The meaning is not so difficult as the
problem of identifying it right within us, especially at its subtle
levels....
A sophisticated name given is
'Karma'... (Example, somebody cannot arise before 6 am... it is a
karma of that person.... some day, that person wakes a bit earlier,
and yet remains cheerful, amenable .... not irritable due to waking
10 minutes earlier.... has really broken a karma... or has broken
that 'adamancy' within...)...
The bulk of the people were adamant
that earth is flat.... Also about Sun going around earth... About
God 'existing' (even the proposal to ask, whether God “Exists” is
perhaps irrelavent... Exist is relevant only for
perishables/vanishables... ).... The athiests are lesser adamant
perhaps, when we look at the 'blind-belief' of security-seeking
devotees who foreclose the possibility to experience something and
'knowing' it instead of just 'believing' it! Not all athiests...
only those who insist that “let me see, and then agree,... I am
open ..... ever open.... infinitely open... to keep looking if it
is true..... when so many since so long... have been saying He is
....”....
....
The teacher was adamant.... kids MUST
do some good deed, as a part of class-project.... she had to fill up
the report to be submitted to the 'princi'.... The kids 'got-it'
right about the teacher.... they reported... “Miss, we did it...
Both the three of us together helped the old lady to cross the
road!!!”.... “Good,” said the 'Miss'... she 'missed' to see
it instantly, but having noted the 'report', she asked again the
three kids... “But... why did it take all-the-3 of you to help
that old lady cross the street?”... That was too easy for those
innocent kids to explain, “Miss (again, a miss!)... that is
because she never wanted to go to the other side, but.... we HAD to
do some good deed!”... (Like... the transfer of
'insurable-interest' into others, ..... transfer of teacher's
adamancy into kids...!!!)... Kids “just” pick up the traits from
adults around... The mother doesn't know how to cook that lady's
finger without making it sticky/messy/drooling..... so conveniently
says “My kids don't like lady's finger.... what to do!... I am
unable to do anything about it...”... The kids 'assume'... “if
our mom says so.... it must be true... I don't like it...”....
and till somebody does it superbly at some star-hotel, and they are
forced to eat it, and then discover “Oh! Have I been missing
THIS... all along?”... and now it is the mom's turn to miss the
affection,.... to the extent..... of a small fraction of a
percentage... (I am omitting father-examples.... too many would
get badly hurt!)...
....
Spirituality insists adamantly that
seekers should drop their adamency about perception ONLY through
sensory levels..... Take a look at those 'intense' practices,
processes prescribed... and good teachers consciously 'plug' any
incidental benefits, especially those super-powers, to ensure that it
is not going to shift the problem from one leg to another....
(leg/problem?.... yessss! There was a mad-saint... the 'madman of
Narayanath'... he slept under a 'possesed' tree... the giant of
that tree tried in vain to scare our saint... frustrated, now the
giant insisted on giving/granting some boon... the saint brushed it
aside, the proposal... the giant saw that there is no point in being
'adamant' with this saint, so pleaded/implored/begged.... 'please
sir... if I do not do 'something' about/to/for/concerning you, it
affects my image and my 'presence' at this huge tree...'...
“Okay...” said our generous saint.. “If you insist.. then
please shift the ailment of my right leg to my left leg...” (he was
afflicted by that elephant-leg-disease.... one leg was very thick,
heavy and had to be dragged... not walked with...!!!)... that was
the shifting of problem from one leg to another... Those
Asthmatics who also happen to be a little open-minded may happen to
agree, when the wheezing is better, there is some other ailment in
the 'offing'... (traditionally, it is believed that this astma is
nothing but stubbornness manifested/translated into a dis-ease... and
that strictly speaking, it is not an ailment at all!.... just
psycho...)... Then what about those 'stress', 'tensions'... etc..
the very name hints at some kind of adamancy/stubbornness.... the
result may add a few pressure-benefits like bp etc!...
...
Not a new concept at all.... Just that
very few 'Masters' really tampered with the nomenclature... for
obvious reasons.... Perhaps, an ancient exception is, that “maiyaa
mori..... mai NAHI... maakhan khayo...”... when the adamant mom
yielded under emotional stress of being reminded that she was after
all a step-mother, and therefore adamant.... she melted... and now
the song is... “Mayaa mori... mai NE HI maakhan khayo...”
mom has conceded.... what is the point in hanging on to falsehood?
....
If only we are not adamant about not
peeping into our selves, to look, and see, if we have some subtle
adamancy dorment within us.... while there is still some time
left.... ! (Anyways, if we 'remain' ...... to be too old... this
adamancy is going to catch up with us, leaving behind our cohesive
thinking, ..... the hither-to-cleverness of clandestinely
suppressing our adamant tendencies cleverly... and would reveal it
all to all around... till we get disposed to some nearby
old-age-home!)...
...
(and now,... a teaser perhaps... )
Those who are adamant about their 'flexibility'... needlessly if
needed, at any time... can try out to distinguish the subtle
difference between 'Hatred and Resistance' on one hand, and “Jealousy
and intolerance” on the other... it is now upto them to try and
fit-in this adamancy into these two pairs, or else, treat it as a
'brain-child' of these two pairs of couples!
....
I do not insist about any response of
any 'kind'.... it can be unkind too! Not necessarily in-kind!
...
adamantly yours,
psn(25th November, 2012)
