|| Shri Hari ||

Way to Eradicate Anger

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Please give up this idea that "I have anger in me".  Considering yourself to be angry based on past event is pointless.  Anger is against one's spiritual discipline. It is an obstacle to one's spiritual progress.  When anger comes, at that moment man's power of discrimination is destroyed.  As soon as anger comes -

krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛti-vibhramaḥ

smṛti-bhraṁśād buddhi-nāśo buddhi-nāśāt praṇaśyati

(Gita 2/63)

Your memory is destroyed !  Everything is forgotten,  such as - I am God's; I worship Him and am devoted to Him; I associate with holy company / Truth; I am a spiritual aspirant,  – all this is forgotten.  When we forget the main purpose of this birth which is to engage in worship and remembrance of God and realize Him, what a major loss one suffers !  

sammohāt smṛti-vibhramaḥ

That which is written in the Gitaji is very true.  There are two points

(1) There is no anger in us and

(2) Anger destroys man  

Therefore in fact, we must not get angry. 

Desire, anger, greed, attachment, lust, envy, conflict and all the other flaws that appear; they do not stay.  Understand them to be temporary, the kind that come and go.  Inquire on their nature.  They do not have an independent existence.  Understand this third point.  How is there no anger in us?  Then see – -  do you get angry with everyone?  Do you get angry at all times?  Does the anger remain at all times?  Is there nothing else in me besides anger?  See!  these points that are being shared,  I have acquired them from great saints and souls.  You will definitely be benefited by them. That is the truth.  You do it and see for yourself.

It is said that -  

"Ishvar ansh jeev avinashi chetan amal sahaj sukh raashi"  

We are a part of God, we are divinity, immortal, conscious, untainted and blissful by nature. We are indestructible, therefore we have to detach from the flaws.     "Amal," - there are no flaws in us.   Have faith in Goswamiji's words.  

Lord Krishna’s words say -   

"Mamaivaansho jeevaloke",  

(Gita 15:7)

If it is in the father, than it will be in the son!  There is no flaw in God.

“Krodhopi shatru prathamah

naraanaam dehasthito dehvinaashnaai."  

There  is great loss, destruction from anger, for you as well as the other.

"Namostute krodhdevaay swaashraya jwaaline visham,"

O' God of anger, I bow to you. Wherever you go, first you burn off that place.  How ungrateful!  Others you burn later on, first it burns you.  

"Jis haandi mein khaave usi ko phode."  

You break the plate that you eat in.   So vicious!  That wood in which there is fire, that itself you burn.  Therefore Brother, you must leave this anger!   First it burns us and then the other, like fire.  Anger even burn blood, it destroys it.

See, there is a very good point.  When anger comes understand that it is not in you, then where did it come from?  Then there was some tendencies from the past therefore it has come, but now it is gone.  It has not come, just some impressions of the past were there on the mind-intellect, but it is gone now.  Do not consider it to have come, know it as it is on its way out.  Just like a dirty pipe when cleaned smells awful. As such it is not the bad smell that is coming, with cleaning the odor is going away.    Gentlemen you will observe that you get angry less frequently,  doe not remain for long period, if far less forceful than before.   This is the experience that all should experience.  From this it is proven that anger is not coming, rather it is on its way out.   In the present everyone is flawless.

Narayan !  Narayan !!  Narayan !!!  

From lecture in hindi on "Krodh Naash kaa upaaya" on Feb 04, 1996 at 3 p.m. by Swami Ramsukhdasji