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SIVANANDA - CONQUEST OF ANGER: Inner Enemy of Success, Wealth & Inner Power - Sri Swami Sivananda · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Conquest of anger by Sri Swami Sivanandal on anger and
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  its control, Arjuna said, impelled by what does man commit
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  sin much against his wishes? Compelled as it were, by force,
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  the Blessed Lord said, it is desire. It is anger,
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  born of the quality of passion or restlessness. All devouring,
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  all sinful, know this as the foe here in this world.
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  The cause of sin or wrong action in this world
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  is desire. Anger is only a modification or form of desire.
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  Anger is desire itself. When a desire is not gratified,
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  the man becomes angry against those who stand as obstacles
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  in the path of fulfillment. The desire is born of
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  the quality of restlessness or passion. When desire arises, it
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  generates restlessness and urges the man to work in order
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  to possess the object. Therefore, know that this desire is
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  man's foe on this earth. Triple is the gait of
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  this hell, destructive of the self, Lust, anger, and greed.
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  Therefore one should abandon these three lust, anger, and greed.
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  These highway robbers will cause a man to fall into
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  the dark abyss of hell, Misery and grief. These are
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  the three fountain heads of misery. These three constitute the
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  gateway leading down to the lowest of hells. These are
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  the enemies of peace, devotion, and knowledge. From anger comes
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  delusion from delusion, the loss of memory. From loss of memory,
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  the destruction of discrimination. From destruction of discrimination, he perishes.
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  He who is able to resist the force of desire
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  and anger, even before he quits his body, he is
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  a yogan. He is a blessed man. Those who are
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  free from desire and anger, and who have subdued their
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  minds and realized themselves. Around such austere men lies the
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  beatitude of God. Anger and its forms. Anger is a
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  negative thought wave or whirlpool in the mind lake. It
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  is born of ignorance. It is a strong emotion excited
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  by a real or fancied injury, in involving a desire
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  for retaliation. Anger is the natural passion or emotion of
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  displeasure and antagonism, aroused by injury or insult, real or imagined,
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  and directed against the cause thereof. Anger arises from an
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  idea of evil having been inflicted or threatened. Anger is
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  often accompanied by a desire to take vengeance or to
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  obtain satisfaction from the offending party. It begins in folly
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  and ends in repentance. There fire, you kindle for your
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  enemy burns yourself. When anger arises, think of the consequences.
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  It will soon subside. You think of objects of senses.
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  Attachment to these objects develops from attachment. Desire is born
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  from desire. Anger comes forth from anger. Proceeds delusion from delusion,
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  confused memory from confused memory, the destruction of reason. From
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  destruction of reason, you perish. Attachment is a long standing
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  associate of anger. Control anger through patience, inquiry, self restrained love,
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  and meditation. This is manly and divine. This is wise
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  and glorious. To become angry for trifling things is mean, childish,
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  and brutal. An angry man is angry with himself when
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  he comes to his senses. Anger is personal and usually selfish,
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  aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself. Indignation is
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  impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts. Pure indignation is
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  not followed by regret and needs no repentance. It is
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  also more self controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin.
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  Indignation is often a duty. We speak of righteous indignation.
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  Tachment drives one beyond the bounds of prudence of discretion.
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  Fury is stronger and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence.
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  Wrath is deep and vengeful displeasure. It simply expresses the
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  culmination of righteous indignation without malice, in a pure being.
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  Anger is a stronger term than resentment, but not so
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  strong as indignation, which is awakened by what is flagitious
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  in character or conduct. Nor is wrath fury rage in
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  which anger is wrought up to a still higher point.
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  In the order of these words, anger is a sudden
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  sentiment of displeasure. Resentment is a continued anger. Wrath is
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  a heightened sentiment of anger. Philosophy of anger, it will
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  be admitted on all hands that everyone, without any exception whatsoever,
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  is a victim of this horrible malady. Indeed, control of
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  anger will bring in its trained supreme peace and immeasurable joy.
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  As such, let me presently describe in detail what anger is,
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  its various forms, how it affects the nervous system, its
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  exact relationship with passion, and lastly, the various practical methods
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  that can be safely employed to effectively eradicate it. Root
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  and branch. My one fervent appeal to you all is
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  that you will apply yourselves, heart and soul to the
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  eradication of this dire disease by following these valuable practices.
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  Anger is a thought wave or modification that arises in
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  the mind lake when the qualities restlessness and inertia predominate.
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  It is the passion or restlessness quality thought wave. Some
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  take it as inertia or darkness quality thought wave. It
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  is a wave of unpleasant feeling that arises from the
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  mind when one gets displeased with another. It is, in
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  other words, a modification of desire or passion. Just as
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  milk is changed into curd, so also desire becomes changed
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  into anger. It is the most formidable enemy of peace,
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  knowledge and devotion. It is the straightest road to hell itself.
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  Anger is a manifestation of sacty power or devy. In Chandipath,
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  you will find I bow again and again to that
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  Devy who is seated in all beings in the form
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  of anger. It was our Junah who asked Sri Krishna,
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  but what impels man to commit sin o Krishna in
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  spite of himself? And driven as it were, by force,
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  The Blessed Lord said, it is desire. It is wrath
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  which springs from passion. Know that it is our enemy.
