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Tragu, is an art too
Tragu is an art; it is one of the seventy-two arts.
Questioner: Is stealing also not an art kada?
Dadashri: Yes, that is also an art but all these arts that one had gathered (past life) is what creates problems in this life.
Questioner: Where does one learn the art of doing a tragu?
Dadashri: The soul has all kinds of energies. When one decides, 'I want to get what I want by scaring the hell oout of them,', then he will know how to do tragu. Then he learns the method of doing the tragu.
One needs a lot of cleverness akkal to do a tragu. Most people are not smart enough to understand the 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: Does the one who does a tragu get exposed invariably?
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 noisily 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 a hundred others.
