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cease. The Lord has said samkit will not occur because of
divisions. The ascetics have conquered their propensity towards
sensual-pleasures (vishay), however these pleasures are not the
culprit and are independent. For endless lives, the attachment
and insistence (matagraha) they have carried towards their
own viewpoint, which is the reason for their wanderings life after
life, and this is still very much alive even today. They have
become opinionated; they live in their opinions. They are
conquering that which does not need to be conquered and they
do not conquer that which does. They have all conquered their
propensity for worldly pleasures but they have not conquered
their attachment to their viewpoints. They have become rigid in
their viewpoint to the point of obstinacy. Obstinacy to a
viewpoint supports paap karma in the worldly life. Obstinacy to
a viewpoint is always present where the Gnani Purush and his
mahatmas are not to be found and where there is obstinacy to
viewpoints, the Self can never be found, even if you look for it.
The Self itself has been covered up by obstinacy. Obstinacy to
any viewpoint will not allow one to be free. The Lord has not
regarded sense-pleasures as attachment (moha) but he does
consider unrelenting adherence to viewpoint as attachment.
Harmony in the path of the vitarag
There are no oppositions on the path of the vitarags.
Questioner : Why do some people object to celebrating
Mahavir Jayanti?
Dadashri : Gnanis would not object to anything; they
would not stop a moving train. Do you think all these people are
Gnanis? They are blinded by their opinions. They are obstinate
and hang on to their opinions to feed their egos. This is nothing
but false obstinacy to viewpoints. That is why they make a
mountain out of a molehill. Let me give you a definition and a
description of the kind of Acharyas that had walked on the
vitarag path. These Acharyas were ready to listen to anyone and