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  Here a monster of greed and sin, as a flame,
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  is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, and
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  as an unborn babe by the womb. So is this
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  enveloped by that? Then, again, says Sri Krishna, three are
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  the gateways of this hell, leading to the ruin of
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  the soul, Lust, wrath, and greed. Therefore, let man renounce
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  these three. Anger resides in the subtle astral body, but
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  it percolates into the physical body, just as water percolates
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  through the pores to the outer surface of an earthen pot.
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  Just as heat melts lead. Just as heat and borics
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  melt gold, so also pleasure and anger, the heating factors
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  of the mind, melt the mind. Anger begets eight kinds
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  of vices. All evil qualities and actions proceed from anger.
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  If you can eradicate anger, all bad qualities will die
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  by themselves. The eight vices are injustice, rashness, persecution, jealousy,
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  taking possession of other's property, killing, harsh words, and cruelty.
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  When a man's desire is not gratified, and when someone
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  stands in the way of its fulfillment, the man becomes angry.
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  The desire gets transformed into anger. When one is under
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  the sway of anger, he will commit all sorts of
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  sinful deeds. He loses his memory, his understanding becomes clouded,
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  and his intellect gets perverted. Form Anger comes delusion from delusion,
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  the loss of memory from laws of memory, the destruction
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  of discrimination from destruction of discrimination, he perishes. Anger is
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  the greatest enemy. Contentment is though the heavenly flower of indra,
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  and peace is the wish fulfilling cow. Therefore, take to
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  forgiveness Outmann is different from the body, the senses, vital energy,
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  and the intellect. It is self effulgent, unchangeable, pure and formless.
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  An angry man commits murder. He himself does not know
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  what he is exactly doing. He becomes emotional and impulsive.
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  A man when he is angry, will talk anything, He
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  will do anything he likes. A hot word results in
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  fighting and stabbing. He is under intoxication. He loses his
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  normal consciousness for the time being. He falls a prey
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  to anger, irritation, frowning, resentment, indignation, rage, fury, wrath are
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  all varieties of anger according to the degree of intensity.
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  If a man wants to correct another man manifest slight
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  anger unselfishly as a force to check and improve him,
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  then it is called righteous indignation or spiritual anger. Suppose
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  a man molests a woman and tries to outrage her modesty,
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  and a bystander becomes angry with the criminal, it is
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  called righteous indignation or noble rage. This is not bad.
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  Only when the anger is the outcome of greed, of
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  selfish motives, it is bad. Sometimes a religious teacher has
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  to manifest a little anger outwardly to correct his disciples.
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  This is not bad. He has to do it, but
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  he should be cool within and hot and impetuous without.
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  He should not allow the anger to take deep root
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  in his mind for a long time. It should pass
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  off the next moment, even as a wave subsides in
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  the sea. If a man becomes irritable for trifling things
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  very often, it is a definite sign of mental weakness.
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  When a man abuses you, and when a man takes
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  away your cloth or coat, if you keep quiet, that
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  is a positive sign of inner strength. Self restraint or
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  self control is a sign of great mental strength. An
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  easily irritable man is always unjust. He is swayed by
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  impulses and emotions. Anger gains strength by repetition. If it
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  is checked, then and there man gains immense strength of will.
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  When anger is controlled, it becomes transmuted into spiritual energy
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  that can move the three worlds. Just as heat or
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  light is changed into electricity, so also anger becomes changed
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  into energy. Energy takes another form. Energy is wasted enormously
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  when one gets angry. The whole nervous system is shattered
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  by an outburst of anger. The eyes become red, the
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  body quivers, the legs and hands tremble. No one can
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  check an angry man. He gets enormous strength for the
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  time being and gets a collapse after some time on
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  account of reaction. Instances are recorded wherein women have killed
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  their children by nursing them with breast milk when they
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  were in a fit of anger. Various poisons are thrown
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  into the blood. When one is angry, Fiery dark arrows
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  shoot out from the astral body. These can be seen
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  clearly by clairvoyant eye. In the light of modern psychology,
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  all diseases take their origin in anger. Rheumatism, heart disease,
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  nervous disease are all due to anger. It takes some
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  months for the restoration of normal equilibrium in the nervous system.
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  Passion is the root and anger the stem. You will
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  have to destroy the root of passion first, then the
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  stem of anger will die by itself. A passionate man
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  is more angry. A celibate who has preserved his seminal
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  energy always keeps a bautalanced mind. He has a cool
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  brain at all times. The root cause of anger is
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  ignorance and egoism. Through self inquiry, egoism should be removed.
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  Then alone can one control his anger completely. Through development
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  of the opposite virtues such as forgiveness, love, peace, compassion, friendship,
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  et cetera, anger can be controlled to an enormous degree.
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  The force can be reduced adm knowledge alone can fry
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  all mental impressions of anger and eradicated. In Toto, if
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  an aspirant has controlled anger, half of his spiritual practice
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  is over. Control of anger means control of lust. Also,
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  control of anger is really control of mind. He who
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  has controlled anger cannot do any wrong or evil action.
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  He is always just. It is very difficult to say,
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  when a man will be thrown into a fit of fury,
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  all of a sudden he gets in irresistible fit of anger.
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  For trifling matters. When anger assumes a grave form, it
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  becomes difficult to control. It should therefore be controlled, even
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  when it is in the form of a small ripple
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  in the subconscious mind. One should watch his mind very,
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  very cautiously. Whenever there is the least symptom or indication
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  of light irritability, then and there it must be nipped.
