We all get angry to some degree over things from time to time, so it's something everyone has to deal with.
This request for help about it was posted in my public quest book on connect, so I feel sure the devotee who posted it wouldn't mind if I put it here, along with my reply, since it's public anyway.
Tigers and their cubs, cats and their kittens....... Us in the hands of Krishna.
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Hare Krishna!
Hw is ur devotional service goin on , Mataji?
Nw from past 2 to 3months i am not able to control my anger. Its going beyond my control and i don't no what do. I make up my mind everyday to control myself but its in vein. I am hurting my family and hurting my self also. Please guide me
ABHISHEK
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Dear Abhishek,
Anger comes from attachment. When you don't really understand, realize, that Krishna is in control of everything, then you get attached to things, and when they aren't the way you want them to be, you get angry.
I don't get angry because I understand that "not a blade of grass moves without the will of the Supreme".
So, nothing can make you angry when you see that. Well, we might feel some emotion, that is only natural as long as you are not a pure devotee, you might become affected a little, but as far as anger that is "out of control" you only need to realize that Krishna is directing all things. Every single thing. He is in charge, He is very very powerful and things are always going according to His plans.
Try to read some of the sections of scripture that relate to this. Try to meditate on this all the time. Think to yourself when something occurs that makes you angry "well, see here, this is Krishna arranging this to occur in my life"....... In the life of a devotee, it is always Krishna, guiding you and purifying you and accomplishing His plans through and for you.
Krishna only wants the best for us, so there is nothing to be angry about.
There is a devotee on connect who used for his profile photo a picture of a mother Tiger carrying her baby kitten in her mouth. You know how cats do that? They pick up their young cubs by the scruff of the neck and carry them to safety that way, and remove them from danger.
So, we are the kittens (or cubs) in the mouth of "mother tiger" - Krishna.
So, being angry is like the little kitten fighting and hissing as mother tiger carries it to safety. Of course interestingly enough, if you pick a baby tiger cub up by it's scruff that way, it cannot act angry or hiss, it becomes helpless. As humans, Krishna gives us free will, so we are able to be angry and hiss even though He is doing things for our benefit. But if we understand it's Him, and He is only protecting us, and purifying us, and guiding us, then we will be less angry.
Nice to hear from you again.
Hare Krishna,
Navasi
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