Aptavani-9
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Tragu became a heavy liability for a lady
There was a woman at my friend’s home. She was either
his relative or his elder sister. One day she used heavy deception
(kapat) in order to bully my friend. When someone was visiting
him, she became hysterical and started hitting herself. This
scared my friend and the other man. My friend told me what had
happened when he met me. I told him, ‘I will come to your
house next time this happens.’ Then one day I went there and
she performed the same ‘show’ (taipho; open exposition of
tragu)! She did a tragu! She would jump and my friend would
get scared. So I asked that lady, ‘Do you enjoy all this? You
jump very well. Why don’t you jump some more? We enjoy it
very much.’ I said something like this and she started cursing at
me, ‘Why did you come to our house?’
Therefore, ‘we’ know such deceitful acts and ‘we’ have
the keys to deal with them. Very few people do tragu; about
two percent of men do tragu and in women it is about ten
percent. Tragu is more prevalent in women.
Did you get the meaning of tragu? Only people in the old
days knew how to do them. I feel the children of today do not
know how to do them. How would they know? Their overall
makeup is not strong enough; they are weaklings. Those who do
tragas have a very aggressive constitution. Young people today
get nervous at the slightest scare.
Ingrained in the prakruti
Questioner: Does the one doing a tragu realize that he
is doing it?
Dadashri: Definitely! Tragu itself means to do according
to one’s wishes. It has become an ingrained part of one’s
prakruti and therefore the owner is not able to discern whether
his action is beneficial to him or not. But she knows and
understands everything. Why would she not? When one can
understand even the smallest of things, tragu is a major thing.