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  Then it becomes very easy to control anger. Be careful
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  and vigilant, and watch the ripple. Then only you are
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  a sage. Whenever there is a little irritability, stop all
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  conversation and observe silence. The practice of silence daily for
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  one or two hours is of great help in controlling anger.
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  Always try to speak sweet, soft words. The words must
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  be soft and the arguments hard. But if the reverse
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  is the case, it will lead to discord and disharmony.
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  There is a sharp sword in every tongue. If you
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  find it difficult to control anger, leave the place at
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  once and take a brisk walk. Drink some cold water immediately.
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  This cools down the body and mind, chant o m
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  loudly like a lion for ten minutes, and then chant
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  o M piece mentally or verbally for five minutes. Think
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  of the picture of your beloved deity. Pray repeat your
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  beloved deity mantra for ten minutes. Gradually the anger will vanish.
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  Find out the real cause of your anger, and try
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  to eradicate it. If a man abuses you and calls
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  you names, you become furious at once. Your blood becomes hot.
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  Why do you feel offended when he calls you a
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  dog or a donkey? Have you developed now four legs
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  and tail like a dog? Why do you get excited
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  for little things? Inquire? What is this abuse? Is it
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  not mere vibration in the ether? Am I body or otman?
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  No one can injure otman the ottman of the abuser
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  and the abused is one. Do I really gain anything
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  by retaliating? I waste my energy, I hurt the feeling
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  of another man. I disturb and pollute the thought world.
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  I do real harm to the world by sending a
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  current of hatred. This world is unreal. I will live
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  here for a short time only let me bear this insult,
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  let me excuse him. I will develop inner mental strength
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  and power of endurance. You can thus very effectively eradicate
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  the feelings of anger. A time will come when you
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  will not be irritated even a bit by harsh words, abuses,
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  and insults of this kind. You will not pay the
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  least heed. If a man says that such and such
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  a man has said bad words against you, you will
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  simply laugh the whole matter away. An irritable man is
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  very weak and has no mental strength. You must try
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  to remain cool will even in the most provocative conditions.
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  If you are hungry, and if you suffer from any disease,
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  you generally become more irritable. If you have some troubles, difficulties,
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  or loss, you get irritated for little things. If a
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  renuncient who lives in the cave says that he has
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  controlled anger, you cannot believe him. The waves are for
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  the time being suppressed. There are no opportunities for his
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  getting irritated. If some transactions take place, if he is
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  ill treated, he will again manifest his anger. The world
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  is a better training college for the control of anger.
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  An aspirant should direct all his attention towards the conquest
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  of this powerful enemy. Pure food, constant repetition of a mantra,
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  regular meditation, prayer, the association with great souls, service, self inquiry, praise,
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  practice of breath control, and celibacy. All are some of
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  the most potent factors that pave a long way in
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  eradicating this dire malady. A combined method should be adopted
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  in its eradication. Smoking, meat, eating, and drinking of liquors
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  make men very irritable. Therefore these should be completely abandoned.
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  Be careful in the choice of your company. Give up
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  the companionship of evil characters. Talk little, mix little, Plunge
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  yourself into the spiritual practice. Develop forgiveness, cosmic love, mercy,
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  and the absence of egoism. Meditate in the morning on
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  the virtue of patience for ten minutes. Reflect and repeat
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  the formula O am patience mentally several times daily. Remember
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  the saints and their lives. Say unto yourself, I am
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  patient now. I will never get irritated from to day.
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  I will manifest the virtue of patience in my daily life.
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  I am getting better and better. Feel that you possess
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  a magazine of patience. Think of the advantages of possessing
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  this virtue and the disadvantages of irritability. You may fail
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  many times, but you will develop patience gradually and become
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  an embodiment of patience. He who is able to resist
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  the force of desire and anger even before he quits
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  his body, he is a yogin. He is a blessed man.
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  Those who are free from desires and anger, and who
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  have subdued their minds and realized themselves. Around such austere
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  men lies the beatitude of God. Do not identify yourself
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  with the thought wave of anger. When a wave of
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  anger arises in the mind lake stand as a witness
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  of the thought wave. Become indifferent. Say unto yourself, I
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  am witness of this modification. I am distinct from this
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  thought wave. I have nothing to do with this wave.
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  Then this thought wave will die by itself. It will
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  not disturb you. Identification with the thought wave is the
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  cause of human sufferings. Identify yourself with the self. Stand
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  like a lion as a spectator of the mental menagerie.
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  Lithe in the spirit of the above two slocas. Eradicate anger,
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  manifest inner spiritual strength, realize existence, consciousness, bliss, oughtman glory.
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  Unto those who have rooted out their anger and attain
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  knowledge of the self. Anger more powerful than desire. It
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  is usual to regard anger as a corollary or counterpart
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  of desire, since it usually appears when desire becomes frustrated. Psychologically,
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  the two are interrelated. Yet from the point of view
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  of the spiritual aspirant, whose main task is to purify
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  the mind, anger is a more powerful foe than desire.
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  It is worth while analyzing the cause of the defeat
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  too frequently sustained by the spiritual aspirant when he wages
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  war with anger. First, it has to be remembered that
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  the spiritual aspirant has to carry the fight all alone
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  and unaided. In this encounter with pleasure, he has the
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  cooperation of society. Public opinion bears the brunt of the warfare.
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  If he reveals his pleasure in its objectionable form, he
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  falls in the estimation of those whose good opinion he values.
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  To be columniated by his detractors is wounding to his vanity.
