How to control anger by Bhagavad Gita.
Hello my dear friends , As I told you Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a manual for life . And we know anger is a very crucial part of our life . It is better when we control anger rather than anger control us. So let’s learn how to control anger form Srimad Bhagavad Gita.
My dear brothers and sisters, Anger is one of the biggest problem of our life . And this problem existed 5000 years ago too. So , lord krishna had to tell methods to control anger. In Bhagavad Gita Anger is a door to hell. Let’s learn what is anger? Anger is just a way of showing emotions and our thoughts to other people. But this emotions is turning into problem and if you have clicked this article then Congratulations you have completed half of your journey. Ok so let’s start this with a small story.
Once upon a time one Saint was infront of a beautiful lake. The saint made plan of doing meditation in the center of the lake. He went to the center of lake with the help of a boat. He reached to the center of lake and started doing meditation. He was completely lost in his meditation. And suddenly another boat hit his boat from behind. This process was repeated many times. The saint became very angry and looked behind who was that idiot that is disturbing him. The saint saw it was a empty boat. Because of wind it came in the middle . Then the saint knew that anger is inside him. It only needs a spark to light that anger.
My dear friends, we must admit that anger is inside us and we are responsible for anger. Ok let’s go to another story.
Once there was a shopkeeper and he was very disrespectful in his village. People said ,“ He is a fraud , he fools people and earn money from it”. And one student came to know this and he went to that shop. The student bought some goods from the shop and paid his bills. Then the shopkeeper said,“ Let’s play a small game and if you won that game I will give you these goods for free and if I won you will have to give me double money”. The student replied ok. Then the shopkeeper said,“ I will tell you a small incident and If you tell me how is this possible then you will win and if you tell me this is impossible then I will win.” The student agreed his terms . The shopkeeper said,“ I locked my goat in a box and when I came in the morning, I observed a strange thing. The goat had given birth to 100 babies. Now tell me how is this possible” ? According to the agreement , if the student said that this is not possible he will lose this game . And if this is possible how? The student replied,“ This is absolutely possible. Boss that is your goat ,you locked it in the cage and in the morning it gave birth to 100 kid. You only saw this incident. No one has seen it. And the whole villagers know that you are don’t lie. So this is possible because you saw it.” After hear auch words the shopkeeper was smiling a lot and gave him his goods for free. And according to agreement he returned his goods and money. After recieving money the student again said,“ Brother I will also tell you a small incident now. And if you believe in that and tell me the reason ,I will return this goods and money to you. And if you cannot tell it is impossible then you have to give me other goods for free . The shopkeeper said, “ok ”. The student said,“ In this village , I have a big farm and there are many snakes in the farm . Those snakes used to kill eagles flying in the sky. The shopkeeper said ,“ This is possible you won’t lie .” The student continued his story and said,“ Yesterday when I was in the farm , I saw a 500 kg pumpkin and I bought a chainsaw to cut it. And when I cut it , many butterflies came out and started shouting this shopkeeper is a thief. He has looted many people.”
After hearing such words the shopkeeper was furious and said,“ This is not possible”. This time also the shopkeeper lost this game. My dear friends the truth is when we hear good things about us ,we become happy and when we hear bad thing about us , we become very angry. I mean when we hear bad comment and have difficult situations ,we become angry.
This same thing is taught in Srimad Bhagavad Gita in chapter 2 verse38 that happiness and sadness should be observed from same point. Actually a angry person can be a good person but he can’t control his emotions : anger. If someone praise you don’t get high and if someone bullies you don’t become angry . Anger is temporary but your actions are permanent . So don’t take decisions in anger or take any sort of revenge. Eye for an eye can make this whole world blind. The first lesson is , Judge your happiness and sadness in same and equal way . Don’t be disappointed in bad situation and be overwhelmed in good condition.
Now let’s go to another story , Once upon a time there was a billionaire. He went to a saint and said ,“ My health condition is very bad. I always have headache, I can’t digest my food and I always feel sleepy. I don’t know the solution of this problem. My wife is a dumbest girl . She is very lazy . And all my servants are thief . They don’t do their job in right time. My brother doesn’t understands me . He do whatever he likes to do. That’s why I am angry all the time .Please tell me any solution”. The saint said,“ Show me your hand ”. The man showed his hand. The saint said,“ I am very sorry ,I can’t do anything.” The man shouted ,“ Please tell me anything, I don’t know what to do”. After this the saint said you have only 10 days to live. Listening this the billionaire got shocked . The billionaire went his home back. On 9 th day he returned to the saint and started explaining his experience of these days. The saint asked,“ Were you angry in these 9 days ”? The billionaire answered ,“No”.
This is the main thing about life. When we know our end is coming,we become productive and don’t complain anything. We forget negative emotions like anger and fulfill our duty. The same thing is said in Bhagavad Gita. The one who is born will surely die. And Steve jobs has also said , Remembering that one will die soon is the most important tool that has helped him to take big choices in life. Because all the external expectations,all pride , all fear of embarrassment or anger will fall in front of death.
My dear friends when we remember these things ,we sink into the emotions of anger. Let’s revise the important points. We should always observed and react all emotions in one way. A great person is not effected or polluted by these emotions. And another is anger and all types of emotions are within us . So we shouldn’t blame others and work to solve it.
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