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Anger
Anger
that he has conquered the visible anger, discord.
How are you rewarded when you get angry? First the sparks set you on fire and then you burn others. THE FIRE OF ANGER BURNS ONESELF AND
THEN OTHERS
SULKING IS ANGER
Anger is like putting a lighted match to one's own home. Anger is setting fire to one's own home filled with hay. First his own house burns and then the neighbor's house.
When a person sulks in anger, it is really anger itself. For example, if a husband and wife quarrel intensely in the night, so much anger is generated that they both lay awake restless, the entire night. In the morning the wife serves him tea by banging the teacup. The husband will then realize that she is still sulking. This is called anger. The sulking can last for any period of time. For some it may even be life-long. The father will not want to see the son's face and the son will not want to see the father's face. The sulking is apparent from the disgruntled look on one's face.
What happens when a single match is thrown onto a haystack in a field?
Questioner : It will burn.
Dadashri : It is the same with anger. Whatever he had earned in two years, he will destroy in an instant by getting angry. Anger is a live fire. The person himself will not realize that he has destroyed everything, because the damage is not visible on the outside, but everything from within is destroyed. Part of whatever he has accumulated for the next life is expended. What happens if more is exhausted? As a human, he eats bread but in his next life, as an animal, he will have to eat grass.
Sulking can be such that if someone were to insult me fifteen years ago, and I encounter him again today, the moment I lay eyes on him, I will remember everything from the past. That is taanton(the link of anger). Ordinarily people's sulking never goes away. Even renowned ascetics and monks sulk. If you were to provoke them and challenge their authority, they would not speak to you for weeks. This is taanto. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUSSO (ANNOYANCE)
AND KRODH (ANGER) Questioner : Dada what is the difference between annoyance and anger?
Dadashri : Anger is associated with ego. When annoyance and ego get together, they result in anger. When a father gets annoyed with his children, it is not called anger, because it is not associated with the ego. Anger binds paap (bad karma), but the annoyance of a father will bind
No man in this world has conquer anger. Anger has two parts. One part comes as discord and the other as restlessness. Discord is apparent to others and restlessness remains within, unseen by others. It is the discord part of anger that one has overcome when one claims to have conquered anger. However, in fact, as one part is suppressed, the other part increases. When a person claims to have conquered anger, his pride increases. In reality, anger has not been completely conquered, but perhaps one can say
