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countries. There, even if a man were to give diamonds with an
upset and non-communicative (risavu) face, the woman will
think, ‘Let him sulk (risavu) if he wants to. At least I get the
diamonds.’ What do you think?
Questioner: That is true.
Dadashri: So then, is the value of being upset and non-
communicative (risavu) at home not worth more than the value
of the diamonds?
Even a child will not let you touch his money. He will say,
‘These are my rupees, give them back to me.’ A person may be
straight in one matter but obstinate in another, he will not
become free until that obstinacy is gone. It is possible to attain
the state of God if obstinacy leaves. ‘Dada’ has become
completely free from all obstinacy.
Everyone’s obstinacy is different in method and approach.
What you state and consider as obstinate, is obstinacy you
cannot see in yourself. If you can see your obstinacy, then you
become God. One becomes God when he sees his own
obstinacy. Even now, where can you see your own obstinacy?
Otherwise, you would have become God.
Obstinacy is the only obstacle
Therefore, one needs to become straight. Do I have any
problems, now that I have become straight? I have become
straight as a result of taking so many beatings over countless
past lives. Now there is no obstinacy at all left in me. If you tell
‘us’ “Let us go down stairs”, then ‘we’ will come with you.
‘We’ do not have any obstinacy (aadayee) whatsoever.
Someone may say, ‘You are like this’ or ‘you are like that.’ He
is saying it to the ‘one’ who is that way. I would not tell that man
he is wrong. What is more, I will even understand to whom he
is addressing. He is not saying it to ‘me’ he is saying it to my
‘neighbor’.