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"We did tragu once. Arey! I threw things on the floor; I threw utensils, containers of sugar, tea, cooking fuel etc. I made a big mess. There was a big mess on the floor.
Questioner: Was it to have your own way?
Dadashri: Yes, that was the only tragu done in the whole life. It is called a tragu. It was done for asserting control. And it was done for others, it was done for the sake of dharma, it was not done for myself. This was done because 'we' had to convey to Hiraba, 'You should not act this way.'
This is what happened. After 'we' attained Gnan, young girls used to come to 'us' for vidhis (special spiritual grace blessing from the Gnani Purush by touching His feet) when we lived in Mamani Poda in Vadodara. Hiraba was innocent; she is a good person. But women in the home across ours instigated her, 'Oh my goodness! These young girls come to Dada and touch his feet. It looks bad. It is not appropriate, is it? Dada is a good man, but this looks bad. What about Dada's reputation?' People make all kinds of accusations and they brainwashed Hiraba this way. She worried that our reputation would be ruined. She is a good woman but people put ‘salt' in her (they instilled suspicion her mind). What happens to milk when you put salt in it?
Questioner: It will go bad.
Dadashri: I knew that people had started to add 'salt' in her and that one day she would go bad, but I waited. One day when a young lady was doing vidhi, Hiraba deliberately hit the door as she was sweeping the floor. She had never done that before. There was no such practice in our home. She did it to scare the girl away; she did not do it to scare me. The girls became anxious that Hiraba would scold them. So this girl got scared. I immediately understood that there was some kind of mischief behind this act; can one not recoginze the mischief behind it? Do you think that I was as naive back then as I am now? So then, I told Hiraba, 'From today onwards you and I have to separate. We cannot afford this. You go and live in Bhadran and I will arrange to send you seven hundred or so rupees every month for your expenses. We should no longer be staying together from now on.' Chandrakantbhai, Bhanabhai, and five to six other people were sitting there at the time. Even they got the opportunity to learn from this scene! Hiraba then started to make tea and while doing so, she kept banging the