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Recently, I got an opportunity to go for preaching sermons in the jail of Jodhpur city. I was sitting among prisoners. I asked one of the prisoners the reason of his imprisonment. He began weeping. I consoled him and asked to tell the about the offence he had committed. He said that due to his anger, he got an imprisonment for eleven years. I asked him how? Then he explained that he had a habit of drinking wine. His wife told him many times not to drink wine but all in vain. After all, it was decided that he would not drink wine at home. If he were compelled to drink, he would drink it outside the home. After sometime, his wife went to her paternal. He thought that now for about 10-15 days, his wife would not come back so he began drinking wine at home inviting to all his friends. One day when he was enjoying wine with his friends, suddenly appeared his wife. As soon as she came and saw the scene, she got furious and showed her anger in the presence of his friends. He told that he got angry and made a fierce blow of paperweight on her head and began bleeding. He then took her to hospital in a hesitation but on reaching to hospital, the doctors declared her dead. Consequently, he was imprisoned for eleven years for the charge of murdering his wife. He told me that he had been repenting over his angry temperament since that day why he got angry for a trivial thing.
There may be one plus one two in numbers in general counting but in the mathematical calculation it is always eleven. Hence the effect of anger acts as the later calculation. I too have got angry and seen its harmful results. You would also have seen harmful effects of your anger. We all want to deal in a profitable business. Anger has no profit in it. No builder, business man, officer, teacher, student, household person, a child, a young or an old man, no one can tell any profit of anger yet they all get angry. Why?
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