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  To be reproved by his friends is painful. To be
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  thought ill of, even by those towards whom he is indifferent,
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  is displeasing to him. All these thoughts are positive aids
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  in carrying out his mental fight with pleasure. Far different
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  is his condition when he attempts to conquer anger. Exhibition
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  of temper is not regarded as a moral delinquency by
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  the public. Provocation is put forth as an excuse and
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  justification for reprehensible outbursts of anger, and is accepted as
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  a mitigatory plea by the indulgent public. Society seems to
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  stand still with folded arms when an angry person frets, llumes,
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  or raves. It would appear that society even goes to
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  the enemy's camp and goad's anger to strike harder and harder,
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  so as to thoroughly overpower the lonely victim. Not infrequently
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  are found a good many who irritate an already angry
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  man merely for the fun of seeing him. Infuriated. Men
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  are so callous by nature that they are pleased when
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  gazing upon the antics of a lunatic, and the difference
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  between an angry person and a maniac is only one
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  of degree. The result is that the spiritual aspirant, when
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  assailed by his arch enemy anger, is too often overpowered. Secondly,
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  there operates certain sentiments which put on the cloak of
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  virtues and misguide the unwary spiritual pilgrim. One such is
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  named self respect. Forgetful of the fundamental truth that the
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  aspirants should be indifferent alike to praise and censure, he
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  takes his stand on self respect, after all, a slippery
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  and unreliable foothold, and in his over anxiety to protect it,
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  fails to notice the stealthy approach of his full anger
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  till it is too late. Love of country, duty to
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  one's own wife and children, solicitude for the needy and
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  the poor are all wrongly regarded as justification for getting angry.
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  Whatever may be the value of these sentiments from the
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  point of view of the community or the nation, they
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  should not cloud the understanding of the spiritual aspirant, whose
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  one and only aim should be to conquer his mind.
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  Anger like fever, is a symptom which shows that something
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  has gone wrong in the inner mechanism. The mental machinery
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  gets heated for want of timely lubrication. The most effective
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  of all lubricants is introspection or reflection. Even the most
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  angry man realizes his folly after his anger is spent out.
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  It is then that he begins to reflect upon what
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  he did. If this reflection had come to him before
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  he got angry, he would not have got angry at all.
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  But that would be possible only if he had made
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  reflection or introspection over his head habit. The habit must
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  be formed in good time if the evil is to
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  be averted. Because of anger, anger makes everybody its slave
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  and victim. It breaks the friendship of even very intimate friends.
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  It even induces wives to quarrel with their husbands and
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  make them file suits. It excites all, It holds sway
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  more or less over the whole world and the divine beings. Also,
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  anger destroys reason and makes man do things which cannot
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  be dreamt of. Under the influence of anger, man abuses, insults,
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  and even murders his father, brother, wife, guru or king
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  in repents afterwards. Anger influenced even Hanemon, the mightiest celibate,
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  to burn Lanka. He lost his understanding and then repented,
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  alas I have burnt the whole of Lanka under the
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  influence of anger. This fire might have burnt Mother Ceda. Also,
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  What shall I do now? How can I return without
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  Joonicky day? I became a victim to anger. How powerful
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  is anger? I am a powerful celibate. I have destroyed
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  passion to its very root and branch, and yet I
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  have not controlled anger. How powerful it is. It is
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  more powerful than passion. Too much loss of seamen is
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  the chief cause of irritability and anger. Passion is the root,
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  and anger the stem. You will have to destroy the
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  root of passion first. Then the stem of anger will
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  die by itself. A passionate man is more angry. A
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  man who has wasted his seminal energy becomes irritated soon
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  for little things. Even a celibate who has preserved his
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  seminal energy always keeps a balanced mind. He has a
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  cool brain at all times. Eradicate anger, manifest in her
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  spiritual strength, realize existence, consciousness, bliss, oughtman, glory unto those
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  who have rooted out their anger and attained knowledge of
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  the self. Hints for control of anger. One, Be alert, pray,
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  do more constant repetition of a mantra, practice self inquiry,
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  keep a watch over your mind. Be silent, observe silence
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  daily for an hour. Forget and forgive, bear insult and injury.
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  Observe celibacy. Two. See God in all submit to God's will,
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  Then you cannot get angry. Three in the morning, meditate
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  on the virtue of patience. Manifest it during the day.
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  Take a vow I will practice endurance and forgiveness during
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  the day. Four Speak sweetly, speak little, Five mix little,
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  have congenial company, have the association with great souls. Read
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  spiritual books. Six Remember the lives of saints like Eknaf,
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  the Avante Brahmin of the lt H Skanda of the Bagavada.
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  You will derive inspiration. You will develop love and forgiveness. Seven.
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  Give up intoxicating liquors, meat and tobacco. Eight remember the
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  Guidhaslocus describing anger as monster and gate to hell. Nine.
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  If you find it difficult to control anger, leave the
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  place at once. Take a long walk, drink cold water,
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  repeat O, M P S L zero times. Do constant
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  repetition of your beloved mantra or count from one to thirty.
