Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Aptavani 9
Obstinacy (aadayee) : Sulking (risavu):
Manipulative tantrums (tragu) The Gnani Purush's words are worth
understanding The Gnani Purush's words are actually straight. Moksha (liberation) too is straight. Everyone is allowed into moksha; it is not as if someone is barred from it. However, one must be worthy of it. It is not possible to attain moksha if one walks a crooked line. Therefore, why not become straight from the very start? Moksha is not difficult to understand, but it helps to know what the Gnani Purush is saying. If you do not understand what He is saying, you will become confused. The words of the Gnani Purush remain true for all times, the past, present and the future. Any word the Gnani Purush utters is exactly what the Tirthankaras (fully enlightened beings who liberate millions) have said.
You should follow the instructions of the Gnani Purush. Why? Who can be called a Gnani Purush? It is the one who is straight in every way. He is straight while insulting and straight while being insulted. However, when He does insult, He does not truly insult because He is straight to begin with, so how can He? 'We have become frank and guileless right from the start. And as far as you are concerned, you will have to get rid of your obstinacy (aadayee), will you not? How long can you go on
being obstinate and inflexible? You will realize your obstinacy when some day it surfaces from within. Another way to realize your obstinacy is when you come to the Gnani Purush; you will be surprised to learn how much obstinacy remains within you
Will you not have to become straight?
Questioner: Why does obstinacy (aadayee) not go away?
Dadashri: How can it go? It has made a home within you for many days and then there is the unwritten renter's law of our land; a renter never leaves once he rents your home. So is the obstinacy that has entered within you, ever likely to leave?
I told one person, "Why are you being so obstinate? Be less obstinate!" He said, "One cannot survive in this world without being obstinate." I told him, "Even a snake has to straighten up in order to enter its hole, so become straight if you want to enter moksha. If not, people will straighten you out and only then will you be able to go to moksha. People will beat you and straighten you up. So what is wrong in becoming straight yourself?" Do people not beat us and make us shape up (straighten up)?
Questioner: They do but even then people do not straighten up, do they?
Dadashri: But there is no choice except to straighten up sooner or later, is there? Obstinacy will leave on its own once you have a bitter experience. There exists endless obstinacy. One has never met anyone to straighten him out in any of his previous lives. He would not wander in this manner had he met someone. So everything happens, but he does not remain straight. What does the world do? It keeps beating him to the point where he straightens up. If he does not straighten up, then his wife, his children and the world will beat him into becoming straight