THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

lessings of the Guru the experience of the expression of the Parbrahma inside you is well nigh
impossible.
END OF THE FIFTH SAMAS
THE SIXTH SAMAS – SHRUSHTIKATHAN (ABOUT THE UNIVERSE)
The audience asks a question of Shree Samarth, “The Parbrahma is
present before the formation of the universe but in an abstract form and then after the creation of
the universe it is occupied in everything. Is this true or false?” Shree Samarth says that Lord
Krishna has told in Bhagwadgeeta that he is distributed in parts to all the live forms. From this
angle the universe seems to be true. But this might be quoting Lord Krishna out of context because
the Upanishads say that whatever is visible including the live forms are liable for destruction. One
can infer that the universe is untrue from this. Shree Samarth says that if the universe is considered
to be true it is liable for destruction and on the other hand if it is considered to be untrue it is
visible; therefore to explain this paradox I would first describe it as it is.
There are millions of people in this world. Some of them are
knowledgeable and some are not which invariably leads to differences of opinions failing to satisfy
any hypothesis. Those who are deprived of knowledge believe that the universe is constant and
everlasting; God, religion, religious places and worship are true in the purest form. The
knowledgeable counter that worshipping only the images of God is foolishness, they further say
that it’s our own enlightened experience that only the Parbrahma is the ultimate truth. The next
question which they have to face is, if whatever you say is true then why do you do the daily
Sadhana, worship of the Guru and go on pilgrimages?
The knowledgeable answers these questions by saying that, Lord
Mahesh has told this secret in the holy Gurugeeta. First find out the Guru and know him fully well.
He has inherent in him the bliss of the knowledge of the self which has to be acquired with Sadhana
done with the application of wisdom. Gurugeeta says that the Guru is the Parbrahma and therefore
when we look at his real form the visible illusion disappears along with the feeling that this is true
and this is not.
The audience still is not happy and asks that it is absolutely wrong to
say that it can be inferred from Lord Krishna’s saying that the universe is true and put the blame on
him for saying this. Shree Samarth says that this has happened because you have not understood in
what context Lord Krishna’s saying was quoted. He has said in Bhagwadgeeta that he can’t be
destroyed by any armaments, can’t be burnt by any fire, can’t be drowned in any waters and can’t
be engulfed or swayed by any wind yet he says that his visible forms are subject to all these things.
To understand this one has to read between the lines. Lord Krishna is the Parbrahma so he in the
original abstract nature can’t even be seen but the things he created through the Maya can be. He
being the creator of Maya isn’t subject to the rules of the Maya whereas all his visible forms
including his own human form were and are subject to it. If you find it difficult to understand and
most of us do as it can be comprehended only through the enlightening experience of the self which
can be possible only through the blessings of the Guru. He is capable of removing this nonexistent
yet troublesome paradox very easily through his preaching in simple words and appropriate
examples. Shree Samarth gives another example from Bhagwadgeeta where Lord Krishna says that