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  Anger will subside. Ten. Stand as a witness of the
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  thought wave of anger. Be indifferent to it. Do not
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  identify yourself with it. Identify yourself with the Yatman. Fill
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  the mind with ideas of love Joe et cetera. Eleven,
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  Develop patience, to a considerable extent. People lose their temper
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  when they become impatient. Allow the mind to dwell constantly
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  on the opposite of anger, the virtue of patience. This
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  is the opposite thought cultivation. Countering negative thoughts by nurturing
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  positive or opposing ones method of Roger Yogins. Twelve. Do
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  not give vent to anger. Control the body first, have
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  physical control. Practice this again and again. Be regular in
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  your repetition of a mantra and meditation and praise. This
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  will give you great inner spiritual strength. Thirteen. Food has
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  a great deal to do with irritability. Take milk, fruits, monkey, doll, curd, spinach, barley,
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  ground nuts, buttermilk. Do not take carrots, onion, garlic, cauliflower,
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  massore key, do all and drumstick. Fourteen. Observe silence for
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  two hours daily. Occasionally observe silence for a whole day.
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  This will put a check on the impulse of speech.
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  When a man gets excited, he speaks anything in everything.
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  He has no control over the organ of speech. Fifteen.
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  Vital energy entwines the mind like a creeper. Practice of
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  breath control leads to the control of mind. Practice of
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  breath control will put a brake on the impulse of speech.
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  It will give you abundant energy to check anger. Sixteen.
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  Do not argue much, do not retort, Speak sweetly always,
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  do not use abusive words. Become a man of measured words.
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  If a man abuses or insults you, keep quiet. Identify
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  yourself with Ottmann. Oughtman is the same in all. It
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  can never be hurt or insulted. Seventeen of Dantin denies
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  the body and mind as illusory sheaths. He does self inquiry,
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  inquires who am I, and practices neddinetti. Not this, not this,
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  I am not body, I am not mind. I am
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  supreme bliss of pure consciousness. I am divine consciousness, one
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  with the absolute consciousness. I am blissful Shiva or Ottman.
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  He identifies himself with Brahmin or Atman, the eternal. The
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  world is unreal for him. He chants O M, sings
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  O M, and does repetition of a mantra of O M,
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  and meditates on O M, and derives soul power and
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  spiritual strength. Eighteen if you entertain unreal perception false perception,
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  if you look into the defects of anger and the
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  benefits of patience, you will never become angry nineteen. The
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  combined method is more effective. If one method fails, take
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  recourse to the combined method. Do the constant repetition of
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  a mantra, practice of breath control. Sometimes due self inquiry.
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  Song of anger. Anger is very powerful. It can destroy
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  all austerity. It subdued Dervasa, It conquered Sageyajnovalkia. It is
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  the enemy of peace. It is the foe of knowledge.
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  It is born of passion quality. Irritability is another form.
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  It is all devouring, It is all powerful. It is
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  the gate of the hell. It destroys the atmic pearl.
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  When desire is not gratified, it manifests in the mind lake.
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  It makes the individual being senseless. It makes him do
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  all unrighteousness. It makes him more furious, It makes him
• 30:49
  its slave. It makes him perfectly blind. It makes him
• 30:54
  lose his understanding. Anger has its reason for being. If
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  there is no desire, there will be no activity. The
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  whole world will come to a standstill. But you will
• 31:05
  have to convert all desires into one strong desire, the
• 31:09
  desire for liberation. Anger has its usefulness. Mother punishes the
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  child for its correction. A king punishes the criminal for
• 31:19
  his correction. Anger gives protection. Convert delusion into attachment for God.
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  Convert greed for money into generosity and charity. You will
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  be elevated. Forms of hatred Jealousy is hatred. Anger is hatred.
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  Aversion is hatred. Envy is hatred. Intolerance is hatred, anger envy, jealousy.
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  Impatience is hatred. Remove hatred through love, prayer, repetition of
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  a mantra, service, and meditation. Boomerang. Anger acts as a
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  boomerang because it injures the man who becomes angry. It
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  comes back to the angry man and does harm to him. Therefore,
• 32:07
  control anger by forgiveness, love, inquiry, and service. Ill effects
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  of anger. Anger is born of ignorance. Anger is a
• 32:17
  modification of desire. Anger arises from avarice selfishness. Anger arises
• 32:24
  when one is insulted, abused, criticized, when his defects are
• 32:29
  pointed out. Anger springs and a desire is not gratified.
• 32:34
  Anger comes when someone stands in the way of gratifying
• 32:37
  one's desire. Anger manifests from loving one's own opinion, from
• 32:42
  desiring to be honored, from imagining that one is wiser
• 32:46
  and superior than everybody. Anger obstructs reason, Anger cloud's understanding
• 32:52
  and poisons the blood, nerves and the whole system. Annihilate
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  anger through love, forgiveness, inquiry, devotion, discrimination, wisdom, prayer, service,
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  pure food, selflessness, desirelessness, repetition of a mantra, meditation, eternal perception,
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  absorbed meditative perception dialog on anger anger. I will make
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  the people blind in death. I will overpower them with
• 33:20
  wrath and suffocate them with rage. I will catch hold
• 33:24
  of even wise men. They shall neither hearken to what
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  concerns their own happiness, nor reflect what they had read
• 33:31
  in the scriptures. Instigated by me. Indra killed Ritra, the
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  son of Tvashtra. Lord Shiva cut off the head of Brahma.
• 33:39
  The Kaushika killed the sons of Vasishta. In a moment,
• 33:43
  I can destroy even the learned, the famous, those who
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  are attentive to duties, charitable, and the mighty podentates. I
• 33:50
  can infuse fury, resentment, wrath, indignation into the minds of
• 33:55
  all in the twinkling of an eye. I am very powerful.
