Experience
Niruma: Were you ever stubborn?
Aptputra: Niruma, I have been stubborn
many times. In today’s ‘samayik’ I saw that
when I was kid, before Dada’s Gnan, I used
to bully my elder brother. After a few
manipulative tantrums, I used to get things
done my way. Everyone would get fed up of
me and would give in. My mom, my dad and
my brother were always helpless against my
powerful tantrums. My brother would let
go, so mom and dad would think likewise
and let me have my way. This way I used to
get everything done my way.
Niruma: Once, in the year 1990, you, your
brother, and sister-in-law had come to me.
Usually your brother does not complain, but
that day he told me, “Niruma, my brother
never admits to his mistakes. He always
points to my mistakes.” When I asked you
whether this was true, you said to me,
“Niruma, if he is at fault, I will surely show
him his mistake. I never make a mistake so
why should I admit it? He is the one who
makes mistakes, whereas I am very sincere
and hard-working. My elder brother is lazy!”
That day, after discussing this topic
with you for nearly half an hour, you still did
not accept your mistakes and insisted that
you never made mistakes.
Then I told you, “There was one
Mahavir Bhagwan who was faultless and
now you are the second! “Jai Mahavir
Bhagwan ki!” (I salute Lord Mahavir)”
Saying this I bowed down to you. Then for
the first time you realized that the fact that
you were not Mahavir Bhagwan was 100%
true, and therefore, the fact that you did
make mistakes, was also 100% true. Then
you started thinking of how wrong your
tantrums were.
Not accepting one’s mistakes is
obstinacy. You go on pointing out other
person’s faults and even after you notice
your own mistake, you do not accept the
fact. That amounts to being obstinate. It
is your stubbornness.
When you get rid of your blunders
and mistakes, you will not have any
superior.
When you
will get rid of
your
blunders and
mistakes,
you will not
have any
superior.
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