Thus Spake the Divine - Are We Entitled To Express Anger Against Others?

Thus Spake the Divine

Are We Entitled To Express Anger Against Others?

We get angry on many occasions and specifically on two occasions. These occasions are when someone commits any mistake and if anybody blames or scolds us. If we think deep, we will realise that both these occasions do not entitle us any worth or merit (Yogyatha) to become angry.

Are we so perfect that we don’t commit any mistakes? Are we so pure that we have not committed any sinful actions? May be, we did not commit the mistake by sin or action. We may have done so in our thought. We commit many inappropriate acts and blunders. May be, the other person has committed such things more than we have. We may have done lesser as we have matured and understand the repercussions of such deeds while the other person has not reached our stage of maturity.

While it is tough for us to check ourselves from committing any mistakes, the other person may find it even more difficult to control himself from committing sins and mistakes. While we may be in good companionship, it is also not virtuous to hate people who continue in bad company and commit blunders and sins. The best we can do is to pray to God Almighty that the other person leaves his sinful acts and turns good. If at all we have gained some mental power out of our close association with God, we should use that power only to protect the other person from his bad deeds.

We can never change the attitude of the other person through anger. That will only aggravate his hatred and animosity against us. We can only try to change him through our love and kindness towards him. Nobody is born to become bad. It is only his mind and circumstances that force him to be so. May be we did not have opportunities to get into such circumstances and thus protected ourselves from committing sins. We should only pray and thank God for having averted such circumstances for us, which would otherwise have forced us to commit similar sins.

If someone hates us, we don’t have to be angry with him. Heart to heart, we know how much we deserve that hatred from the other person. Sometimes, a person may be upset at us for something we are not actually responsible for. But our inner heart knows we have committed blunders that were even worse. Thus, we are all in a state that every day we must regret and repent for our mistakes and blunders, and pray to Goddess that She purifies us.

Someone may question, “If we are totally flawless, if we have not committed any mistakes at all, then can we get angry against other people’s mistakes?” If we indeed are such, we will only be totally absorbed by love and compassion; we will become an embodiment of love. Then, we will never express any feeling other than love and compassion to even sinners. If we have committed mistakes, then we have no moral merit in getting angry with others. If we are so blessed that we have not committed any mistakes, then it is because of the mercy and grace of the Goddess. And, in that case, whom do we praise and whom do we blame? Howsoever we look at it, anger should be totally avoided.

As Lord Krishna states in Gita, it is the lust and anger that plunge us into sinful acts. The opponent never bothers about your anger against him. It is only we who spoil both our mind and body by way of our own anger. Being kind towards fellow-beings is within the innate nature of human beings. Only that brings delightfulness. Love is bliss to us as well as to our opponents. Love is God. All of us should triumph to become absorbed with love and become Gods.

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