Guest guest Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 In the Bhagvad Gita, Chapter 2 verses 62 and 63 the Lord says: " When a man thinks of the objects, attachment to the object arises: from attachments desire is born; from desire anger rises; from anger comes delusion; from delusion the loss of memory; from loss of memory the destruction of discrimination; from destruction of discrimination a man perishes''. In my opinion anger cannot be analyzed better than what the Lord had done in the above verse of the Gita. Let me explain. Loss of ReasoningWhen we lose our temper, we lose our reasoning too and when we lose our reasoning, we become animals. We all have learnt from our sad experience that when our temper flies, we never do a thing that we will be proud of and often we end up apologizing. However, apology does not help curb our anger. In fact by saying that you are sorry all you have done is you have justified your deeds done in anger. In other words you have found an excuse to be angry again. Anatomy of AngerThe Gita tells us to first recognize how anger works. Anger is always associated with the frustration of not being able to fulfill your desire like greed, sexual desire, financial desire, hunger for power and prestige. When you cannot get what you want, your mind gets disturbed and anger ensues, which takes your mind away. Consequently your sanity is affected. The beginning of anger could be the most trivial but in no time it reaches to its greatest height totally destroying your discriminating power. You do not care whom you are hurting or harming. If you are unable to harm those you wish to harm then you start harming or hurting yourself. That is what the Lord meant by saying that the end result of anger is own annihilation. Anger is totally unbiased towards age, race, colour, creed and religion – no person is exempt from it. It rouses even those who are by nature gentle and quit to commit savage and violent acts. Control of AngerNow that you have understood how powerful and ruinous anger is, I am giving you three clues for avoiding anger and its ugly consequences: 1 Remember anger is not always bad as long as you have not lost your discriminating power. How do you recognize that? By not becoming stubborn about fulfilling your desires. 2 Every evening set aside 10 minutes before going to sleep and lay before minds all the consequences connected with anger and judge their real values. Remember you cannot afford to become angry without losing something. Anger brings grief to a father, divorce to a husband or wife; failure to an employee, loss to a businessman and the list goes on. 3 Read the 62nd and 63rd verses of Chapter 2 of the Gita everyday in the morning and pray to the Lord to really understand the true meaning of what He wished to convey to us through these verse. Your prayer will definitely be answered one day. When that happens; you may still get angry occasionally but you will not be stubborn. May the Lord be your shining guide. By Gyan Rajhans"Gurur Brahma Gurur VishnuGurur Devoh Maheshwar;Gurur Shakshat ParambramhaTashmai Shri Gurur Veh Namah"May the Merciful Sri Sai Baba always shower His grace on us and our families and remove our problems and anxieties by giving us all - strength , goodluck, success and happiness with peace of mind.Sai bhakt,Deepa Hdebu7366 Make your home page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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