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the insult. She will think, ‘Oh! No one was present!’ She would
have just swallowed it and my effort would have gone to waste.
Hiraba had the experience and knew that I was moral and
sincere. It was only in this one case that her mind became
poisoned and it became a little difficult to remove the impurity.
The impurity did not come out by way of gentle words and so
I had to resort to this other method. Further more this remedy
was such that whenever Hiraba went to do something, she
would say, ‘Do not do that. We must not interfere in what he is
doing. He is very strict. He is just like Mahadevji (referring to
the angry form of Lord Shiva).’ This big an impression I left on
her. Hiraba says, ‘Even now he is like a hot chili pepper!’
It is not easy to be a Gnani. If a sprout like this were to
germinate in someone, the Gnani would remove that sprout from
its very roots; otherwise it would grow into trees! The women
then used to tell Hiraba, ‘Do not say anything. You should not
say anything.’ I reassured Hiraba, ‘I am not going to do
anything. Who is going to do anything to Dada? What are these
girls going to do?’ Those women then realized, ‘Why should we
take on the quarrel unnecessarily. We will be held liable for it.’
I told the women directly on their face they were responsible for
creating the entire problem. What could be done now that the
pot had a crack in it (a crack in the relation)? I told them I will
patch the crack just this one time but I would not do it again and
that the next time I would just leave Hiraba. I sealed the crack
one time.
Questioner: Hiraba’s banging on the door and slamming
the stove, is that obstinacy (aadayee)?
Dadashri: Then what is it if not obstinacy? But it is
actually a tragu. It was a tragu on a smaller level. I did the big,
heavy one!
Questioner: So does one have to use force like that in
order to be rid of the smaller tragu?