In how many places does insistence (mamat) prevail? In how many places or incidents can you be insistent? If someone is taking away this cup from you, do you not have to insist that he leaves it? You would tell the man, “Brother, you are taking away this cup but it is mine, it has my name on it.” He would read the name and realize it and would give it back to you.  It is good if he gives it back to you, but if he refuses to give it back to you even after reading your name, then you should not become insistent. You can say it as you would say in a drama (a play), “Brother, my name is on the cup!” and then if he gives it back to you, it is fine, otherwise let go. Do not be insistent there. Vitraags are not such that they will remain silent if someone is taking something away. Vitraag is the one who speaks dramatically (without inner attachment). If someone is kidnapping one’s daughter, he has to tell him, “She is my daughter. I have to get her married in a good family.” While saying all that if he remains completely detached then he is a Vitraag But do they not say, “This person is being stubborn and insistent” (mamatey chadhya)?  There is no insistency in the Vitraag path as there is in all the other paths. If ‘we’ say dramatically, “It is dark outside” and you say, “No, it is light out side” ‘we’ would again tell you, “Brother, look again. It is still dark outside.” ‘We’ would make a request and if you still do not believe ‘us’, ‘we’ would let go. Indeed if the real world were such that a person can be superior over another, then ‘we’ would have forced you into accepting ‘our’ view point.
How has the Lord defined vyvahaar-dharma; the religion of interaction of worldly life? There is no nischay-dharma (Self-knowledge) outside; it is to be found only here (where the Lord is). What is vyvahaar-dharma? It is public opinion and consent with democracy. Anything against public opinion is insistency (mamat). Here (the current misguided Jain sect behavior) everyone will say, “This is a narrow-minded religion.” If one maharaj says, “Today is the eight day of lunar fortnight (athham),” another maharaj will say, “It is the seventh day (satam).” Both should be thrown out as this is a conflict arising from insistence. If the moon that produces the light of the seventh and the eight-day does not have a problem, why do these people have the insistence?
To believe only one’s own viewpoint as being correct is drashtivadi.
One will not let go of his own opinions of his dharma. Even when five other people tell him otherwise, he will stick to his own viewpoint. He insists on sticking to this viewpoint, and further insists on insisting his viewpoint .This is kadagrahi. Insistence of one’s of opinion over any matters is duragrahi To be stuck on a particular viewpoint e.g. we only believe in idol worship is abhiniveshi. What are they all (the above four) going to do for us when they cannot do a thing for themselves? It is not their fault; they have not found the right circumstances. It is possible for you to get solutions for all these puzzles.
Vitraags have said not to do what others do, but to do only that which is beneficial to you. People do wrong because they do not know any better, but you are a Jain. You are a lawyer, do you con people? What happens when a lawyer does that? Being born as a Jain is equivalent to being a lawyer. What happens when the one who knows the law, breaks it?
It has fallen in ‘our’ lap to clean up! Do you think ‘we’ like using harsh language? Do these words suit ‘us’? Gnani Purush whose speech is ‘pratyaksh Saraswati’; the manifest Goddess of Speech, has been given the job of cleaning up the mess and hence such a speech comes out. In the current era of this time cycle all goods are rotten. Only the Vitraag speech that expresses forth through ‘us,’ will clean up this mess.  ‘We’ will not have to go anywhere personally.  ‘We’ are saying that in the year 2005, people of foreign countries will look to India as the spiritual center of the world and will come here to learn about religion. At that time we will not see any inner corruption in people, and all will enjoy happiness never experienced before; the happiness will be like the happiness of Satyug.  An unparalleled reign of Lord Mahavir will arise as compared to the ones of other Tirthankars!