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then he will know how to do a tragu. He will then know how
to get his way through tragu.
One needs a lot of cleverness (akkal) to do a tragu.
Most people are not smart enough to understand or recognize
a tragu. If someone is doing a tragu, ‘we’ would know it right
away. It is no fun to deal with one who comes and does a tragu
here.
Questioner: Can you recognize when one does tragu?
Dadashri: ‘We’ recognize it the moment one resorts to
a tragu ‘here comes tragu! He has started doing a tragu!’
Vigilance with understanding
A ten-year-old son of one of our acquaintance would
start crying and wailing as soon as his mother became free from
her household chores. I had to sleep in the room next to his. He
would do this every day, so one day, when he was alone, I went
in his room and pinched him a few times and he started to
scream. His mother became exasperated, ‘This cry-baby
harasses me everyday.’ I said, ‘No he is not harassing you. Just
listen to the wonderful sound he is producing. This is music. Just
listen. Call everyone to listen.’ This went on for two or three
more days and then it stopped.
We have to come up with some remedy, do we not? How
long can this go on? People use tragu to scare others. Just one
person with a tragu can scare and ruin hundred others.
They can do such a tragu that will take the wind out of
you and drain you emotionally. Being a Gnani, Gnan helps ‘us’
realize that a person is doing tragu. Even when I did not have
Gnan, I could as