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believe.’ He exposes his obstinacy in front of us thus. Moksha
will be attained only when that obstinacy goes away.
Necessities for progress along the path of
moksha
If someone were to tell us, ‘Dada, bow down to all these
people’, then I would do so and I would do it five times over.
‘We’ would bow down to even a vagrant. ‘We’ have ways to
bow down in any manner that is necessary. ‘We’ have a way to
bow down to the Soul and a way to bow down to the vagrant.
If he says, ‘Do not bow down to the Soul, bow only to the
vagrant,’ ‘we’ would do that too. So you must have humility.
Complete humility! The one who completely ‘dissolves in water’
(becomes completely egoless) will be blessed with the ultimate.
If a lump (ego) remains in water, it means it has not completely
dissolved and so it will just keep going round and round.
Obstinate people will simply keep wandering round and round,
life after life.
As a lot of worldly respect is gained, a spiritually elevated
person will become more humble; his ego will not be evident, he
will not be inflexible. Egoistic inflexibility (akadai) is a
characteristic of an inferior human being. When a person attains
this spiritual knowledge but still exhibits inflexibility, then he is an
inferior human being. How can one have this Gnan and continue
to remain rigid and inflexible?
The one who readily accepts the truth is called a straight
(sarad) person.
Questioner: If we accept what others tell us as the truth
and follow through, then we become vulnerable to hurt, will we
not?
Dadashri: It is better to stumble and learn. If a saint says,
‘I have full faith in human beings’ someone may ask him, ‘What
if someone deceives you some day?’ He will reply, ‘One man
may swindle me, and another may do the same, but some day