Aptavani 09

Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

Page 94

not. But she knows and understands everything. Why would she not? When one can understand even the smallest of things, tragu is a big thing.
Beware of those doing tragu!
One lady came to me and started doing a tragu. She was a respected family elder of mine. I did not give into her tragu. Then she tells me, 'You are the only one who has not succumbed to me. I told her, 'It is not that I do not yield. I would not yield to a God either in such matters.' This is because whenever she initiated a tragu, I would know it immediately.
Tragu means to scare the hell out of the other. 'We became a Gnani recently but prior to that I had an ego, did I not? At that time I would say, 'Go ahead and bang your head; let me see you do that. Are you trying to scare me? I sit here having scared the whole world.' I am such a man that I can get rid of the tragas of the whole world. I am such a magician! People doing tragu will not let you get ahead in life. To do tragu means to put a lot of pressure on others.
I was visiting a man when another man came to him. Do you know what he started to do in order to scare him? He started to bang his head on the ground and so I asked him, 'Hey Brother!, what is the matter? What is wrong?' So the other man said, 'Look, he does this to scare me.' Soft and mild people get scared easily. If a person refuses to sign certain documents, then the other man will do tragu to scare him into signing them. The man will then say, 'Here, give the papers to me, I will sign them.' Therefore, a man doing tragu will bang his head on the wall in this way.
What is a bad quality in men? That of doing a tragu. Do not keep any relation with a man who does tragu. Women by nature may do tragu, but some men also do tragu too.
Questioner: You said that a bad quality in a man is that of tragu and that we should not interact with such a person?
Dadashri: No, you should not. He will scare you too. You too will get scared.
Questioner: How can one escape from such a man who is doing a tragu?