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Please remember, if a brother doesn't speak to his brother, keeps jealousy and ill will against him, he is not authorized to ask for a pardoning in a society in any religious ceremony. If anger has occupied any kind of existence in your life, try instantly to get over it. Anger like a line drown in water is pardonable but the rest two kinds of anger will make your life restless and tensious.
Now we will discuss the reasons that cause anger. The main are as under:
Anger occurs at the mistakes of others, not at our own mistakes. Suppose you are shaving and you got a cut on your face with a blade, at whom will you get angry? At no one, yes, if someone spits on you, you will get furious but if our own spit falls on us, then? We don't consider our own mistakes but redden our face at others' mistakes.
My great gentleman, keep in mind, if the matter is solved with a needle, do not use a sword for it. The matter that can be solved with a little seriousness, do not use abusing words because the anger of present includes the past matters of anger and increases at high magnitude.
The second reason of anger is that anger appears at the weak. We see a father getting angry with his children, an owner with his servant and children at their toys. Those who can not get angry with other, are seen getting angry with helpless and tongue less animals. Sometime such people throw a stone at a dog or beat it or a goat or any other animal out of anger. Anger always flows at down wards but love and affection flow at upwards.
It is said a person was going on a road. He was thrown a stone by someone from somewhere. He got angry. He picked up the stone and went towards the direction of the house from which the stone was thrown and decided to challenge the persons in the house. But on going there, he
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