all the creatures of the world, suffering in agony the afflictions
of the worldly life.
There is a childlike innocence and guilelessness in the
Gnani. In a child however, it is ignorance that breeds innocence
but the Gnani’s innocence springs from the highest degree of
wisdom and knowledge. A vision that sees no fault or flaws
anywhere but finds and feels everything in order. Having
become free of faults Himself, he views the whole world, as it
stands, to be innocent and ‘in order’.
Not a single trace of stubbornness or obstinacy would be
there in the Gnani. Stubbornness is the expression of ego-
sense. Narrow is the path to liberation and the stubborn cannot
enter it. Only the simple and straightforward can get past it
without any difficulty. Obstinacy or stubbornness is the greatest
obstruction in the world. The Gnani remains unaffected or
unruffled even in the face of some one’s untoward gesture,
abasement or humiliation. He would pacify anyone’s tartness
with unsurpassed politeness. No instigation dare irritate him –
his vitragta can be evident upon provocation. What a wondrous
detachment to external factors and forces. He is anything but
the Gnani who, when piqued, is provoked to rage or wrath.
Not even a jot of stubborn insistence is to be found in a
Gnani. He is entirely aloof from ‘insistence’ or ‘stickiness’-
Insistence endangers dissent or conflict, and that comes in the
way of liberation.
God has asserted for one not to be a prey to any clinging
insistence except in seeking the Gnani, at whose lotus feet lies
Liberation. The grace and blessings of the Gnani would place
you right on the threshold of Liberation without any strain or
pain on your part.
The Gnani’s love is the purest love. It is a fountain of
divine love that puts out the fires of the worldly life. The Gnani
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