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your soul. You must destroy that influence. Therefore, you must realise and visualize the losses and calamities that can result from your anger. You must have a correct knowledge of the things that cause you intense anger. If you know those causes, you can save yourself from your anger. Those who get furious off and on; who become angry. even at ordinary contrarieties and who get furious even in ordinary situations know what loss violent anger causes. Anger causes loss to man, whatever may be the sphere of his existence. Violent anger causes financial loss, domestic loss, loss to the mind and to the body.
Recently, I heard of an incident that took place in this city. A certain young man had become an addict to gambling. His father reprimanded him one day. The boy became angry at this. He went away from home and lay across the railway track and he was cut to pieces by a rushing train. In the same manner, impelled by anger, women also commit suicide. They drink poison and die.
Bhagwan Umaswathi says this while describing the harm and losses that anger causes to men :
"test: ofalust: FITOTETTF: #8:1
STIQUET : 77: DE: Erfagrar" ! 1. Anger causes heat and anguish to the mind of man. That means, if a man gets violently angry, it burns his mind. It burns his intellect and it may perish on account of anguish. This is the loss that anger causes to the mind.
2. If you get angry, you cause agitation in the minds of those around you. The minds of all become agitated. The atmosphere in the home becomes spoilt. This is the loss that violent anger causes to the family.
3. Anger brings about enmity with other jivas. Enmity causes anguish to the soul through many janmas. This is the otherworldly loss that anger brings about.
4. The man who is blinded by violent anger cannot attain spiritual elevation. After his death, he will fall into spiritual
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