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anger would immediately flare up. but a greedy person will never exhibit anger.
The Lord has said that people suffer because of their anger and pride. Pride breeds contempt and hatred. Anger will burn the one who becomes angry and also everyone around him. People try to come up with solutions to their kashaya by what God has said: 'One should not get angry', 'one should not have pride'. They start doing triyoga sadhana (spiritual practice of controlling the mind, body and speech). Through this sadhana, they control anger and pride to some extent but their intellect (buddhi) becomes sharper. Because the intellect becomes sharper, one becomes even more deceitful in trying to protect his greed. Anger and pride are guileless. Others too can point out these qualities in you, whereas greed and deceit are such that even the person who has them is not aware of their presence. Once they take hold, they never leave.
To protect their false pride people use anger. People live enslaved by these four kashays.
There are two kinds of anger-pride-attachment-greed : controllable and uncontrollable. For example, if you are angry with someone and you suppress your anger and pacify it from within, it is a controllable anger. If you can reach such a stage, your interactions in relative life will be wonderful.
The uncontrollable anger can never be suppressed. No matter how hard you try you cannot prevent it from exploding. This anger harms you and others around you.
However the tuber of deceit and greed are heavier and stronger than those of anger and pride. You cannot get rid of them easily. Why is greed considered the guiltiest one? Because it robs others. If one drains out all the water from a reservoir by opening all the water taps in his home, would others not be deprived of water?
Deceit The definition of deceit is: To not say things as they are. Deceit affects all three, the mind, the body and the speech. Women have more atoms of deceit and moha (fascination / attachment), and men have more of anger and pride. If a man attracts and pulls more atoms of deceit and moha, then his coming life will result in a female body and a greater pull of atoms of anger and pride will result in a male body.
Women use deceit because of their imaginary fear. This creates very dense veils of ignorance. And moha increases the veil of infatuation; moha will increase as deceit increases. Men have more pride. Pride increases awareness.
The Food Of Kashayas :
Anger, Pride, Attachment, Greed People do not realize that they feed their anger-pride
When does a greedy person become angry? In the final moment when the thing he has the most greed for is slipping away; where even his deceit proves unsuccessful, he resorts to anger.
From the moment he is born, the greedy person will never become free from the thread that perpetuates his greed. His awareness is constantly preoccupied by his greed. As far as a proud person is concerned, his pride wells up when he walks around outside of his home. Wherever he goes, he is under the influence of his false pride but if anyone were to insult him, he would get angry.
What impedes your path to liberation? It is anger, pride, attachment and greed. To protect their greedy tendencies, people use deceit - they tamper with their weighing scales to sell their customer short or they stretch the material when they measure.
