Anger

SR No.: 007533
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 25
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 174 KB

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WHEN ONE GETS ANGRY WITH CHILDREN...
Questioner: What should I do when I become angry with my child?
Dadashri Anger happens because of lack of understanding. If you ask your child how he feels when you get angry, he will tell you that it hurts him. He is hurt and you are too. Then is there a need to get angry with the child? If it benefited him, then you could continue with it, but if the consequences are bad, then what is the point of being angry?
Questioner: If we didn't get angry then they wouldn't listen to us, and they wouldn't eat.
Dadashri: So you would intimidate them just so that they would listen to you?
JUST LOOK AT THE SUBTLETY OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES
People will think that a father is worthless because he displays so much anger towards his child. But what sort of justice would this be according to nature? According to nature's law, the father is binding punya. Why is it considered a punya in spite of his anger? It is because he is subjecting himself to turmoil for the benefit of his child. He binds punya because he takes on the strife for the happiness of his child. Generally, all forms of anger will bind paap except where one becomes angry and sacrifices one's own happiness for the happiness of one's child or one's disciple. Here punya is bound. People will look upon him with disgust
Anger
and disapproval. The justice of nature is different. There is no hinsak bhaav (intention to hurt) when you become angry with your son or your daughter, but there is hinsak bhaav everywhere else. His taanto (link of annoyance and anger) however, may linger and if so, whenever he sets eyes on his child, the conflicts will arise inside him.
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Now if neither the intent to hurt nor the link of annoyance were present in the anger, one would attain liberation. If just the hinsak bhaav is missing, but the taanto is still there, then one would bind punya. Just look at the intricate details of discovery of The Lord.
DESPITE ANGER ONE BINDS PUNYA
God tells us that any anger that is done for the sake of others and for the benefit of a greater good, will bind punya.
Now in the Kramic path (the traditional step by step path to Self-Realization), religious disciples live under the fear of being reprimanded by their guru. The guru's eyes become red with anger. Yet, because he becomes angry for the welfare of his disciple, the guru binds punya. Can you imagine how much suffering they have to endure? How is one ever going to be liberated? Liberation is not easy. Only on a rare occasion does one attain something like Akram Vignan.
ANGER IS A KIND OF A SIGNAL
People would say that the man that gets angry with his children is the offender and that he is the one that binds paap, but God does not say that. God would say that he is the offender if as a father he fails to get angry with his