28 Anger
Out of these four, anger, pride, attachment and greed, a person may favor one over the others and will therefore strengthen it by siding with it.
OVERT KARMA: SUBTLE KARMA
I will explain to you what overt( sthool) karma is. Do you ever become angry even though you do not want to be angry?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: You experience the consequences of your anger right away. People will say that you are foul tempered. Someone may even slap you, which means that you will suffer the consequences through being disgraced in some way or another. Anger is sthool karma. When you get angry, if you have the internal bhaav that anger is necessary, then this bhaav will be your account of anger for your next life. If however, your bhaav today is that you should not get angry and you have made a decision that you do not want any part of anger, even though it still occurs, you will not have bound anger for the next life. You will be punished for the anger, which occurs as sthool karma in this life, but even then it will not bind you in the next life. This is because in the subtle( sookshma) karma your resolve( nischaya) is not to get angry.
On the other hand, if a person does not get angry with anyone, but has the belief that one should use anger to sort people out, then in his next life he will be a very angry man. Therefore, the external anger represents sthool karma and the internal bhaav is the sookshma karma. Sthool karma do not bind new karma. They represent an effect. That is why I have presented this science to you in a different light. Until now, people have been led to believe that karmas are bound through sthool karma, and that is why they live in fear.