Dasbodh

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Dāsbodh, loosely meaning "advice to the disciple" in Marathi, is a 1654 bhakti (devotion) and jnana (insight) spiritual text. It was orally narrated by the saint Samarth Ramdas to his disciple, Kalyan Swami. The Dāsbodh provides readers with spiritual guidance on matters such as devotion and acquiring knowledge. Besides this, it also helps in answering queries related to day-to-day life and how to find solutions to it.

The book is written in verse form. It provides instructions on the religious life, presented in the format of a philosophical dialogue between a Guru and his disciple. The volume comprises 7751 owi and is divided into 20 chapters, each chapter consisting of ten sub-chapters. Each of these sub-chapters varies in the number of stanzas, but averages around 30-40 stanzas (ovi) per sub-chapter, with some being considerably longer. The book has been translated into several languages, including German, English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, and Sindhi.^[1]