Tips To Control Your Anger

Tips To Control Your Anger

Anger is a sign of mental weakness, and ends in repentance or remorse. If you can control anger, you will have limit less energy in your reserve. How to control anger?

1. Be alert. Pray . Do more japa, chant Keep watch over your mind. Observe silence daily for an hour. Forget and forgive. Bear insult and injury .

2. See God in all. Submit to God's will Then you cannot get angry .

3. In the morning meditate on the virtue of patience. Manifest it during the day . Take a vow `I will practise endurance and kshama forgiveness, during the day'. forgiveness, during the day'.

4. Speak sweetly . Speak little.

5. Mix little. Have congenial company. Have satsanga. Read spiritual books.

6. Remember the lives of saints like Ekanath, the Avanti Brahmin of the llth Skandha of the Bhagavata.
You will derive inspiration. You will develop love and kshama. 7. Give up intoxicating substances, meat and tobacco. 8. Remember the Gita shlokas describing an ger as monster and gateway to hell. (3:37 & 16:21)

9. If you find it difficult to control anger leave the place at once. Take a long walk Drink cold water. Repeat `Om Santi' l0 times Do japa of your favourite mantra or count from 1 to 30. Anger will subside.

10. Stand as witness of anger. Be indiffer ent to it. Do not identify yourself with it. Iden tify yourself with the Atman. Fill the mind with ideas of love and joy .

11. Develop patience to a considerable ex tent. People lose their temper when they be come impatient. Allow the mind to dwell constantly on the opposite of anger, the virtue of patience. This is the pratipaksha bhavana method of Raja Yogins.

12. Do not give vent to anger. Control the body first. Have physical control. Practise this again and again. Be regular in your japa and meditation and kirtan. This will give you great inner spiritual strength.

13. Food has a great deal to do with irrita. bility. Take milk, fruits, Moong-ki-dal, curd, spinach, barley , groundnuts, butter milk.

Avoid food that makes you irritable.

14. Observe silence for two hours daily .
. Occasionally observe silence for a whole day .

See the difference.

15. Prana entwines the mind like a creeper.

Pranayama leads to control of mind. Pranayama , will put a break on the impulse of speech. It will give you abundant energy to check anger.

16. Do not argue much. Do not retort.

Speak sweetly always. Avoid abusive words. Measure your words. If a man abuses or insults you, keep quiet. Iden tify yourself with Atman. Atman is the same in all. It can never be hurt or insulted.
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17. A vedantin denies the body and mind as illusory sheaths. He does vichara, enquires, `who am i' and practises `neti-neti' `not this, not this'. `I am . not body'. `I am not mind'. He identifies himself , with Brahmn or Atman, the Eternal. The world . is unreal for him. He chants Aum, sings Aum . and does japa of Aum and meditates on Aum and derives soul-power and spiritual strength.

18. If you entertain Mithya Drishti, Dosha Drishti, if you look into the defects of anger and the benefits of patience, you will never become angry .

19. The combined method is more effective.
If one method fails, take recourse to the combined method. Do japa, pranayama. Some times do vichara ­ reflection or Self-inquiry .

Om Namah Shivay