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Obstinacy is the only obstacle
Therefore, one needs to become straight. Do I have any problems, now that I have become straight? I have become straight as a result of taking so many beatings over contless lifetimes. Now there is no obstinacy at all. If you say 'Let us go down stairs', then 'we' will. 'We' do not have any obstinacy whatsoever. Someone may say, 'You are like this' or 'you are like that.' He is saying it to the 'one' who is that way. I would not tell that man he is wrong. I will understand who he is addressing. He is not saying that to 'me'. He is saying that to my 'neighbor'.
Questioner: Who is your neighbor?
Dadashri: This 'A. M. Patel' is the first neighbour. He is contractor also; income-tax payer also. He is addressing this neighbor.
They say that Gnan cannot manifest in the one who lives a worldly life. Hey, the income tax payer is there, and the contract business where bribing is commonplace is also there, and yet the Gnan has expressed! So then what creates obstacles in this worldly life? Your obstinacy is the obstacle. I had seen a lot of obstinacy in me. I became a Gnani after all the obstinacy went away. When no obstinacy remains within, then realize that you have become a Gnani.
Nature of obstinacy
Questioner: How should I understand the nature of obstinacy?
Dadashri: It is when one does not accept that which the heart accepts; and acts according to his own opinion and understanding. 'We' do not say anything to anyone or pressure anyone, and if 'we' ever do and even then. he does not accept it, then is that not his obstinacy? Is that not acting according to one's own opinion and will? Should he not be following the Agna (directive) of the Gnani?
Questioner: Really speaking, one has to follow the Agnas of the
Gnani.