However, you can only see them when you attain impartial
vision, or if someone points them out to you and you examine
them. Then that would be the scope to remove your obstinacies.
However, if you see other people’s obstinacies, it is regarded as
your own obstinacy. Your obstinacies will vanish the moment
you start to see them.
One becomes God when his obstinacies are completely
gone.
When a true statement that is satisfying to the heart is not
accepted, that verily is the nature of obstinacy. Obstinate people
behave according to their own opinions. Obstinacies end in
those who behave according to the Gnani’s opinion.
The finest qualities of the prakruti (the innate nature of
one’s relative Self) are freely available to everyone on the path
to liberation. These qualities are ultimate humility, extreme
simplicity, spontaneous forgiveness, and total lack of obstinacy.
These qualities can be regarded as measures of spiritual
progress.
To be aware of one’s own obstinacies is verily called
awareness!
Obstinacies may have lessened, however if one has ‘my-
ness’ (mamata), then he is absorbed in the worldly life only.
Whereas, if there is no ‘my-ness’ and if the subtlest obstinacies
have ended, one will become a Gnani.
The root of obstinacy is the ego. If a person has faith in
the opinion of ‘people will only shape up if I sulk, remain
obstinate, upset and non-communicative (risavu)’, then obstinacy
will not refrain from manifesting in his behavior.
If you become obstinate with the Gnani Purush, you will
not get any support or encouragement from Him. There, in front
of the Gnani, one has no choice but straighten out and shape up!
Obstinacies succumb and bow down to the one who is
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