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Such a person is very flexible. He will adapt and conform as is necessary. He will find liberation very easily. But the one with svacchand is inflexible and obstinate.
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Svacchand means deluded intellect. There is no one at fault in this world. Svacchand is your greatest fault.
The Lord had created a wonderful systematic mixture for the seekers of liberation and he had disclosed this mixture to all. He had given a formula for that mixture but today that formula has been destroyed. Nobody has that formula any more. Today, I am giving you the same formula again.
That mixture was composed of twenty percent scriptures, seventy percent for absolute humility and reverence for the Gnani and ten percent for worldly desires. However, people have emphasized the scriptures exclusively and that is why they have developed dysentery. The lord had said to shake the mixture and take it three times a day. But some luckless fools simply kept shaking the mixture three times a day and there were some that just kept singing, 'take three times a day after shaking the bottle'. They just went on reciting this in a parrot fashion.
This is just like making a medicine from an instruction book meant for doctors. People will not drink any medicine without first consulting a doctor because of the fear of dying. They fear dying in just one lifetime and yet they risk death of endless lives by drinking the mixture of the scriptures of the Absolutes (the Vitarags) like Lord Mahavir Swami. It has all become poison. The Lord calls it svacchand. It is nothing but blind activity.
Obstinate Ego: Inflexible Ego : Aadai
The path of liberation is extremely narrow and if you don't walk straight there, you will get stuck. There you will have to walk precisely according to instructions. You will have to
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walk straight and smooth. You wii have to be flexible, adjustable and without any element of obstinacy. Only then will you reach moksha. A snake too has to straighten in order to enter its hole.
The worldly life is perpetuated through obstinacy and inflexibility. Liberation is unattainable due to this obstinacy and inflexibility. The Lord has said that before becoming a sadhu (one who has renounced the world) one will have to become straight. No matter what level a sadhu has reached, what good is it if his obstinacy still remains? Obstinacy is a dangerously perverse ego. This obstinacy is so bad that even if the Real path comes your way to embrace you; it will not let you embrace it. Your stubbornness will reject it.
People have nurtured their obstinate ego more than their loved ones, and their own selves. Alas! Even more than nurturing themselves, they have nurtured their obstinacy and because of this obstinacy, they wander life after life. Obstinacy makes one blind and does not allow one to see the right path. Obstinacy makes one harbour svachhand, which is nothing but poison.
In the worldly life, obstinate people receive no respect. Only those without obstinacy are respected. So can obstinacy be tolerated in the path of liberation when even in the relative life it is a detestable quality?
Obstinacy will remain until Keval Gnan. Obstinacy is unpredictable in the path of liberation; it may arise at any time. You have to cross the ocean of obstinacy. You are standing on one shore of obstinacy and you have to cross over to the opposite shore. In this world you will get nowhere if you fight obstinacy with obstinacy. You can only get rid of obstinacy by becoming flexible and humble. Even a snake has to become *straight' to enter its hole. For liberation, you will have to become flexible and humble. You will have to destroy all your tubers and become abuddha (intellect totally replaced by pragna- the direct
