Jailer

Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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complacent. If this bad, intense, explosive and often destructive habit refuses to leave you, start punishing yourself for it, for example, fast without food and water the next day or seek forgiveness from the person you were angry with by bowing down to him. Start fining yourself 1,00,000 rupees each time you get angry. Do whatever you need to, but decide to give it up at any cost. Nature will tell people who do not forsake the habit of displaying anger, that even she is helpless in giving up the habit of punishing them.
One is deceitful and hypocritical with everyone on every occasion. There is never simple-heartedness or frankness, not with family nor friends. Even the wife, parents or Gurus are not spared. There is politics everywhere. One has practised deceit, hypocrisy for most of one's life. Is it not high-time that one thinks of desisting from it?
To speak bitter, hurtful words, to criticize, to harass either the brother, a colleague, the mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law, the sister-in-law at every step, to torture someone by taking advantage of his/her weakness thinking that person to be meek and in no condition to retaliate, to feel satisfaction and inner pleasure by watching him/her suffer mental agony, to feel elated at having an authority over others and to intimidate them - all of the above are serious crimes which we commit daily. We need to ask ourselves whether we are ready and willing to abandon them.
It is easy to keep committing crimes, not want to limit them, and want only to limit punishment to oneself.
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