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THE WAY OF LIFE
getting angry. When in your worldly life, in carrying out your endeavours to acquire wealth and to satisfy your desires, you have to get angry, then you must use anger cautiously to attain your objectives. You should not use it to an extent beyond necessity. You must be cautious about this point.
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When surgeons have to operate upon ailing patients, they should be extremely cautious. They have to cut the stomach if necessary, but if they have to cut one inch they do not cut one and a half inches. They cut precisely at that spot where they have to cut. After cutting that part and after removing the harmful part, they soon stitch up the cut because their aim is to cure the patient of his ailment. In the same manner, if your objective is to rectify some faults in others, and if you cannot achieve your objective of rectifying them by means of patience or persuasion, and if you feel that anger is necessary, you may get angry with them but you must get angry to the extent that is absolutely necessary. Not beyond that. You must have an estimate of your necessity.
Using anger as a means is one thing but becoming furious is another. If you have to get angry, you may get angry with people, but you should not incur any loss from it. If you get furious, you will certainly incur a loss. Excessive anger is a sign of cowardice in men. Limited anger is a sign of sense and discretion. If a man gets angry for the good of others or his own good, he must bear in mind, when he should get angry; how long he should be angry; with whom he should be angry; and what should be the extent of his anger. He must also know how to remedy the harmful effects of his anger. He must know how to remove the contrary effects, that his anger may bring about.
THE RESULT OF ANGER IS AN OCEAN OF SORROW.
If you have to master the art of getting angry thus and using it as a means you must know thoroughly this truth, "Anger is my inner enemy". After knowing this well, you must try to free yourself from the power of anger because for countless janmas your soul has been surrounded by these enemies. A very strong influence of these inner enemies like anger has enveloped
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