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Anger
Anger
internal destruction. This is the only difference,
RESULTS CHANGE WHEN CAUSES CHANGE
will get angry with that person as many times as you were meant to. But what must you do from now on? You should not allow yourself to become prejudiced towards the person with whom you get angry. You should change your opinion of him. It is because of the account of your prarabdh (fate, past karma, destiny) that this person is behaving in this manner with you. Whatever that person does, it is because of the result of your own karma. This is how you should change your opinion about him. If you change your opinion about him, you will no longer get angry with him. The effect from the past will remain for some time. That effect will come, give its results and then it will stop altogether.
Someone asked me why for countless lives man has tried to get rid of anger and has not succeeded. I told him that perhaps he did not have the right solution. He told me that the solutions given in the scriptures, which he himself was following, did not eradicate his anger. I told him that the solution has to be exact and correct. Trying to find a solution to stop the anger is foolishness because anger is a result. It is just like the results of an examination. The result cannot be changed. It is the cause which one needs to change.
People try to suppress anger, but it is futile, and in doing so one may even become insane. Besides anger is not something that one can get rid of. A person said to me that he had been successful in suppressing his anger to some degree, but you cannot say that it is suppressed, while it still remains inside. He then asked me for a solution and I told him to make a note of those circumstances and people that made him angry and those that did not. He was to also make a note of when he did not get angry even though the other person did something wrong. There are circumstances when we get angry even though the other person does the right thing. What is the reason behind this?
Questioner: Is it because a granthi (a knot of opinion) has formed in our mind for that person?
Dadashri : Yes, a complex of opinions has been formed. What should one do to disentangle from that complex? The examination has already been given. You
This is a very subtle point, which people have failed to discover. There is a solution for everything. The world can never be without solution. People are trying to destroy only the results. The solution against anger, pride, attachment and greed is that one should destroy their causes and leave the results alone. If one does not have the awareness in the first place, then how will he find the solution?
Questioner : Please explain again how to destroy the causes.
Dadashri : If I get angry with this gentleman, I decide that my anger towards him is the result of me seeing faults in him previously. Now whatever wrong he does, as long as I do not let it affect my mind, the anger towards him will subside. Some of it will still come as a result of the past, but no more will come in the future.
Questioner: Does anger stem from looking at others' faults?
