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Dadashri: It is an effect, but only because the causes were created. How do causes occur? First comes the knowledge of obstinacy that says, 'If I become obstinate and inflexible, everyone will straighten out. I will become obstinate to sort everyone out at home. Obstinacy can be very useful'. One gets this knowledge first, and then the faith shraddha sets in. The faith in turn strengthens the knowledge. Knowledge without faith will not last, but when faith develops, the faith makes the knowledge stronger and then that obstinacy comes into conduct. Then all the fun (!) begins!
Everyone's obstinacy is different
Questioner: Everyone does not have similar obstinacy, do they?
Dadashri: Every obstinacy is of a different kind. Are all vegetables the same? There are all kinds of vegetable, obstinacies too are of different kind. Everone's soup kaddhi is different and varies; everyone's height is different and so is their color. Is everything not different?
Obstinacy leaves when one gets this Gnan. If obstinacy remains in a person, can one not see it within? No one wishes to hang on to their obstinacy or to keep it safe in a bank vault!
Those obstinacies will end
Questioner: We are unable to adjust even when we make a decision to adjust. What is the reason behind this? Is it due to our obstinacy or does our vyavasthit not allow our efforts to succeed?
Dadashri: No, it is because obstinacies are still there. It is all obstinacy. For the one whose obstinacy is gone, all the entanglement clears. Your obstinacy is starting to leave and one day it will end. This is because the faucet of the tank is wide open and running and nothing new or more is coming into the tank and that is why one day the tank will empty. From now on, nothing new is taking place in your factory of obstinacy and your old ones continue to dissipate. One obstinacy will surface and will come to an end, then another will come, it will clear and a third one will surface. Obstinacies that come to surface will leave.
Straight and yet there were subtle obstinacies