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  I will disturb the austerity of the aspirant and even
• 34:02
  Jogi's and destroy calmness of mind, the individual being alas,
• 34:07
  who will help me now? Forgiveness? I will. I will
• 34:12
  pull out the venomous tooth of this demon anger, universal love,
• 34:17
  I will, and I am the water to quench the
• 34:20
  fire of anger. Discrimination. I will. When I rise, anger dies.
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  The story of a holy man who had controlled anger.
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  This is the cut of the famous Santananda. See the
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  colorful board proclaims this is the abode of Santananda, who
• 34:38
  has acquired complete mastery over anger. Come let us have
• 34:43
  the sight of such a Maharaj or great soul set
• 34:46
  a pious man to his friend. Oh no, it is
• 34:49
  not so easy to control anger. Don't be deceived. What
• 34:54
  will you gain by the sight of this proud man
• 34:56
  who advertises his angerlessness. If you wish, you can go
• 35:01
  in and have the sight of the great soul. But
• 35:04
  please stay there till the evening, and then tell me
• 35:07
  if you would still admire the divine soul. I am off,
• 35:11
  and he went away. When the pious soul entered the cuter,
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  little did he know that his friend had set out
• 35:17
  to collect instigators of irritation. Maharaj said the pious man,
• 35:22
  prostrating himself to the great soul. What a great and
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  divine soul you are to have acquired mastery over this
• 35:28
  formidable foe of man anger. There is no one in
• 35:32
  the three worlds equal to you. Even so, it is
• 35:35
  my friend, the man who has conquered anger is greater
• 35:39
  than Brahma, Rodra and Indra, for even they were often
• 35:43
  overpowered by anger. Maharaj, will you kindly tell me the
• 35:47
  way to control anger? Oh? Yes, gladly, kindly remain with
• 35:52
  me and serve me. Even by such service of great
• 35:56
  souls you will get over anger, and the pious man
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  became the great Soul's disciple. Another young man entered, Maharaj,
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  you are the great soul who has controlled anger? Oh yes?
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  Did you not see the board outside? Yes? Yes, Please
• 36:14
  tell me how you manage to do that by my
• 36:17
  strong will power. There is nothing that a man of
• 36:21
  strong will power will not be able to do. Wonderful,
• 36:25
  thank you. The young man leaves the cottage almost instantly.
• 36:31
  Another young man enters, Maharaj, have you controlled anger? Oh yes?
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  Did you not see the board outside? Yes? Yes, Please
• 36:41
  tell me how you manage to do that? By meditation
• 36:45
  on the all pervading immortal peaceful otman that dwells in
• 36:48
  all beings. When one self alone pervades all, how can
• 36:52
  one be angered against another? How can one abuse another?
• 36:55
  And how can one harm or injure another? Through protracted
• 36:59
  meditation on this great truth, I have got over this
• 37:02
  anger which destroys the peace of man. Wonderful, thank you.
• 37:08
  The young man leaves the cottage instantly, another young man appears. Maharaj,
• 37:14
  Have you completely annihilated anger? Oh? Yes? Did you not
• 37:19
  see the board outside? Yes? Yes, Maharaj? But how did
• 37:24
  you manage to do that? Come sit down? I will
• 37:29
  tell you you see. Passion and anger are the twin
• 37:32
  children of the restlessness attribute. Now, if you persistently and
• 37:37
  diligently cultivate purity in you, you can completely eradicate these
• 37:41
  restless qualities. I ate pure food. I always entertained pure thoughts.
• 37:48
  I uttered pure words full of love, truth, solicitude, and kindness.
• 37:53
  I practiced pure austerity. I performed pure charity. I always
• 37:59
  studied scriptural texts, which increased the purity in the mind.
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  I live and move constantly in pure atmosphere. Through practice
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  of breath control. Also, I have increased the pure content
• 38:11
  of my mind. Friend, it is a long and hard struggle.
• 38:16
  But at last I have achieved the goal. I have
• 38:19
  attained success in my spiritual practice. I am an embodiment
• 38:24
  of purity. Now I am full of love. Anger has vanished. Wonderful,
• 38:30
  thank you. The young man leaves the cottage at once.
• 38:34
  Another man enters, Maharaj, Have you controlled anger? Oh? Yes?
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  Did you not see the board outside? Yes? Yes, But
• 38:44
  I want to know how you achieved it. I wish
• 38:47
  to go out to answer calls of nature, but never mind.
• 38:52
  My duty towards you, my own self is more important.
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  I will tell you the secret. You see, anger has
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  various forms. You are fully aware of the grossest form.
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  The blood boils, the eyes are blood shot, There is
• 39:09
  great heat in the body. Limbs tremble, lips quiver, fists
• 39:13
  are clenched, and the man stammers and fumbles for words
• 39:16
  in great fury. The subtler form of irritability you know about.
• 39:21
  In a milder form, all the symptoms I have just
• 39:24
  described exist here. Also still subtler is displeasure. It is
• 39:29
  pride mixed with anger. With a sharp word or a grunt,
• 39:33
  you dismiss the nuisance. These are all forms of anger
• 39:38
  in extremely subtle forms, anger becomes righteous indignation and pity.
• 39:43
  The man who thinks that he is always in the
• 39:45
  right gives vent to what he calls righteous indignation in
• 39:48
  order to protect righteousness. If he does not, he in
• 39:52
  the lordly style, pities the person who has offended him.
