Gita's Analysis of Anger

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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

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