THE DASBODHA BY: SADGURU SHREE SAMARTH RAMDAS ...

On seeing him the family members were very happy. Everyone
enjoyed the money for some time and then they started saying that although they are now in a
position to enjoy, what will happen when all the money that he has earned is spent? They therefore
decided that he should again go back and earn further more. Knowing their selfish expectations he
was disillusioned and realized that all the relations are like this only. Your wife will love you till
you are of help to her and no more; same is true for the children also. This is the rule of the material
life. Once the utility of a thing is over its fate is the dustbin. The fellow was tired with the work he
had done and wanted to spend some good time with his near and dear ones but they wanted
something else for themselves without any consideration for him. He came to know that laugh and
the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. He decided to keep aside his feelings and
prepared to go back again which was very painful for him but inevitable. At this juncture he
remembered his mother and realized that she was the only person who loved him unconditionally
but he had ditched her for the very people who were now sending him back to meet their own ends
with absolutely no thought to his miseries at all. He felt very miserable that when his parents
needed him the most he had thrown them out for at that time his lust for his wife and other women
was dearer to him. His friends were no different. He now knew that he had to bear his own cross
and it was he and he only who was left to fend for himself. He cursed himself for his own
condition.
He did realize all this but yet he couldn’t separate himself from his
body and its senses and demands and although highly depressed he still couldn’t get away from all
these illusions and delusions and after crying very loudly for a long while he set out telling himself
that crying is not going to solve any of his problems and he had to endure whatever awaited him.
END OF THE FOURTH SAMAS
THE FIFTH SAMAS – SWAGUNPAREEKSHA-D
(TESTING THE PROPERTIES)
He went to the same place again and started serving the same person.
He worked really hard without caring about his body and its needs. After earning enough money he
came back to his home and was aghast at what he saw. The area was undergoing a severe drought.
Some of his children had died along with their mother and others were but a pale shadow of
themselves because of the lack of food. He started to cry again and all of his family members
surrounded him. Whatever eatables he had brought were quickly consumed by them but because
they had not eaten for days together most of them couldn’t digest it and died because of overeating
and its complications like diarrhea, vomiting except for a few of them.
Somehow he and the children who had survived lived on the money
he had brought till the drought was over. Then there were rains and good times came back or so he
thought. He now got bored with the daily routine which he had to do for his children and himself
like cooking, washing etc. People advised him to marry again which he willfully did by spending
whatever money was still left. Again he had to go back to the same place to earn money for the
family. After coming back he saw that his children had grown up and were at loggerheads with his
third wife, their step mother. He was as always greatly in love with his third wife but now he had
become old. No one listened to him and kept on fighting amongst themselves for the money and the
ancestral property. Finally he called some wise men from the town and they distributed the property