THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

the proof of anything one believed in! Imagine that he was doing this in the 17 th Century, a period
during which even proven hypotheses weren’t accepted even in Europe! In this regard he was more
related to the scientific community of the 20 th Century than his contemporaries. It is difficult to
understand his vision by any flight or fancy of imagination. To have a realistic experience of the
Parbrahma Shree Samarth advises to follow the path of Sadhana during all the time. Sadhana is a
very difficult form of worship which has to be learnt through hard work. The only person who can
teach you how to do it is the Guru. One of the comic paradoxes of human life is that a time comes
when there are many authoritative persons available for guidance but there is a shortage of the
disciples! Anyway, Sadhana has two parts. One is the outer one and the other the inner. Performing
the religious rituals, reading the religious books, listening to the religious persons and always
chanting the name of the God or the Guru is the outer form of Sadhana. One’s prayer to the God
must be, “Hey God, thou are the real one I am unreal, your wish is my wish, I am an illusion you
are the vision, you have created me, you are maintaining me and you will take care of me even after
my death and I don’t do anything but you get it done through me”. The frequency of this prayer
should be increased to the utmost possible level and all the decisions and deeds of your life should
be left to the Guru or the God and you should lead your life just for the sake of it. This is the inner
form or the inner core of Sadhana. It is the most important part of the Sadhana in spiritualism. One
has to train one’s mind which by nature is always wandering outside to consistently be looking
inside, which requires extreme control over the mind which in turn is achieved by unwavering
indulgence in the study of the ways to contain the mind. He who can do this at will and actually
does it all the time is doing the real Sadhana and is called a Sadhak. The Sadhak who does this with
the blessings of the Guru ultimately gets the fruit of self realization. These are beautifully and
vividly described by Shree Samarth. He says that during the process of self realization the visible
body of the Sadhak remains as such for others but for him it goes out of the reaches of the universe.
The Sadhak abhors the hypothesis of the basic elements of life and the universe. There is a reason
for this. The experience of self realization is beyond any fancies of imagination and hence
indescribable. It may sound absurd but that is how it really is. It is not bound by anything save
anything. It is the smallest (as it is invisible to the naked eye) yet the largest thing in the universe as
it encompasses all. Only the Guru and you on account of his blessings are able to control it,
otherwise it is beyond the purviews of anybody’s powers howsoever mighty they may be. The
Sadhak gets unified with it with consistent study and Sadhana. Shree Samarth calls this as self
proclamation. In the beginning when the Sadhak begins his Sadhana he is different from the God
but at the end of it the difference vanishes and he becomes God himself. Despite this the Sadhak
knows that he has come to this stage through superhuman efforts under the guidance of the Guru
without which this would have been utterly impossible and therefore this achievement rather than
making him arrogant makes him more humble!
THE STATE OF BEING THE ULTIMATE
A man turns from being bound to being freed because of the vagaries
of life, the problems he has to face during his lifetime, some very good deeds he may have done in
his previous life or because of coming in contact with a great sage or a Saint. When one constantly
remains in contact with the Saints he knows how to be in the state of self realization. After reaching
this stage he should always try to reminisce about the self realization, think about everything with
the wisdom as yet unforeseen and then meeting the Guru remains but a formality. He then follows