THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

many a times in the Dasbodha tells that the only solution to this problem is following the path of
spiritualism. Spiritualism is nothing but living life for the God while constantly remembering him.
The God is the timeless flame of knowledge which resides everywhere in the universe, which is
unbreakable, complete in every imaginable sense, is the source of light making the luminescent
glow and hence is the cause of all the visible and the invisible. He resides in our heart, is our
Atman, and is everything for us. The Atman is with us right from the time of our birth till death, in
each action or inaction. Therefore it is possible to leave anything and everything in our life but it is
well nigh impossible to leave our Atman. All our problems have emanated from the fact that we
have forgotten our Atman and have paid all the attention to the body. If we succeed in remembering
the Atman all the time we will also come to know the continuous flow of life. Shree Samarth says
that leading a family life and leading a spiritual life are not different forms of leading a life. They
are merely two different views of looking at the free flowing life. According to him it is foolish to
separate family life and spiritualism. Both of them can and should go hand in hand. He even says
that a Sanyasi who is disillusioned with the family life has the right given by the religion to advise
those leading family life on matters where they seek it. Hence leading a family life and becoming a
Sanyasi are the two sides of the same coin. To gain a proper perspective of both one needs to
metamorphose one’s own mind to completely change one’s view of life wherein he sees both sides
of the coin simultaneously and what is more important, understands the interrelationship between
them. Our life itself is a continuous Sadhana. The life as already said is free flowing but is
obstructed by our pride, the feeling of me and also the feeling that it is me who is doing all these
things, which in turn divides this flow leading to duality. This finally leads to waves of disturbances
in the free flowing life. The vice of pride is bemusing. It has an end so has the mind but the
combination of both try to capture the God which obviously is impossible. It can be understandable
if one tries to get something by himself which he doesn’t possess but not putting his heart out for
getting something which is well within himself is a sign of foolishness.
The pride goes on vanishing by the continuous remembrance of the
God, the life becomes free flowing, you do your job but without ascribing it or crediting it to me,
this is sort of golden Sadhana. Shree Samarth calls this as the self realization, the consequence of
which is effortless Samadhi and all of it culminates into appearance of the Parbrahma for you to
experience. It is the gift of the God and the Guru. In the effortless Samadhi you are not there in the
body which is occupied finally by the Parbrahma. Whatever the outside world perceives as being
done by you is in fact done by the Parbrahma.
One who by effort kills the feeling of me experiences a peculiar
contradiction. In the earlier phases of Sadhana one is very enthusiastic about doing it but it is his
me who has to do it. After a point of time when he does the Sadhana correctly as told by his Guru
he realizes the abstract principle that unless he sheds off this me he would never get to the God. He
is again confronted with an insurmountable difficulty, for the solution of which he approaches his
Guru. His total surrender to the God and the Guru leads to their blessings leading to the effortless
Sadhana the fruit of which is Parbrahma. Shree Samarth firmly believes that once the me in you
goes away from your mind the God enters there and you then become the temple of the God
yourself. At this stage your life becomes utmost pious, utterly unselfish and totally meant for
others. Your life becomes seamlessly happy from within and without and the reflections of that are
seen in the lives of others who are in your company. Shree Samarth advises that such people should
actively organize the society and cajole them to adopt the correct path in their lives so that
everybody gets the same outcome as the fruit of their efforts. He also says that a family man who
after great efforts attains a stage wherein he can have self realization and can go in to the state of