WISE WORDS II
About Anger
Negative emotions like lust, pride, attachment, anger, ego, greed, and jealousy are distortions of love. These distortions manifest in animals, but they have no way to go behind them, as they are bound by Nature. Endowed with the power of discrimination, human beings can move from these distortions to a state of pure love. Every sincere seeker wants to get rid of anger and reach state pf perfection.
You may remind yourself hundred times that you shouldn’t’ t not get angry, but if you feel the anger, you are unable to control it. It comes like a thunderstorm. Emotions are much more powerful than our thoughts and the promises you make. Anger is distortion of our true nature. It is part of his creation, but we still call it a distortion because it doesn’t allow the Self to shine forth fully. And this is what a sin is. Anger is a sin, because if you are angry, you loose your centeredness; you loose the sight of the Self.
Anger is a sign of weakness. A strong man doesn’t get angry easily. When you focus on other’s mistakes you are bound to get angry easily.
The cause of anger is the lack of total knowledge of what is happening inside that person. Showing anger itself is not wrong, but being unaware of your anger hurts you. There is a place for showing anger, but if you get angry yourself you are shaken completely. Are you ever happy with the decisions you have made or the words you have spoken when you are angry? No because you loose your total awareness. If you are aware and you are acting angry, that is fine. In fact anger is an instrument. It is useful if you are able to control it. It can work wonders when you know how to use it.
Spiritual practices helps you maintain your centeredness. This is where a little knowledge about ourselves, about our mind, our consciousness and the root of distorting our nature will help. It is when you are exhausted and stressed that you lose your nature and get angry. Breathing techniques and meditation are effective in calming the mind.
Meditation is letting go of anger of the past and the events of the past. It’s accepting that moment and living every moment totally with depth. Often anger comes you don’t accept the present moment. You look for perfection; that is why you are angry at imperfections. Even when someone commits a mistake know that he is not the culprit the stress inside is causing him to make the mistake. Just this understanding and a few days of continuous practice of meditation can change the quality of your life.
Usually you give your anger freely and your smile rarely as though a smile is expensive. To the ignorant, anger is cheap and a smile is costly. To those of knowledge, a smile is free- like sunshine and water- and anger is expensive. Make your smile cheaper and your anger expensive.
Discourse of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Oct 5 in Sathya Sai International Centre, Delhi
Negative emotions like lust, pride, attachment, anger, ego, greed, and jealousy are distortions of love. These distortions manifest in animals, but they have no way to go behind them, as they are bound by Nature. Endowed with the power of discrimination, human beings can move from these distortions to a state of pure love. Every sincere seeker wants to get rid of anger and reach state pf perfection.
You may remind yourself hundred times that you shouldn’t’ t not get angry, but if you feel the anger, you are unable to control it. It comes like a thunderstorm. Emotions are much more powerful than our thoughts and the promises you make. Anger is distortion of our true nature. It is part of his creation, but we still call it a distortion because it doesn’t allow the Self to shine forth fully. And this is what a sin is. Anger is a sin, because if you are angry, you loose your centeredness; you loose the sight of the Self.
Anger is a sign of weakness. A strong man doesn’t get angry easily. When you focus on other’s mistakes you are bound to get angry easily.
The cause of anger is the lack of total knowledge of what is happening inside that person. Showing anger itself is not wrong, but being unaware of your anger hurts you. There is a place for showing anger, but if you get angry yourself you are shaken completely. Are you ever happy with the decisions you have made or the words you have spoken when you are angry? No because you loose your total awareness. If you are aware and you are acting angry, that is fine. In fact anger is an instrument. It is useful if you are able to control it. It can work wonders when you know how to use it.
Spiritual practices helps you maintain your centeredness. This is where a little knowledge about ourselves, about our mind, our consciousness and the root of distorting our nature will help. It is when you are exhausted and stressed that you lose your nature and get angry. Breathing techniques and meditation are effective in calming the mind.
Meditation is letting go of anger of the past and the events of the past. It’s accepting that moment and living every moment totally with depth. Often anger comes you don’t accept the present moment. You look for perfection; that is why you are angry at imperfections. Even when someone commits a mistake know that he is not the culprit the stress inside is causing him to make the mistake. Just this understanding and a few days of continuous practice of meditation can change the quality of your life.
Usually you give your anger freely and your smile rarely as though a smile is expensive. To the ignorant, anger is cheap and a smile is costly. To those of knowledge, a smile is free- like sunshine and water- and anger is expensive. Make your smile cheaper and your anger expensive.
Discourse of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Oct 5 in Sathya Sai International Centre, Delhi
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