THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

When one gradually sheds off the bodily feelings he starts to evolve
and gets merged into the universal mind. You start perceiving the feelings of the seen and unseen,
living and nonliving and everything imaginable and even unimaginable through the medium of the
universal mind. The universal mind doesn’t have any shape or form of its own. It becomes visible
to the worshipper in its real abstract nature which even the Vedas have been unable to describe as
his Sadhana goes on increasing in the right direction. This also vanishes after the Sadhana reaches
its zenith. The universal mind is capable of doing anything but the faculty of creation doesn’t stick
to it. Everyone doing Sadhana should follow this ideology of the universal mind. He should do
everything but never aspire to take any credit for it or even think that he has done it, rather he
should always believe that the Parbrahma has got it done through him. He should not hurt anyone
by any means whatsoever, which is easier said than done but when you can do this you will have
done the biggest and the most fruitful spiritual ritual. Shree Samarth has time and again mentioned
this in the Dasbodha. The saints and the sages are able to turn the abstract universal mind into
recognizable form for the common man to understand it. Shree Samarth says that only those who
have done their Sadhana without expectation and who have all the aforementioned virtues can
imitate the saints and the sages.
SADHANA OF THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THYSELF
Our mind willfully accepts every truth without doubting anything.
We always feel that whatever we see, that is this world and the universe are also true and therefore
naturally accept it. We never give any thought to it anytime as our mind is ever ready to run
towards the attractive visible. We forget that the real thing, the Atman, is invisible, minute of the
minutest and is witness to all the happenings in the universe all the time simultaneously. We should
therefore try not to be attracted towards the visible but consciously make an effort to turn the
attention of our mind to the Atman. If we don’t do this then we will believe in the non existent
universe which is a myth and an illusion. The tool for making this change in our perception is
wisdom as defined by spiritualism. One very important thing has to be mentioned here. Many great
philosophers have lived on this earth but only except for seven of them no one else gave so much
importance to wisdom. The first one of them was Lord Krishna who told Bhagwadgeeta. The great
Sage Kapilacharya who formulated and explained Sankhyadarshan was the second. The fourth one
was Roman philosopher Platinus who died in 270 A.D. And the fifth one was the Aadi
Shankaracharya who revived the Hindu religion and left his mortal body at the age of just 32 years
in 810 A.D. The great Jew philosopher Spinozza who died in 1677 was the sixth and Shree Samarth
was the last one. Shree Samarth’s faith in wisdom is so unwavering and ultimate that he believes
that one can get to the Parbrahma with the proper and just use of wisdom even without any
Sadhana! The Vedanta preaching regarding self realization starts with the application of wisdom
but Shree Samarth through his vast experience in both the practical and the spiritual aspects of life
helps the worshipper in the middle and the end of the path of spiritualism. According to Shree
Samarth anyone can acquire wisdom if he has one or all of the three following attributes.
1) He should have done some holy work during his last life and because of that in this life he
realizes the falsehood of the life itself which leads him to the knowledge about the self.