Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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anything further. You should continue listening to him but you should not try to make him understand what you are saying: he simply does not understand your viewpoint.
Only a Gnani can straighten him out
Questioner: What should we do when someone is being obstinate?
Dadashri: People simply don't have the courage to deal with such tasks! That kind of equanimity is 'our' (the Gnani's) task. That person would never behave obstinately around me again. The day he tries to be obstinate, he will not see any reward from me. He will try to test me and then he will never be obstinate around me. Obstinacy has become strong because it has received encouragement. Generally, people are feeble and when someone is being obstinate with them, what do they do? They will give in and say, Just let him go.' People are soft and therefore they encourage obstinacy. When the obstinate one comes near 'us, he will find out.
Questioner: Is it true that we bring this stock of obstinacy from our past life?
Dadashri: It is all from the past life. Nothing of it is from this life.
Questioner: In that case, will it become strong if it gets encouragement in this life?
Dadashri: Yes, it does become stronger but nobody can have their way with a person who is unattached (nispruha). The Gnani is pleased with the one who
becomes sarad Nothing that anyone does can affect the detachment (nispruhata) of the Gnani. The one who does not keep any distinction between 'mine' and 'someone else's, can accomplish whatever he wants. If you make such a person happy (rajipo
- if you make the Gnani happy) then the entire universe (one's total being) will become happy. But it is not easy to make him happy because the Gnani Purush is extremely straight (sarad) and that is why it is difficult to do so. An hour's worth of the Gnani's rajipo will accomplish your goal of salvation. I tell everyone and I give them a guarantee that I can bestow the same state as mine upon the one who wants it, within an hour. But it is difficult to attain straightness (saradata), is it not?
The Gnani Purush is extremely sarad (straight) and that is why it is difficult to attain his rajipo and please him. If the Gnani Purush were not straight (asarad) then he would be easily pleased. However, this Gnani Purush is extremely sarad and thus He is difficult to please. Now how can you please the one who is sarad (straight)? You can please him when you become sarad (straight) yourself. Yes, He will be pleased if he comes down from that level (a sarad level), how can He be pleased otherwise? You can own the whole universe with an hour of the Gnani's rajipo! That is how much rajipo He has. What can the One, who wants nothing in this world, not give? But it is not easy to attain such a rajipo. You have to become straight (sarad) in order to attain it. The Gnani Purush is more sarad than even a year old child. Now how can you attain His rajipo and please Him, when you are not straight? How can you attain that from a straight (sarad) person when you are not straight (sarad) in front of him? You need that level here. Do you understand all this?
A Dramatic ego! Questioner: It is said in the Aptasutra, "There is no problem with the ego that is flowing but to seize the ego even a little, is obstinacy.' So what is flowing ego?
Dadashri: The ego that you see in women is a flowing ego. It is ego when she says, 'Right now I am making soup and I will cook the vegetables in no time, but it is a flowing ego.