Dear Friends, Sometimes it happens that when someone is giving us some good advice we don't listen to it. We insist on doing exactly what we want to do and we carry on with whatever we want to do. We show stubbornness in all matters and we start sulking, all that comes under `aadar (obstinacy). If we start doing `aadar, then people do not like to be with us, they get fed up. Everyone likes to be around those who are straightforward. In this issue, Param Pujya Dadashri has explained beautifully what `aadar is, its repercussions, how to come out of it, and what is `saradta'(straightforwardness) etc. So come, let us understand the nature of obstinacy and straightforwardness and try to progress towards straightforwardness.