THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

that you finally realize that there is nothing else but the Parbrahma which wasn’t appreciable for
you because of the inter reactive elements of the Maya.
The experience of the Saints, Sages and Rishis is the same that is the
God is beyond the basic elements of life and the entire visible universe is untrue. This God or the
Parbrahma is the only permanent thing, all others being temporary. All the enlightened know this. It
should be kept in mind that the real God or the Parbrahma is beyond any imagination and hence
beyond the thinking that it is there in everything that the universe contains and also beyond the one
that dissolving them one after the other will yield the Parbrahma. Shree Samarth has mentioned this
for the Siddha who might stop after having distilled out everything and found the filtrate, the
Parbrahma which may lead to their downfall since despite reaching it one should continue the
Sadhana for ever to remain in unification with it.
Shree Samarth says that imagination originating from the Parbrahma
is but one, yet it gives rise to eight types of nature. First is of imagination itself, second of the
words, third is the one we see of the living and nonliving without any modification, fourth is the
one of the fine arts and creation of material things, fifth is of the dreams, sixth of the sky with
various changes in it, seventh of illusions and delusions on account of disease/s and the eighth is of
hypnotism. All of them being creations of imagination are utterly untrue.
The Saints and Sages consider this universe as destructible for these
reasons. Despite this Shree Samarth advocates the worship of the God in some form as a means to
divert the wandering mind towards Sadhana. Without it the mind refuses to forget about the body
and also to concentrate on the ultimate aim and therefore Shree Samarth dogmatically advises
worship of the untrue form of God in the untrue universe for the disciples who haven’t reached the
state of the Siddha.
Shree Samarth says that along with this worship one should always
behave according to what his inner voice and wisdom say and what the great students of
spiritualism with whom one should spend as much time as possible ask for. He is again dogmatic
here that worship of the God in any form, wisdom of knowing what is good and what is not and
companionship of the Saints and Sages does lend you the ultimate knowledge provided of course
you are blessed by the Guru. (In fact it is no one else but the Guru who arranges all these things for
you, you just have to recognize them and accept them without any doubts whatsoever). He in fact
says that if you don’t do this you will remain confused throughout your life.
Here the audience asked Shree Samarth to elaborate on the point of
visibility of this untrue and nonexistent universe to which he readily agrees.
END OF THE SIXTH SAMAS
THE SEVENTH SAMAS–SAGUNBHAJAN
(WORSHIPPING THE ATTRIBUTABLE GOD)
The audience asks, “When one acquires the knowledge of the self he
experiences that all the visible is untrue then why do you advocate worship and Sadhana? If the
final truth is without attributes then why to worship the thing with attributes? When everything
visible is destructible why sing the praise of the God with form? Who will worship the attributable
when the truth is without attributes and form? Why should one faithfully follow this as a ritual
despite knowing the ultimate truth? Why should one knowingly follow the religious rituals