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unwind his attachment by saying "She is not mine...she is not mine...', with such fervor that he returned to me in a fortnight and fell at my feet with tears of joy telling me that I had saved him by showing him how to free himself from his attachment. By listening to this story, many others have become free from their attachments also.
Anger Nobody in the world can conquer anger. There are two forms of anger : visible anger (kadhapo) and invisible anger (ajampo). The anger people overcome is the visible anger. By suppressing the visible anger, the invisible anger increases. When people claim they have conquered their anger, their false pride increases. In reality anger can never be completely conquered. It is the visible anger that is seemingly controlled. Anger is like fire. It burns itself and also others around it.
When a person does not get angry in a situation that provokes anger, it is considered shubha charitra (good conduct), with such a conduct one's worldly life will improve. However, liberation is only attainable through shuddha charitra, the state of the Self.
Anger is nothing but highly volatile atoms. It is like gunpowder in a container, which when ignited, will explode releasing heat and flames and when all the powder has been used up, it subsides naturally. Anger is volatile atoms, which explode as dictated by the laws of vyavasthit and when they do, they burn from all sides. Volatility is not considered anger; anger is the lingering bitterness aroused from the outburst. It is considered anger when one burns from within. When a person burns from within, he continues to feel the heat and others around him too will feel the effect of that heat. This anger visible or invisible will continue to torment one, but in both these types of anger, there is a lingering effect. Volatility is different altogether.
It can only be called anger when there is a lingering effect with that anger. For example, an angry exchange between a husband and wife in the night keeps them both awake all night and in the morning when the wife serves breakfast, she angrily shoves the teacup in front of her husband. He immediately understands that the anger from the night is still lingering. This is anger and the effect can linger for any length of time; sometimes it can linger for a lifetime. A father and son will become estranged from each other forever because of this. The lingering effect of anger can be read on one's face.
Greed Of all the kashayas, anger-pride-attachment-greed, the lingering effect of greed is the heaviest and the most difficult to get rid of. Greed means to harbor desire. A greedy person will manage to smile even if insulted. A Gnani too will smile if insulted, but when a greedy person smiles; he smiles while making his tuber of greed even larger.
A greedy businessman is not fazed in the least when a customer comes to him accusing him of cheating his son for fifty cents. He would sit there smiling, unperturbed. Passers by look on and see the cool and calm demeanor of the businessman and a very vocal and angry customer. They think the customer has gone mad and ask him to leave without making a scene. They are convinced that such a well-respected businessman would never cheat a child. While all this is going on, the businessman is smiling to himself. Why does he do that? It is because from within his greed tells him that the foolish customer will leave after creating a scene, but he has nothing to lose because he already made his fifty cents. On the outside, a greedy person can look just like a Gnani.
On the other hand, a man who has the kashaya of pride would not laugh if someone were to get angry with him. His