• 39:56
  Now I have got over and beyond all these forms
• 39:59
  of anger. Even the pure righteous indignation and pity do
• 40:03
  not trouble me. Now I first controlled the gross forms
• 40:06
  of anger. The anger arose in mind, and it subsided
• 40:10
  there itself. Then by meditation, I controlled these subtle ripples
• 40:15
  of irritability. By the diligent cultivation of a feeling of oneness,
• 40:19
  I got over the displeasure form of anger. I cultivated
• 40:23
  indifference towards wicked people, and thereby got over the outbursts
• 40:27
  of righteous indignation and pity. Now I shine as Santanander,
• 40:31
  radiating peace and happiness to all. Thank you, Maharaj wonderful.
• 40:37
  The young man leaves, crossing the next at the threshold.
• 40:42
  Santanandajy rose from his seat and once more attempted to
• 40:45
  leave the hall, when the next young man accosted him. Maharaj,
• 40:49
  just a minute, have you controlled anger. In a slightly
• 40:54
  raised voice, Satanandaji said, yes, why do you ask that question?
• 40:58
  Have you not seen the border outside? Yes, Maharaj, but
• 41:04
  I want to know how I can do that. I
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  will tell you. Drink a glass of cold water when
• 41:10
  you find your temporizing, or count from one to twenty,
• 41:14
  or leave the place at once. And Santanandiji tried to
• 41:19
  leave the hall along with the young man when the
• 41:21
  next one rushed in. Maharaj, have you controlled anger? And
• 41:25
  how visibly affected by this annoyance? Only to avoid this
• 41:31
  constant repetition of the truth, I have announced it on
• 41:34
  the board outside. I have told the methods also to
• 41:37
  a number of people, But I want to hear from
• 41:40
  your holy lips. All right, observe silence. You will be
• 41:45
  able to control anger. Thank you, Maharaj. Look here, said Santanandiji,
• 41:52
  addressing the pious man who came first and who had
• 41:55
  been watching all these proceedings. See that no one enters
• 41:58
  the cuter for some time till I answer call of nature,
• 42:00
  bathe and have my food and rest. Maharaj. If I
• 42:04
  begin to prevent them, they will quarrel with me and
• 42:07
  I will lose my temper. I won't do that. I
• 42:11
  want to be your true disciple. At once, another young
• 42:15
  man rushed inside. Maharaj, you have completely eradicated anger, and
• 42:19
  how Santananiji, addressing the first disciple, Please ask him to
• 42:24
  go away. I have to answer calls of nature urgently.
• 42:29
  But won't you share your secrets with me? Maharaj pleaded
• 42:32
  the latest arrival. I won't drive him out. Why should
• 42:37
  I lose my temper, said the first disciple. I will
• 42:41
  kick both of you out of my house, roared Santananda.
• 42:45
  Good for nothing, young man, troubling me the whole day
• 42:47
  without letting me have a few moments respite. What do
• 42:51
  you think I am a gramophone box or a radio
• 42:54
  receiving set. I have told you once and more than
• 42:57
  once that I have got over anger, and these people
• 43:01
  come again and again to trouble me. Get out all
• 43:04
  of you and see me no more. If you stay
• 43:07
  here for a minute more, I will murder you. Here.
• 43:10
  Take this and get out. If you don't believe that
• 43:12
  I have the strength to handle you, He slaps the
• 43:16
  two young men, drives them out and locks the door outside.
• 43:20
  The pious man's friend was waiting. Have you had the
• 43:24
  sight of the Great Maharaj who has controlled anger. Are
• 43:27
  you satisfied? Said he to the pious man who went
• 43:30
  in to have the great soul's sight. It is not
• 43:33
  so easy to control anger. It can be controlled only
• 43:37
  through God's grace. Continuous practice of humility is necessary. Ego
• 43:43
  must be crushed, Cosmic love must be cultivated. Selfless service
• 43:49
  must be ceaselessly and untiringly practiced. Even then, the seat
• 43:53
  of anger will be there, hidden in the bosom you
• 43:56
  don't know where it hides itself. By constant repetition of
• 44:00
  a mantra, meditation and ceaseless spiritual practice with self surrender
• 44:05
  to the Lord, by constant prayer, O, Lord, I am nothing.
• 44:09
  I will be done, and Lord grant me freedom from
• 44:12
  all vice. You will be able to invite his grace. Then,
• 44:16
  when the all pervading self is realized and knowledge is obtained,
• 44:20
  then and then alone, will this greatest enemy of man,
• 44:23
  anger be totally annihilated. Well well, in any case, this
• 44:28
  Santurnanda had a little bit of success in his spiritual practice.
• 44:32
  He had also given us valuable hints on how to
• 44:35
  control anger. We are all benefited. He had failed only
• 44:40
  because while he had controlled anger to a certain extent.
• 44:43
  He had allowed vanity to grow in him to the
• 44:45
  same extent. Anger only had taken the form of vanity
• 44:49
  in him. Ego assumes various forms. All these forms are
• 44:54
  different in name. Only he who finds out the hiding
• 44:58
  places of this formidable ego, and through ruthless inquiry into
• 45:01
  the nature of the ego and the nature of the self,
• 45:04
  which is the reality behind this false ego, he and
• 45:07
  he alone can be said to have controlled anger. He
• 45:10
  will not only have annihilated anger, but he would have
• 45:13
  destroyed all vices. He will be humble, simple and divine,
• 45:18
  an embodiment of love and compassion. Come, we shall continue
• 45:22
  our search for such a divine personality. His sight will
• 45:26
  purify us, his service will elevate us to divine heights.
