THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

demands or explanations and they either make him understand the importance of acquisition of
knowledge or just beat him for the same purpose. If he listens he acquires knowledge and if he
doesn’t he remains a dud.
Then he becomes young enough to be married and the parents
arrange for it with much ado. Now this newly married fellow just forgets what his parents have
done for him and falls in love with not only his wife but starts believing in his in-laws more than in
his parents who are reduced to mere miserable spectators.
He feels that he is the happiest man on the earth in the company of
his wife. In the love for his wife he forgets everything save everything. With the experience of
organic pleasure his lust rather than being satiated gets bigger. He loses even the thinking power
and the common sense. Every time he looks at his wife he thinks about nothing else but about
sexual intercourse with her. Even when he is doing his job for earning his livelihood he constantly
thinks about his wife.
He can’t tolerate anyone talking anything about his wife. He even
throws filthy abuses at his own parents in defense of his wife. He is prepared to leave everything
for the sake of pleasing his woman. He forgets his religion and God also for her. He even feels that
his wife is next to God if not the God itself. All others except his wife are his enemies. All the talk
of anyone except his wife’s is nonsense for him. And suddenly sometimes his wife dies. He is now
totally drowned in grief. He curses everyone for the death of his wife. He behaves like a helpless
child and cries. After some time he forgets this also. Shree Samarth says that human mind is such a
thing which can forget anything to meet its organic or material demands, desires and lust. The
natural consequence and the right action for this man now is to marry again! He forgets how much
irreplaceable he thought his first wife was and loves his second wife even more than the first one!
He now starts feeling that whatever happened was for his good and he has now found a far better
option than the woman he was unnecessarily grieving for!
END OF THE SECOND SAMAS
THE SECOND SAMAS – SWAGUNPAREEKSHA-B
(TESTING THE PROPERTIES)
After the second marriage he forgets about the grief he had to endure
during the first one. He still can’t get over the illusion that married life yields happiness. Now he
acquires a new trait. He becomes very miserly and is terribly attracted by money so much so that he
doesn’t eat properly, never spends when it is utmost necessary and tries always to increase his
assets. This results in acquisition of all the vices. He doesn’t follow his religion and doesn’t allow
others to follow theirs. He throws profanities on the Saints and the Sages. He neither does anything
good nor let anyone do it. Whatever he doesn’t like, he not only refuses to accept but makes a
mockery of that also.
He refuses to accept the God and naturally his worshippers. He uses
his power to aggrieve others and talks rudely to hurt others. He has no moral or ethical values. His
pride is sky high. He stops following the religious rituals followed traditionally by his family. His
sole aim in life is acquisition of wealth and its magnification. He starts using any means, most of
the times unfair ones towards this end. He becomes uncontrollable in his behavior because of the
power of his wealth and youth.