Message #18001

[Jitendra Hydonus]

There are very few people who can use righteous anger effectively. Usually their actions serve to cause a forest fire behind them and to destroy relationships and friendships. Anger is perceived as someone out of control and as a temper tantrum because someone's ego has somehow been insulted and they seek some kind of revenge in the aftermath. If there is a rational for such behavior it is totally lost in the out-of-control reactions that have arose from anger.

More then likely anger is a sign of not getting your own way-for most people. Anger causes communication to end. Anger causes more misunderstandings. Anger-as Sri Yukteswar has described- arises out of thwarted desire. Quite often anger is recognized by others as means of destroying the reputation and efforts of others because of not having things done according to the angered persons willful and misdirected desires.

When anger is directed at a spiritually sensitive person it is like being used as a lightning rod for the other persons anger. This is very destructive to spiritual growth. It is best to distance ourselves temporarily or permanently from people who do not or will not recognize their own anger.

The only persons that really could possibly use anger correctly are Masters and they do not generally do so. The reason being it sets a bad example and the only reason that it possibly can be used is because ultimately a Master is above the laws set down by God and can go beyond those laws if needed but rarely do they.

So far, in my life, i have never seen an example of anger having any good results, but rather, shows a lack of spiritual understanding and causes destruction to beautiful and long worked on relationships.