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Detachment, Peace and the Solution to Overcoming the Force of Anger · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we step back and look at our internal reactions for a moment,
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  we can see that generally. If we are directly involved and
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  active in a situation or it is something closely associated
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  with us, we respond with much more concern than if we consider
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  ourselves simply to be third-party Observers.
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  If the situation is not meeting our expectations or desires this
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  can lead to an uprush of anger, On the other hand, we find that
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  we can observe a news report or a movie or television program
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  with a sense of Detachment and we can be at ease even when the
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  events portrayed may be terrible in their reality or their future
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  effects. As long as we are not personally
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  affected. The contrast of these two states
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  of response, show us the power of Detachment in terms of
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  gaining control over the impulse to anger.
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  The question then arises as to how we can Marshal a poison of
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  Detachment. When we are directly affected.
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  This comes about through the separation of the witness
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  Consciousness. The observing purusa from the
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  external active nature prakruti, the more we practice this
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  separation and inner Detachment. The more we are able to avoid
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  anger and maintain peace in the midst of whatever we are
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  experiencing. SRI aurobindo notes, quote.
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  It is really simply the recurrence of an old habit of
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  the nature. Look at it and see how trifling
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  is the occasion of the rising of this anger.
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  And it's Outburst. It becomes more and more
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  causeless and the absurdity of such movements itself.
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  It would not really be difficult to get rid of it.
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  If when it comes, you looked at it, calmly for it is perfectly
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  possible to stand back in one part of the being observing, in
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  a detached Equanimity, even while the anger Rises on the
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  surface, as if it were, someone else in your being who had the
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  anger, The difficulty is that you get alarmed and upset and
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  that makes it easier for the thing to get hold of your mind,
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  which it should not do. It is indeed when the quietude
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  comes down from above or comes out from the psychic that the
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  vital becomes full of Peace were of kindness and good.
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  Will it is therefore, that the inner psychic quietude first.
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  And after the peace from above must occupy, the whole being
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  Otherwise, such things as anger in the vital can be controlled,
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  but it is difficult to get rid of them all together without
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  this occupation. By the inner quietude and higher
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  piece. That is the right thing that
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  must happen. Always when anger or anything
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  else Rises the psychic reply must become habitual pointing
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  out that anger is neither right nor helpful and then the being
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  must draw back from these out. Outward things and take it stand
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  and its inner self detach from all these things and people.
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  It is this Detachment that is the first thing that must be
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  gained by the Sadiq. He must cease to live in these
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  outward things and live in his inner being the more that is
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  done. The more there is a release and
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  peacefulness afterwards. When one is secure in this inner
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  being the right thing to do the right way to deal with men, and
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  things will begin to come and quote reference SRI aurobindo in
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  the They're living within the yoga approach to psychological
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  health and growth. Disturbances of the vital anger
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  Pages 58 to 60.