Aptavani-9, Dada Bhagwan [classic book list TXT] 📗

Questioner: Is that not called obstinacy?

Dadashri: No, obstinacy (aadayee) is to maintain, ‘We will go on a fast.’ This is where the whole world is stuck.

Questioner: Is it not aadayee when a person does not follow your directions?

Dadashri: That is indeed an aadayee, what else? Is Dadaji likely to tell you to do anything otherwise? He would only say something if it is for your own benefit. Therefore, you should not be obstinate where Dadaji is concerned.

Becoming straight through understanding

Have you ever seen aadayee (obstinacy) in someone? Have you seen that it exists in people?

Questioner: Dada, I had it within me. I was very obstinate.

Dadashri: Is that so? You are the knower of the one who was obstinate. Is the knower not separate? Or is the knower the one who is obstinate? No. The one who is obstinate is not the knower. The knower is separate; the knower is the Self. So did all your obstinacy go away?

Questioner: It is still there, Dada.

Dadashri: Then you still have to become straight. Aadayee (obstinacy) is not acceptable. If you do not become straight with this Gnan of ours, then people will beat you into becoming straight. So, it is better if you straighten up through understanding. That will save you all the hassle. One always gets hurt when he interferes (dakho-dakhal; becomes Chandulal). Hence, interference straightens him constantly. When the horns of obstinacy are broken right here, then all work is done. All aadayee (obstinacy) is bestial. When a couple of wise men plead with the one with obstinacy, ‘Please listen to us,’ do you know what he will say? He will say, ‘No I find it hard to believe.’ He exposes his obstinacy in front of us thus. Moksha will be attained only when that obstinacy goes away.

Necessities for progress along the path of moksha

If someone were to tell us, ‘Dada, bow down to all these people’, then I would do so and I

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Publication Date: 07-05-2017

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