Power of Words Leads to Wordless Power Atmaram by Samarth Ramdas

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I would like to extend my gratitude towards Ramdas Swami Sansthan, Sajjangad for publishing this book.

Especially I am thankful to Shri Balasaheb Swami, the 10th descendant of Samarth Ramdas through Ramdas' brother Gangadhar.

My heartfelt thanks go to Shri Bhushan Swami, the chairperson of Ramdas Swami Sansthan, who looks after publications.

It will be too formal if I thank the student Suraj Deshmukh, my son Sujat, and my nephew Rathin Deolankar for typing, suggestions, editing and the layout of the book. Especially Rathin has taken extra efforts for editing and proof reading.

I am especially glad for this because philosophy of Samarth Ramdas reaches in this way to the youngsters. Also for my previous books on Ramdas, my sons had cooperated with me sincerely.

I am extremely grateful to Samarth Ramdas himself, who inspired me to write on his verses. Practical life and a thought of spirituality go hand in hand in his verses. His verses take an eternal place in Maharashtra, India since four hundred years.

I am quite aware that the translation of literary and spiritual scriptures is like a portrait created from a camera. The beauty of the original literature does not reflect in the translation as is because each language has its own distinguished nature and beauty. However, it may reflect from a different angle.

When I translated 'Manache Shlok' in German in the verse form, the translated verses took a melodious form due to the simple style of original verses.

This is not the case of the verses in 'Atmaram' because I found that each verse in Atmaram is like a puzzle. I had to solve each puzzle in the translation. In that effort, the verses took a prose form.

However, the meaning and the content were more important than the structure. So, I retained the translated verses like a solved puzzle in the prose form.

"Atmaram means Soul is God. Samartha's verses in Atmaram describe and explain beautifully, 'how the Soul is God and why we should know it'. Samarth describes in one of the verses that Atman is Ram. We have to go beyond the realm of words, the realm of mystic experience, where thoughts stop and therefore words cannot explain that mystic experience. Because, what you can think, you can express in words.