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Overcoming the Impulse to Anger · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people believe that both the impulsive desire and the
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  impulse to anger are both inherent deeply established
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  reactions that are either completely impossible or
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  virtually impossible to overcome and remove from one's life.
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  They say that one may succeed in controlling outer expressions of
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  anger through various techniques and training, but that the
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  impulse to anger and the inner reaction that it causes remains,
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  this can have a variety of effects on the being including
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  negative results in terms of physical health, vital energy
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  and mental balance. It is also true that so long as
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  one remains fixated on the ego personality and the vital desire
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  soul. That the individual is subject
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  to the play of the three gunas of Nature.
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  And thus will experience the impulses associated with rajas,
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  in the form of grasping and attachment, the impulse to anger
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  arises out of this action. Particularly when a desire has
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  been frustrated or the will of posed in some form or fashion,
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  the underlying provocative incident need not be a major
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  issue. Once anger, arises it can
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  explode regardless of how minor the provocation may have been.
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  The famous story from the Mahabharata illustrates that
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  anger cannot be controlled through mental Concepts,
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  dronacharya was teaching the princes, the hundred core of Oz.
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  When the five pandavas and the lesson of the day was not to
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  become angry. Every one of the students
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  responded affirmatively when asked that they had learned the
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  lesson, not to become angry. Except the eldest, the Future
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  King and Emperor. Yudhishthira who indicated he
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  had not learned the lesson. this went on for several days
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  repetition until finally on the third day dronacharya in an up
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  Rush of anger struck yudhishthira this was a death
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  sentence for dronacharya as no one strikes, the Crown Prince
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  and gets away with it. At that moment, yudhisthira
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  remark that he had. In fact, now learned the lesson
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  not to become angry, he was able to withstand the blow, not react
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  and not take any steps to punish the revered teacher who had
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  unfortunately lost his temper. Various disciplines seek to
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  control anger. Most of them find that anger
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  management. May suppress the external signs.
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  But nevertheless, the anger reaction prevails internally.
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  This is a temporary success. But at an enormous inner cost
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  physically emotionally and mentally SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother propose, a different solution.
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  By Shifting the standpoint from that of the ego personality to
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  the Divine standpoint, the provocation to anger are no
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  longer provocative. One sees everything in a new
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  light and reacts from a totally different perspective, this can
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  be done either through the discovery and bringing forward
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  of the psychic being hidden in the secret heart, which is a
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  portion of the Divine embodied in the individual being or else
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  through Rising above the mental level, into the spiritual
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  atmosphere. That joins the Consciousness
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  with the universal divine. SRI aurobindo observes quote.
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  It is true that anger and strife are in the nature of the human
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  vital, and do not go easily. But what is important is to have
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  the will to change and the clear perception that these things
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  must go. If that will and perception or
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  there then in the end they will go the most important help to it
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  is here. Also for the psychic being to
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  grow within for that. Brings a certain kind Lena's
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  patients, charity towards all and one no longer regards
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  everything. From the point of view of one's
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  own ego and it's pain or pleasure, likings and disliking.
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  'S, the second help is the growth of the inner peace which
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  outward things cannot trouble with the peace.
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  Comes a wide calm wideness in which one perceives all as
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  oneself and quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the vital anger Pages 58 to 60