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anger would immediately flare up, but a greedy person will
never exhibit anger.
The Lord has said that people suffer because of their
anger and pride. Pride breeds contempt and hatred. Anger will
burn the one who becomes angry and also everyone around
him. People try to come up with solutions to their kashaya by
what God has said : ‘One should not get angry’, ‘one should
not have pride’. They start doing triyoga sadhana (spiritual
practice of controlling the mind, body and speech). Through this
sadhana, they control anger and pride to some extent but their
intellect (buddhi) becomes sharper. Because the intellect becomes
sharper, one becomes even more deceitful in trying to protect
his greed. Anger and pride are guileless. Others too can point
out these qualities in you, whereas greed and deceit are such
that even the person who has them is not aware of their presence.
Once they take hold, they never leave.
When does a greedy person become angry? In the final
moment when the thing he has the most greed for is slipping
away; where even his deceit proves unsuccessful, he resorts to
anger.
From the moment he is born, the greedy person will
never become free from the thread that perpetuates his greed.
His awareness is constantly preoccupied by his greed. As far as
a proud person is concerned, his pride wells up when he walks
around outside of his home. Wherever he goes, he is under the
influence of his false pride but if anyone were to insult him, he
would get angry.
What impedes your path to liberation? It is anger, pride,
attachment and greed. To protect their greedy tendencies, people
use deceit – they tamper with their weighing scales to sell their
customer short or they stretch the material when they measure.