My dear Friends,
Experts in medicine and Psychology time and again warn us not to get angry. Anger is called by them as negative and it affects our nerve system, they say.
Several Indian saints and sages talked much about the evils of anger and spiritulasim pertains to all religions teaches us the ways and means to control it.
However, friends, anger is one of the essential emotions required in our three arenas of life viz., domestic, social and official. By calling anger as destructive, we tend to set aside the constructive aspects of anger. Fire cannot be banished as bad as it burns everything. Knives cannot be banned altogether as they are used for metering. Everything depends on how and why we use it. Motive is important than the results. Good and bad do exist together in this world. By using the sixth sense, one should handle everything wisely. Even poison is used as panacea. So is the case with anger!!
A Sadhu who is known for his patience and endurance became wild when one of his disciples did some mistake. An onlooker became shellshocked at this unusual behaviour of this Sadhu and asked "Swamiji, how come you can shout like this out of anger for you must set an example for us to follow". Sadhu just smiled and replied "Beta, Anger is a fire, is not fire required to burn down the rubbish? I burnt down what is not wanted in my disciple's mind".
Listen to this another story told by Swamy Dhayanand Saraswathi. A man came to him and told "Swamiji I have given up the bad habit of getting angry". Swamiji smiled and relplied "Is it so, good but that is not possible". " No swamiji, you ask my people. I spent nearly one month in solitude to tame my mind that I can avoid anger creeping in". Again Swamiji repeated " No its not possible". The man persisted "No Swamiji, you can take it from me, I can remain cool and composed even when provocated". To this Swamiji replied in a stern voice "Listen, you cannot avoid anger go away from here now, don't tell me what is not possible to you". "You bloody old nut, in spite of my telling you about my practice of not getting angry, you belittle my efforts and afront me in front of all these ladies" yelled back the man. Swamiji simply smiled - so were the devotees around Him. The man became embarrassed. He didn't know that he became angry at all!!. Swamiji told him putting his hand on the man's shoulder, "you see, anger is an accident and not an incident. Those who sense it in advance are wise and clever, those who realize that they are in anger and move away from the spot are intelligent and those who repent for what they did in anger later on are fools"
When we use anger as a weapon with complete awareness - that is there should be heat and not fire - we achieve many things. Especially those who are in managerial cadre handling human minds should definitely have this skill of using this weapon carefully. This twin-edged weapon can and should be used to guide and goad the erring employees, those who flout rules and regulations, who are in the habit of committing repeated mistakes and to establish discipline in the organisation.
This Anger-Weapon should be used with a fair motive and for a specific good purpose. We must see that no residual effect should be there in our mind. When it is used rightly there will never be any ill feeling and rancour. As told by Lord Krishna in Gita, use this weapon with vairaagya that is without ego or doership.
Those who get anger always are hated
Those who get anger unnecessarily are neglected and
Those who get anger with a reason are respected
All the best.
Ganesh Ramachandran
From India, Tiruppur
178Experts in medicine and Psychology time and again warn us not to get angry. Anger is called by them as negative and it affects our nerve system, they say.
Several Indian saints and sages talked much about the evils of anger and spiritulasim pertains to all religions teaches us the ways and means to control it.
However, friends, anger is one of the essential emotions required in our three arenas of life viz., domestic, social and official. By calling anger as destructive, we tend to set aside the constructive aspects of anger. Fire cannot be banished as bad as it burns everything. Knives cannot be banned altogether as they are used for metering. Everything depends on how and why we use it. Motive is important than the results. Good and bad do exist together in this world. By using the sixth sense, one should handle everything wisely. Even poison is used as panacea. So is the case with anger!!
A Sadhu who is known for his patience and endurance became wild when one of his disciples did some mistake. An onlooker became shellshocked at this unusual behaviour of this Sadhu and asked "Swamiji, how come you can shout like this out of anger for you must set an example for us to follow". Sadhu just smiled and replied "Beta, Anger is a fire, is not fire required to burn down the rubbish? I burnt down what is not wanted in my disciple's mind".
Listen to this another story told by Swamy Dhayanand Saraswathi. A man came to him and told "Swamiji I have given up the bad habit of getting angry". Swamiji smiled and relplied "Is it so, good but that is not possible". " No swamiji, you ask my people. I spent nearly one month in solitude to tame my mind that I can avoid anger creeping in". Again Swamiji repeated " No its not possible". The man persisted "No Swamiji, you can take it from me, I can remain cool and composed even when provocated". To this Swamiji replied in a stern voice "Listen, you cannot avoid anger go away from here now, don't tell me what is not possible to you". "You bloody old nut, in spite of my telling you about my practice of not getting angry, you belittle my efforts and afront me in front of all these ladies" yelled back the man. Swamiji simply smiled - so were the devotees around Him. The man became embarrassed. He didn't know that he became angry at all!!. Swamiji told him putting his hand on the man's shoulder, "you see, anger is an accident and not an incident. Those who sense it in advance are wise and clever, those who realize that they are in anger and move away from the spot are intelligent and those who repent for what they did in anger later on are fools"
When we use anger as a weapon with complete awareness - that is there should be heat and not fire - we achieve many things. Especially those who are in managerial cadre handling human minds should definitely have this skill of using this weapon carefully. This twin-edged weapon can and should be used to guide and goad the erring employees, those who flout rules and regulations, who are in the habit of committing repeated mistakes and to establish discipline in the organisation.
This Anger-Weapon should be used with a fair motive and for a specific good purpose. We must see that no residual effect should be there in our mind. When it is used rightly there will never be any ill feeling and rancour. As told by Lord Krishna in Gita, use this weapon with vairaagya that is without ego or doership.
Those who get anger always are hated
Those who get anger unnecessarily are neglected and
Those who get anger with a reason are respected
All the best.
Ganesh Ramachandran
From India, Tiruppur
good suggestions there.
i think we must use our anger against any mismanagement by mismanagement and misbehaviour by employees.
similarly, as citizens, we must use our anger as citizens by being aware and proactive citizens.
preeti
From United States, Ann Arbor
i think we must use our anger against any mismanagement by mismanagement and misbehaviour by employees.
similarly, as citizens, we must use our anger as citizens by being aware and proactive citizens.
preeti
From United States, Ann Arbor
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