Aptavani 09

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

Page 52

He becomes akward and obstinate. So much obstinacy! That is why there is so much suffering!
Therefore, obstinacy is the obstacle and not attachment moha. A person may enjoy the delusion moha once or twice but the third time around, he will get tired of it.
What happens if someone serves you a good meal with a upset and noncommunicative risavoo face? You will not like it, will you? Will you not say, 'The heck with your meal'? Even if diamonds are given to you with a upset and noncommunicative risavoo face, will you not say, 'Keep your diamonds to yourself"? So what has more worth, diamonds or a upset and noncommunicative risavoo face? Our people will not accept a diamond when given by someone with a upset and noncommunicative risavoo face. People of foreign countries will eat a meal even if the spouse is upset and noncommunicative risavoo but in India, the wife will get into trouble for doing that. Nevertheless, women in India will not behave this way. It does not matter in the foreign countries. There, even if a man were to give diamonds with a upset and noncommunicative risavoo, the woman will think, 'Let him upset and noncommunicative risavoo if he wants to. At least I get the diamonds.' What do you think?
Questioner: That is true.
Dadashri: So then, is not the value of not upset and noncommunicative risavoo at home worth more than the value of the diamonds?
Even a child will not let you touch his money. He will say, 'These are my rupees, give them back to me.' A person may be straight in one matter but obstinate in another, until that obstinacy is gone he will not become free. If obstinacy leaves, then it is possible to attain the state of a God. 'Dada' has become completely free from all obstinacy.
Everyone's obstinacy is of a different method and approach. What you state and consider as being obstinate, that obstinacy of yours you will not be see. If you can see your obstinacy, then you become a God. When one sees one's own obstincacy, one becomes a God. Even now, where can you see your own obstinacy? Otherwise, you would become a God.