THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

have not read, are in the habit of finding minor faults in great works, become bored when someone
tries to tell the real signs of wisdom, do all sorts of noxious things out of hatred and jealousy, are
never bothered about morals, ethics or justice, are arrogant, aim for unattainable things in the pride
that they are greatly knowledgeable and who talk something which is exactly opposite to what that
do.
Such fool is a one who, wants to become a good orator without
possessing the qualities required for one, talks unnecessarily when none is listening, whose talk is
very harming, despite being versatile is highly talkative and disturbs the real orator’s speech, talks
about the vices of others without paying attention to the vices of his own, even though
knowledgeable are useless for the society for the fact that he is not ready to share his knowledge
and he can’t satisfy the others, despite possessing the ability to attain Moksha remain entangled in
the material and organic pleasures of the family life, is very satisfied in the company of women,
bares his soul to them, eats or drinks things prohibited by the religion, doesn’t know that he is
doing things which are going to bring bad name to himself, feels that his body is the real thing and
not the Atman, praises everything else but the God, praises anyone who can be helpful to him in his
conspiracies, describes the body of women in great details, imitates women, if he is rich considers
all others worthless, preaches things contrary to the religious preaching, indulge in astrology which
is highly illogical, has never treaded on the path of worship, is devoid of Vairagya, preaches the
knowledge of Parbrahma yet behaves totally contrary to it, scoffs at the places of pilgrimage, Vedas
and various sciences, is a descendant of the very pure yet by behavior brings shame to his
predecessors.
A person of this type is one who, praises the undeserving to serve his
own ends and once they are met with immediately turns his back on them and talks derogatorily
about them, talks something and behaves to the contrary as a habit with others, respects the family
and disrespects spirituality despite knowing the fact, gives incorrect advise just because it pleases
as the correct one may offend, leads a dependent life, guises to be a good person in all the aspects
but does all the bad deeds under that garb, doesn’t leave his blundered path even after knowing it to
satisfy his ego, doesn’t get rid of his vices though he knows what are the virtues, talks harshly to
the Saints and Sages to prove his superiority, doesn’t even know what would benefit him and what
would do harm, advises people to follow the path laid down by the religion when he himself treads
on the path which the religion has forbidden, knows that his disciple has slipped from the path of
spiritualism and has even insulted him but hopes not for the disciple but for himself that he would
come to him to find that path, can’t tolerate others’ daily chores or any other disturbance because of
the others’ bodily demands (even a slight bit of coughing) during his discourses, insults the Guru in
the pride of his wealth, doesn’t reveal his Guru’s traditions and uses his knowledge and spirituality
selfishly and in a miserly manner to gain wealth.
These people hate the God despite having failed miserably in all
walks of life and in spirituality, all because of their own incompetence. Shree Samarth says that I
have told all this with the intention that you would avoid behaving like these people and asks for
forgiveness if he has hurt someone in doing so. He also says that greatest of the fools is the one
who still believes that all the happiness lies in the family life for it is the root cause of all the
unhappiness and miseries.
END OF THE TENTH SAMAS
END OF THE SECOND DASHAK