Aptavani 09

Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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The finest qualities of the innate nature prakruti are available to everyone , free, on the path to liberation. These are ultimate humility, extreme simplicity, instinctive forgiveness, total lack of obstinacy - these qualities can be regarded measures of progress.
To be aware of one's own obstinacies is verily called awareness!
Obstinacies may have lessened however if one has 'my-ness' mamata and he is absorbed in the worldly life only. Whereas, if there is no my-ness and if the subtlest obstinacies have ended, one will become a Gnani.
The root of obstinacy is ego. If one has faith in the opinion of people will only shape up if I remain obstinate and upset and noncommunicative risavoo', then obstinacy will not refrain from manifesting in the behaviour.
If you become obstinate with the Gnani Purush, you will not get any support or encouragement from Him. There, infront of the Gnani, one has no choice but straighten out! Obstinacies succumb and bow down to the one who is nispruha without any inclination. The one who has the virtue of being straight will naturally receive the grace of the Gnani Purush who is himself, completely straight in everything.
One is considered to have turned straight when he knows his own obstinacies. The obstinacies can be identified only if one has the Knowledge of the Self. And only then can obstinacies be reduced, and ultimately eradicated. On the other hand, the one who is obstinate will completely miss the whole path of liberation.
Obstinacy arises by making others do what you will, and by doing what others will, obstinacies become exhausted.
"To have the knowledge that 'the one who is obstinate is not l' is called Akram Vignan, the stepless path to Self realization, and the one who is obstinate is I and I have to straighten out', is called Kram, step by step
path."
~Dadashri