Burst Three (For the Young):
Anger
- Lack of mature understanding of life makes us live in anger.
- We live under the burden of fears and regrets.
- False values underlie our agitations. We value some externalities like looks, wealth or fame; we adore success and popularity.
- There is a powerful psychological urge to ‘become’ like somebody.
- There is a feeling of time running out and we have ‘not become’ yet.
- There is a shallow idea of ‘what we should have been’.
- Comparison with him or her makes us believe that our life has been terribly inadequate. Anger then boils in us.
- Amidst all these, we fail to pay attention to wonderful opportunities that life brings to us daily.
- Unfulfilled desires, agitations and opportunities lost become a vicious circle where we tend to sink deeper into low self-worth.
- Exercising attention to every moment restores the quietude in us, opening doors to firsthand understanding of our living.
- When we ‘see’ the false beliefs (or invalid equations) that our mind was clinging to, they drop away. The root causes of anger then melt away.
Swami Chidananda
Monday, February 3, 2003