Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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way on her own accord, it was the other women who led her to believe that if she behaved this way, the girls would go away and never return.
The presence of a Gnani is very rare in this world. Would the poor girls not come to do darshan? They come here because they do not find peace elsewhere. At least let them do darshan peacefully. Those women even told Hiraba that Dada would marry one of the girls! They also coached Hiraba that these young girls would take Dada away from her. Arey! How can that happen? I am an old man, what kind of nonsense were they teaching Hiraba? What fault is it of poor Hiraba? She too realized she was wrong. Although the girls used to come to satsang, she was one hundred percent convinced that I was morally upright and sincere, but she told me to stop because it looked bad to others. Is it possible to leave this role of the Gnani even if I wanted to? This is all vyavasthit and she said it out of lack of understanding. Is it even possible to do? Besides can this railway'line - this path of Akram Vignan - be just plucked up and removed? Therefore, I had to find a solution. An ordinary 'cork' would not have worked; I had to look for a cork that could be screwed on so tight that it would never come offy (Dada had to resolve the situation once and for all).
Questioner: The acting you did, is that not considered deceit (kapat)?
Dadashri: No. There is no deceit (kapat) in it. There is no deceit in removing heat from under the milk when it is about to boil over. Is there deceit in that?
Questioner: But the aim was to do something good, is it not?
Dadashri: It was to cleanse her. Everyone sitting around were stunned. Besides I would only assail her reputation in the presence of others, otherwise I would not even attempt it: it would not have any affect on her. Otherwise she would swallow
the insult. She will think, 'Oh! No one was present!' She would have just swallowed it and my effort would have gone to waste.
Hiraba had the experience and knew that I was moral and sincere. It was only in this one case that her mind became poisoned and it became a little difficult to remove the impurity. The impurity did not come out by way of gentle words and so I had to resort to this other method. Further more this remedy was such that whenever Hiraba went to do something, she would say, 'Do not do that. We must not interfere in what he is doing. He is very strict. He is just like Mahadevji (referring to the angry form of Lord Shiva). 'This big an impression I left on her. Hiraba says, 'Even now he is like a hot chili pepper!'
It is not easy to be a Gnani. If a sprout like this were to germinate in someone, the Gnani would remove that sprout from its very roots; otherwise it would grow into trees! The women then used to tell Hiraba, 'Do not say anything. You should not say anything.' I reassured Hiraba, 'I am not going to do anything. Who is going to do anything to Dada? What are these girls going to do?' Those women then realized, 'Why should we take on the quarrel unnecessarily. We will be held liable for it.' I told the women directly on their face they were responsible for creating the entire problem. What could be done now that the pot had a crack in it (a crack in the relation)? I told them I will patch the crack just this one time but I would not do it again and that the next time I would just leave Hiraba. I sealed the crack one time.
Questioner: Hiraba's banging on the door and slamming the stove, is that obstinacy (aadayee)?
Dadashri: Then what is it if not obstinacy? But it is actually a tragu. It was a tragu on a smaller level. I did the big heavy one!
Questioner: So does one have to use force like that in order to be rid of the smaller tragu?