• 45:31
  Twelve epistles of Sivanandah One perfection in yoga, Nectar's Child.
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  You can become a perfect yogi when you have touched
• 45:40
  the super conscious level. Thinking of the past and anxiety
• 45:44
  about the future is a hindrance. In meditation. When the
• 45:48
  restless waves of the mind subside, there arises gradually divine bliss.
• 45:53
  The highest good is the vision of truth eternal and
• 45:56
  imperishable in your own self. May you shine as a
• 46:00
  dynamic Yogi. May the Lord bless you Seevanandah two the
• 46:06
  dynamics of the driving force immortal atman. Spirituality is a
• 46:12
  driving force in evolution. The individual being flame wants to
• 46:17
  join its source, Supreme Brahmin. The function of revelation begins
• 46:21
  when that of reason leaves off. Arm yourself with the
• 46:25
  shield of discrimination. Build up the life of calm, strength, repose,
• 46:30
  and peace through meditation. May the Lord bless you Seevanandah
• 46:37
  free true charity. To be kind and loving is charity.
• 46:42
  To forget and forgive some harm done to you is charity.
• 46:46
  A kind word said to a suffering man is charity.
• 46:50
  Even a little meditation saves one from fear of death.
• 46:54
  Spiritual progress is not measured by spiritual powers or powers,
• 46:58
  but only by the depth of your in meditation. May
• 47:02
  the Lord bless you Sivananda for the process of yoga.
• 47:08
  The purpose of life is the realization of the essential
• 47:11
  divinity in man. The science of yoga points out the
• 47:15
  way yoga is primarily a process of self culture. Practice
• 47:21
  of yoga bestows a rich and full life. Practice of
• 47:25
  self restraint, mental equipoise, truthfulness, compassion, purity, selflessness, and meditation
• 47:31
  constitutes the process of yoga. May the Lord bless you,
• 47:36
  Sivananda five. Ethical foundation of yoga. Ethical discipline is a
• 47:43
  necessary prerequisite for philosophical inquiry and self realization. Ethics is
• 47:49
  an inquiry into the nature of good and is concerned
• 47:51
  with an analysis of the concepts of good and bad,
• 47:54
  virtue and vice, right and wrong. Goodness is love in action.
• 48:00
  Supreme goodness is God. Goodness is virtue, benevolence. May the
• 48:06
  Lord bless you, Sivananda. Six. Essence of spiritual life, peaceful, auspicious,
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  and beautiful, radiant, ever, pure and immortal is the nature
• 48:18
  of the inner consciousness, the Atman that pervades all creation.
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  To realize this inner consciousness is the essence of spiritual life.
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  Eliminate all that is negative and develop all that is
• 48:30
  sublime and good. May the Lord bless you, Sivananda. Seven.
• 48:37
  Thou art that self realization is not a state of
• 48:41
  non existence or mere blankness. It is herein now. It
• 48:46
  is nothing to be attained afresh. You need not reach
• 48:50
  or attain the Aatman or the supreme self. You are. Indeed,
• 48:54
  they Aatman. Self realization can be attained by men and
• 48:58
  women while living in the world and w while discharging
• 49:00
  their daily duties. May the Lord bless you, Seevananda. Eight
• 49:07
  Aids to self realization. Brahman or the supreme Self is
• 49:11
  realizable by this method of direct vision or intuition, though
• 49:15
  not knowable by the ordinary rational methods. Unselfishness, love of
• 49:20
  all beings, and love of God are the three aids
• 49:23
  to self realization. Without appropriate preparatory discipline, one cannot understand
• 49:29
  and discover the truths of the revelations or Vedanta. May
• 49:33
  the Lord bless you Seevananda. Nine the acme of devotion.
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  Know the Lord to be the one real thing in
• 49:42
  the midst of unreal things. Remember God, take his name,
• 49:47
  Always meditate upon him, feel his presence everywhere. Trust in
• 49:53
  the Lord, surrender yourself to him. He will bless you
• 49:58
  with peace, bliss, plenty, prosperity, immortality, health and success. May
• 50:04
  the Lord bless you Seevanandah. Ten The Yoga of synthesis.
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  The grand aim of human life is to attain God.
• 50:15
  Have one strong desire for attaining God realization through a
• 50:19
  life of service, devotion, purification, charity, spiritual practice and meditation
• 50:25
  attain the highest self realization and dwell in supreme bliss,
• 50:29
  supreme bliss. May the Lord bless you, Seevanandah. Eleven. The
• 50:35
  path to peace, the peace of the eternal is abiding
• 50:39
  peace that ever is the same. Peace is the happy
• 50:43
  natural state of man, selflessness, desirelessness, non attachment, freedom from
• 50:49
  mindness and craving. Devotion to God, self restraint, control of
• 50:54
  senses and mind bring happiness and peace of mind. Peace
• 50:58
  of God fills your heart. Realize this supreme peace through
• 51:02
  devotion and meditation. May the Lord bless you Seevanandah. Twelve.
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  Faith draws grace. Neither art, nor science, nor erudition is
• 51:15
  necessary to approach God or realize Him. What is wanted
• 51:19
  is a pure heart with love and devotion to God,
• 51:22
  a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to Him alone,
• 51:25
  for his sake alone, and to love Him alone. The
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  foundation of spiritual life is absolute faith in God. This
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  will draw soon great grace from God. May the Lord
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  bless you Sevanandah.