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obstinacy is bestial. When a couple of wise men plead, 'Please listen to us,' do you know what he will say? He will say, 'No I find it hard to believe.' He exposes his obstinacy in front of us thus. Moksha will be attained only when that obstinacy goes away.
Necesseties for progress along the path of moksha
If someone tells us, 'Dada, bow down to all these people', then I would do so and I would do it five times over. We would bow down to even a vagrant person. 'We have ways to bow down in any manner that is necessary. 'We have a way to bow down to the Soul and a way to bow down to the vagrant. If he says, 'Do not bow down to the Soul, bow only to the vagrant,' 'we' would do that too. So then humilty is necessary. Complete humilty! The one who dissolves in water completely (egoless) will be blessed with the ultimate. If a lump (ego) remains in water, it means it has not completely dissolved and so it will just keep going round and round. Obstinate people will simply keep wandering round and round life after life.
As the worldly respect is established a spiritually elevated person will become more humble; his ego will not be evident, he will not be inflexible. Egoistic inflexibility akadai is a characteristic of an inferior human being. When a person attains this Gnan who will be inflexible? An inferior human being.. How can one have this Gnan and continue to remain rigid and inflexible?
The one who accepts the truth readily is called a straight sarad person.
Questioner: If we accept as the truth what some person tells us and follow through, we become vulnerable to be hurt, at times, no?
Dadashri: It is better to stumble fall and learn. If a saint says, 'I have full faith in human beings' someone may ask him, "What if someone deceives you some day?' He will reply, 'One man may swindle me, another may do the same, but some day I am bound to meet a man through whom my work will get done.' What does the saint mean when he says this? He is saying that through such subjecting himself to being deceived, his work will one day get accomplished. Those who avoid being deceived will wander around life after life and never achieve anything because they never trust