the
only one Parbrahma which only the Saints, Sages and the Guru know and more importantly are
capable of conveying this knowledge to the disciples and thence to the society. They know by their
own experience that all that is visible is a mere illusion. (This oft repeated sentence has to be
understood at that particular point of writing by Shree Samarth in the context he wants it to be)
Shree Samarth gives a simple example of dreams to understand this. In the dream one might see
something unimaginably huge and in the dream itself he assumes that this is probably the greatest
thing in the world which he himself proves wrong after waking up! The only difference between
him and the really knowledgeable; and this is a big yawning one, is they know the truth whereas he
is constantly left groping for it till he is imparted that knowledge or given that special vision to
view it by the Guru.