8 Aptavani-9
Questioner: Who is your neighbor?
Dadashri: This‘ A. M. Patel’ is the first neighbor. He( A. M. Patel) is also a contractor and an income-tax payer. That man is addressing this neighbor of mine.
They say that Gnan cannot manifest in the one who lives a worldly life. Hey, the income tax payer is there, and the contract business where bribery is commonplace is also there, and yet the Gnan has expressed! So then what creates obstacles in this worldly life? Your obstinacy( aadayee) is the obstacle. I had seen a lot of obstinacy in me. I became a Gnani after all the obstinacy went away. When no obstinacy remains within you, then realize that you have become a Gnani.
Nature of obstinacy
Questioner: How should I understand the nature of obstinacy( aadayee)?
Dadashri: It is when one does not accept that which his heart accepts, and acts according to his own opinion and understanding.‘ We’ do not say anything to anyone or pressure anyone, and if‘ we’ ever do and even then he does not accept it, then is that not his aadayee( obstinacy)? Is that not acting according to his own opinion and will? Should he not be following the Agna( directive) of the Gnani?
Questioner: Really speaking, we have to follow the Agnas of the Gnani.
Dadashri: Aadayee( obstinacy) is prevalent. Wherever it is, the worldly problems have arisen because of aadayee. Only‘ we’ are devoid of such obstinacy.‘ We’ have come to zero obstinacy. If someone pressures us by saying,‘ You will have to do things this way otherwise we will go on a fast,’ then in order to prevent them from undergoing the pain and the trouble of fasting,‘ we’ would tell him,“‘ We’ will do it but do not go on a fast.”