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However, you can only see them when you attain impartial vision, or if someone points them out to you and you examine them. Then that would be the scope to remove your obstinacies. However, if you see other people's obstinacies, it is regarded as your own obstinacy. Your obstinacies will vanish the moment you start to see them.
One becomes God when his obstinacies are completely gone.
When a true statement that is satisfying to the heart is not accepted, that verily is the nature of obstinacy. Obstinate people behave according to their own opinions. Obstinacies end in those who behave according to the Gnani's opinion.
The finest qualities of the prakruti (the innate nature of one's relative Self) are freely available to everyone on the path to liberation. These qualities are ultimate humility, extreme simplicity, spontaneous forgiveness, and total lack of obstinacy. These qualities can be regarded as measures of spiritual progress.
To be aware of one's own obstinacies is verily called awareness!
Obstinacies may have lessened, however if one has 'myness' (mamata), then 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 the ego. If a person has faith in the opinion of people will only shape up if I sulk, remain obstinate, upset and non-communicative (risavu), then obstinacy will not refrain from manifesting in his behavior.
If you become obstinate with the Gnani Purush, you will not get any support or encouragement from Him. There, in front of the Gnani, one has no choice but straighten out and shape up! Obstinacies succumb and bow down to the one who is
nispruha (without any inclination towards needs, or desire, of any material things of this world). The one who has the virtue of being straight will naturally receive the grace of the Gnani Purush who himself is completely straightforward in everything.
One is considered to have become straightforward when he knows his own obstinacies. The obstinacies can be identified only if one has the Knowledge of his real Self. And only then can they be reduced and ultimately eradicated. On the other hand, the one who is obstinate will completely miss the whole path of liberation
Obstinacy arises in making others do according to your will. By doing according to the will of others, obstinacies come to an end.
"To have the knowledge the one who is obstinate is not l' is called Akram Vignan, which is a step-less (short-cut) path to Self-realization and the one who is obstinate is I and I have to straighten out', is called Kramic path, which is a step by step path (you progress one step at a time)."
- Dadashri To be upset and non-communicative (risavu) is also a type of obstinacy. Who is at a loss from becoming upset and non-communicative? Will the train wait for the one who remains upset and non-communicative? The train will leave right in front of him. The world will not stop for him at all.
If someone is being upset and non-communicative (risavu) with you, he is being so with the one that is a risad in you; i.e. the one that gets upset and non-communicative within you. The risad within you is seeing the one who is upset and noncommunicative. The risad within you is not the real Self. The one who is upset and non-communicative (risavu) with you is not the real Self either. The Self sees the Self, the Self sees the pure (shuddha) only. Inherent in this is the path of liberation
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