Though Shree Samarth so staunchly believes in wisdom and common sense, that doesn’t put hindrance in his belief in the realization of the so called abstract, like realization of the self, Atman and the ultimate Atman i.e. Parbrahma. Yet it is astonishing that he was very insistent to the point of being adamant in not believing in anything till one experienced the proof of anything one believed in! Imagine that he was doing this in the 17th 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 20th 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!
Though Shree Samarth so staunchly believes in wisdom and common sense, that doesn’t put hindrance in his belief in the realization of the so called abstract, like realization of the self, Atman and the ultimate Atman i.e. Parbrahma. Yet it is astonishing that he was very insistent to the point of being adamant in not believing in anything till one experienced the proof of anything one believed in! Imagine that he was doing this in the 17th 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 20th 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!