When an object has charmed one to a point of deep attachment, and when fear of its loss has started coming up in waves to disturb the individual, then, such an individual’s attitude towards those that come between him and the object of his attachment is called ‘anger.’
Anger is thus nothing but a feeling that rises in us towards an obstacle between ourselves and the object of our attachment; the anger thus arising within is directly proporotional to the amount of fear one entertains on the score of the obstacle holding one back from winning one’s object of love.
Anger, therefore, is only our attachment for an object, expressed at an obstacle that has come between us and the object of our desire.
(Source: Holy Gita – Ready reference – Published by Chinmaya International Foundation)
6 comments:
While this may be true, I don't remember reading it in Bhagavad Gita. I do remember Lord Krishna telling Arjuna that anger causes one lose one's intelligence, however.
One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires. (2.62)
Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down (from the right path) when reasoning is destroyed. (2.63)
Kama, the passionate desire for all sensual and material pleasures, becomes anger if it is unfulfilled. As the fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror by dust, and as an embryo by the amnion, similarly the Self-knowledge gets obscured by Kama. (3.38)
Thanks for citing the verses.
Does the Bhagavad Gita tell us how to deal with anger? How to diffuse it?
yes, kind of Do not get attached!!!!
In reality that never happens. we are human beings. Just look atthe story of Mahabharata. any one with no trace of Anger ? even Krishna was mad.
what are not consider not good days ex- amavasa according to Hindu calendar.
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