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walk straight and smooth. You wii have to be flexible, adjustable
and without any element of obstinacy. Only then will you reach
moksha. A snake too has to straighten in order to enter its hole.
The worldly life is perpetuated through obstinacy and
inflexibility. Liberation is unattainable due to this obstinacy and
inflexibility. The Lord has said that before becoming a sadhu
(one who has renounced the world) one will have to become
straight. No matter what level a sadhu has reached, what good
is it if his obstinacy still remains? Obstinacy is a dangerously
perverse ego. This obstinacy is so bad that even if the Real path
comes your way to embrace you; it will not let you embrace it.
Your stubbornness will reject it.
People have nurtured their obstinate ego more than their
loved ones, and their own selves. Alas! Even more than nurturing
themselves, they have nurtured their obstinacy and because of
this obstinacy, they wander life after life. Obstinacy makes one
blind and does not allow one to see the right path. Obstinacy
makes one harbour svachhand, which is nothing but poison.
In the worldly life, obstinate people receive no respect.
Only those without obstinacy are respected. So can obstinacy
be tolerated in the path of liberation when even in the relative
life it is a detestable quality?
Obstinacy will remain until Keval Gnan. Obstinacy is
unpredictable in the path of liberation; it may arise at any time.
You have to cross the ocean of obstinacy. You are standing on
one shore of obstinacy and you have to cross over to the
opposite shore. In this world you will get nowhere if you fight
obstinacy with obstinacy. You can only get rid of obstinacy by
becoming flexible and humble. Even a snake has to become
‘straight’ to enter its hole. For liberation, you will have to become
flexible and humble. You will have to destroy all your tubers and
become abuddha (intellect totally replaced by pragna- the direct