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Angry - Durguna Angry - harmful to us as well as others
The feelings generated within us which comes out as a negative reaction, which is harmful to us as well as others. This feeling of insult, belittled, helplessness, failure or whatever you call it generates an instantaneous reaction in us which has negative effect. This annoyance is called Anger or Angry. This is the second durguna amongst the six durgunas called Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Matha & Matsarya.
While angry, you get heat traveling through your nerves and feel blood boiling. You lose your calm posture and shout at the peak of your voice and show quick, brisk and rough body languages. Your eyes become red and you become trembling some times. The words you speak get broken or you stammer. You repeat a word or sentence many times to stress your point. Your intellectual faculty gets crumbled and you lose your faculty of discrimination. Your mental stability is lost and physically you are affected.
It is a negative guna because it is causing all sorts of disorders in you and even makes you mad temporarily, particularly in the eyes of onlookers. We have seen that generation of heat at physical, mental and intellectual levels, loss of discrimination/wisdom, feeling of enmity to others, character degeneration are the characteristics of Angry. Angry has no permanent existence, nor has it any source. It is only the effect of our own misunderstanding or non-understanding the real situation or event and a feeling of insecurity for ourselves. It is, thus, a negative current at mental level as it is associated with thoughts and thoughts are the products of mind, which is nothing but a continuous flow of thoughts leaving some imprints in our intellect.
We know that it is not healthy to entertain anger. But still, we become slave to it many a times in our life. If allowed to overcome us, we will become a mad person at the end, since it has the power to cripple your intellectual power and overpower your mind and make you an animal-man. It will slowly eat your health by making you a man of blood pressure, diabetic, heart ailment, nervous disorders, impatient in nature and un-natural in behaviour and finally unaccepted by society. These are the after-effects if you allow the anger to overpower you. Therefore, what is the remedy? Avoid becoming angry at any cost and at any situation. How is it possible and what is the way to avoid Angry?
Analyse each situation and try to correctly understand the reality of the situation. Avoid misunderstanding. Guard against ill feelings against others and yourselves. Never allow feeling of insecurity to conquer you. Have faith in a power higher than you for which you must learn the scriptural proclamations, which are true. Practice daily discipline through some sadhana or yoga at physical and mental levels, prescribed by our scriptures. Develop a discipline for your own life-style to be followed daily. Make it your ritual and do it at any cost. Learn to calm the mind (or make it take rest) by giving it a direction as a daily routine like keeping silence at physical, mental and intellectual levels (I mean concentration, meditation, contemplation on higher ideals etc.). The Mind is the cause of all thoughts and feelings and it is better to go to the root and solve the problem. Once you discipline the mind, have a high ideal in life and have a firm determination to follow your own discipline as stated above, the mind is well regulated and will not entertain negative thoughts and will discard such thoughts when they arise. The above is a generalized tonic, having the strength of a ‘preventive medicine’. It helps you, in course of time by practice, to overcome anger permanently and have a peaceful life.
Concentrate on a role model, a picture of your liking, a God’s image or chant a Mantra by counting the number of repetitions, thus forcing your mind to concentrate on the new objective. This is what is prescribed by our ritualistic practices and is called Mantra Chanting, Contemplation on an objective exclusive of all other things, Meditation, Concentration, etc. etc. But, please beware. This is only temporary. Once the anger goes, the mind will wander again and entertain angry and other feelings again and again. You will have to follow this practice every time you become angry. This is a curative mechanism.
You have to choose the best method suited to your nature and character. One thing is certain, you will have to guard against this negative feeling of Angry and win over it for ever to lead a peaceful and long life.
