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inflexible? You will realize your obstinacy when some day it surfaces from within. Another way to realize your obstinacy is when you come to the Gnani Purush; you will be surprised to learn how much obstinacy remains within you.
Will you not have to become straight?
Questioner: Why does obstinacy not go?
Dadashri: How can it go? It has made a home within you for many days and then there is unwritten renter's law of our land; a renter never leaves once he rents your home. So is the obstinacy that has entered you ever likely to leave?
I told one person, "Why are you being so obstinate? Be less obstinate!" He said, "One cannot survive in this world without being obstinate." I told him, “Even a snake has to straighten up to enter its hole, so become straight if you want to enter moksha. If not, then people will straighten you out and then only you will be able to go to moksha. People will beat you and straighten you up. So what is wrong in becoming straight yourself?” Do people not beat and make us straight?
Questioner: They do but even then people do not straighten up, do
they?
Dadashri: But there is no choice except to straighten up sooner or later, is there? Obstinacy will leave on its own once you have a bitter experience. There exists endless obstinacy. One has never met anyone to straighten him out in any of his previous lives, and if he had, then he would not wander in this manner. So everything happens, but he does not remain straight. What does the world do? It keeps beating him to the point where he straightens up. If he does not straighten up, then his wife will beat him, his children will beat him, and the word will beat him into becoming straight.
I became straight and wise after taking beatings from people for so many lives. Just behold, when I became straight forward, then this Gnan expressed within, did it not? I too was not straight. The world will straighten you out. Those who are not straight will one day have to become straight. However, people remain obstinate even in their old age. This