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Anger
exercise control, because everything is just like the hill.
If a car is coming head-on at you, will you get angry or
will you move out of the way? Would you crash with the car?
You are aware of the consequences. But when you get angry,
the internal destruction is much greater. The external destruction
is obvious to you, but you are not aware of the internal
destruction. This is the only difference.
RESULTS CHANGE WHEN CAUSES CHANGE
Someone asked me why, for countless lives, man has
tried to get rid of anger and has not succeeded. I told him that
perhaps he did not have the right solution. He told me that the
solutions given in the scriptures, which he himself was following,
did not eradicate his anger. I told him that the solution has to
be exact and correct. Trying to find a solution to stop the anger
is foolishness because anger is a result. It is just like the results
of an examination. The result cannot be changed. It is the cause
which one needs to change.
People try to suppress anger, but it is futile, and in doing
so one may even become insane. Besides, anger is not something
that one can rid himself of. A person told me that he has been
successful in suppressing his anger to some degree. However,
you cannot say that it is suppressed, while it still remains inside.
When he asked me for a solution, I told him to make note of
those circumstances and those people that made him angry and
to make note of those that did not. He also was to make note
of when he did not get angry even though the other person did
something wrong. There are circumstances in which we get
angry even though the other person does the right thing. What
is the reason behind this?
Questioner : Is it because a granthi (a knot of opinion)
has formed in our mind for that person?
Dadashri : Yes, numerous opinions have been formed.