In conclusion, let me expand the alphabets in this word as follows:
Anti-Natural Guna Revenge You = Angry
Now it is for you to conclude whether you should entertain and nourish Angry or win over it – temporarily or permanently. I do not want to condemn Angry. It is for each of you to own it or disown it. May you have the wisdom to choose the right course of action as far as Angry is concerned
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The feelings generated within us which comes out as a negative reaction, which is harmful to us as well as others. This feeling of insult, belittled, helplessness, failure or whatever you call it generates an instantaneous reaction in us which has negative effect. This annoyance is called Anger or Angry. This is the second durguna amongst the six durgunas called Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Matha & Matsarya.
While angry, you get heat traveling through your nerves and feel blood boiling. You lose your calm posture and shout at the peak of your voice and show quick, brisk and rough body languages. Your eyes become red and you become trembling some times. The words you speak get broken or you stammer. You repeat a word or sentence many times to stress your point. Your intellectual faculty gets crumbled and you lose your faculty of discrimination. Your mental stability is lost and physically you are affected.
It is a negative guna because it is causing all sorts of disorders in you and even makes you mad temporarily, particularly in the eyes of onlookers. We have seen that generation of heat at physical, mental and intellectual levels, loss of discrimination/wisdom, feeling of enmity to others, character degeneration are the characteristics of Angry. Angry has no permanent existence, nor has it any source. It is only the effect of our own misunderstanding or non-understanding the real situation or event and a feeling of insecurity for ourselves. It is, thus, a negative current at mental level as it is associated with thoughts and thoughts are the products of mind, which is nothing but a continuous flow of thoughts leaving some imprints in our intellect.
We know that it is not healthy to entertain anger. But still, we become slave to it many a times in our life. If allowed to overcome us, we will become a mad person at the end, since it has the power to cripple your intellectual power and overpower your mind and make you an animal-man. It will slowly eat your health by making you a man of blood pressure, diabetic, heart ailment, nervous disorders, impatient in nature and un-natural in behaviour and finally unaccepted by society. These are the after-effects if you allow the anger to overpower you. Therefore, what is the remedy? Avoid becoming angry at any cost and at any situation. How is it possible and what is the way to avoid Angry?
Analyse each situation and try to correctly understand the reality of the situation. Avoid misunderstanding. Guard against ill feelings against others and yourselves. Never allow feeling of insecurity to conquer you. Have faith in a power higher than you for which you must learn the scriptural proclamations, which are true. Practice daily discipline through some sadhana or yoga at physical and mental levels, prescribed by our scriptures. Develop a discipline for your own life-style to be followed daily. Make it your ritual and do it at any cost. Learn to calm the mind (or make it take rest) by giving it a direction as a daily routine like keeping silence at physical, mental and intellectual levels (I mean concentration, meditation, contemplation on higher ideals etc.). The Mind is the cause of all thoughts and feelings and it is better to go to the root and solve the problem. Once you discipline the mind, have a high ideal in life and have a firm determination to follow your own discipline as stated above, the mind is well regulated and will not entertain negative thoughts and will discard such thoughts when they arise. The above is a generalized tonic, having the strength of a ‘preventive medicine’. It helps you, in course of time by practice, to overcome anger permanently and have a peaceful life.
Concentrate on a role model, a picture of your liking, a God’s image or chant a Mantra by counting the number of repetitions, thus forcing your mind to concentrate on the new objective. This is what is prescribed by our ritualistic practices and is called Mantra Chanting, Contemplation on an objective exclusive of all other things, Meditation, Concentration, etc. etc. But, please beware. This is only temporary. Once the anger goes, the mind will wander again and entertain angry and other feelings again and again. You will have to follow this practice every time you become angry. This is a curative mechanism.
You have to choose the best method suited to your nature and character. One thing is certain, you will have to guard against this negative feeling of Angry and win over it for ever to lead a peaceful and long life.
In conclusion, let me expand the alphabets in this word as follows:
Anti-Natural Guna Revenge You = Angry
Now it is for you to conclude whether you should entertain and nourish Angry or win over it – temporarily or permanently. I do not want to condemn Angry. It is for each of you to own it or disown it. May you have the wisdom to choose the right course of action as far as Angry is concerned
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