Anger- Another demon!
Hello all,
Namaste! Hope you had a great week where you were able to throw away the junk of the lower emotions, anger, and frustrations from your life, to welcome a path of light load. We have been discussing a lot of the lower emotions/vices that hold the human society prisoner, without any upward progress many times. Among them comes anger, the last horizon to conquer. It is one of the toughest emotions to be conquered. The grip of anger on the being is tight, firm, and asphyxiating.
Anger: Even the sages of the yesteryears had a tough time conquering that. Durvasa was well known for his anger. Jamadagni and Viswamitra where no less. It was the anger of Viswamitra that propelled him to do penance to become a Brahmarishi (a sage as powerful as Brahma). He was an emperor before. The chaos the anger created in mythological stories is not small. Duryodhana along with his jealousy, also had anger towards the Pandava princes, to bring the whole clan to the point of war and get destroyed.
Now, how is it sowing the seeds of destruction in the society? Many times the anger would be there unknown, about something a person views as unfair (this can very well be their own perception). This anger sits there and broils in slow cooking and slowly gets transformed into hate and violence. There are so many examples history has provided again and again. The ethnic cleansing that happened in Bosnia in 1992, the ethnic cleansing that is happening in Myanmar now, the ethnic cleansing that may happen in the future, all are the after-effects of that displaced anger.
A particular sect or group views the other as not worthy of existence. That anger sits and boils. Once it gets enough momentum, it takes the life of a monster and appears as ethnic cleansing or genocide. The same thing happened with Germany. The German people felt the jews had all the money, and wealth and they were hoarding it. That underlying anger was sitting there hidden. When an appropriate leader who was able to stoke that anger came, things started rolling. It didn't stop till the world found itself with a holocaust, Jewish concentration camps, and killing of millions of Jews.
Now, the same thing is happening nowadays in the USA as well. The anger that was there as white nationalism, the anger to protect the purity of people with white skin was laying there hidden, suddenly found itself a podium to put its show in full display. If anybody has been watching the news, the pipe bombs, as well as the massacre of eleven people in the Jewish synagogue, was an after effect of that.
An opinion: Here, I want to put a small personal opinion. People who become leaders need to choose their words very carefully. The people who are listening to their words take it very seriously. We have already discussed the value of the words in the blog post, 'My word -My law!' The words that we use become our reality. For a leader, he/she is literally creating the reality of many others through their words. It is a spiritual tenet, 'Our thoughts become our reality.' When a leader who has so much influence on others speak, his/her words decides the reality of the group that follows them. As that group is many times very large, that group thought becomes a voice for the 'Collective unconscious' of the society. Then things that tailor to that voice happens as reality.
Yes, 'actions speak louder than words'. True. But those words can kickstart the action. If the words have negative connotations, that is the emotion that is stoked. Then actions would be taken that bring out that negative association to words. So whoever is using words to stoke people has more responsibility on their shoulders in the eyes of the Universe. They cannot escape saying it was 'just mere words'. Words do matter and it do produce outcomes. People need to be aware of that, especially people who take advantage of toxic situations and people who create toxic situations. 'The wheels of justice never stops'. Period!
Anger: So, as we were saying before, anger is the one emotion that would be conquered very last. That is the tough parasite that lives in our bloodstream. Yes, literally in our bloodstream. We even have the expression of 'blood boiling'. This is because the anger first affects the circulatory system. Our heart starts beating faster, blood starts flowing, pumping more blood through the body, our face becomes red, the body stiffens up, and we are ready to take action. Every action described here are the qualities of Kuja or Mangala ). He symbolizes blood and energy in our body.
The funny part is the same Kuja is called Mangala -auspicious'. So, in real truth, he embodies auspiciousness in it's highest vibration. Mangala, the son of the Earth! (Dharani Garba Sambhootham- born out of the womb of the Mother Earth). Before we have discussed, anger has the energy of pure creation. In lower vibration, people create bombs, mass shootings, and flight bombs. In higher vibrations, it is the creativity of energy to build every structure in this world, whether it is bridges, roads, airplanes, buildings, or even the creative concepts like FB, Amazon, or Microsoft. Even to build this, we need the energy of creativity.
History provides examples of this anger. The emperor Asoka (264-238 B.C.E.) was a great example of anger. He was very angry as an emperor, so that he decimated other kings in war. After a great battle, seeing the death and bodies of soldiers sworn around, he was overcome by sadness and compassion and became a monk. (Yes, leaders indeed have to be very aware of their words and actions). There is a sage in Hindu Mythology who embodied the lower as well as the highest version of this anger. Let us discuss his story.
Parasurama: Parasurama (Parasu-axe, Rama-name) is considered the sixth avatar of Mahavishnu (the great sustainer in Hinduism). He was born as the last son to the sage Jamadagni and mother Renuka. Even though he was very angry, he also loved and respected his parents a lot. His parents had a cow called Surabhi (or Kamadhenu- a cow fulfilling desires). The cow used to provide things for the sage and his wife, like ghee, wood, and other things for their fire ritual.
Once Parasurama had gone out of the house on some errands. At this time a king called Karthavirya Arjuna, who had a thousand hands (not the Arjuna of the Bhagavad Gita. Now how to manage a thousand hands, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe it is metaphorical for 1000 qualities.) had gone to hunting in the forest with his soldiers. As he was feeling thirsty, he wanted to drink water. At this time the group came across the hermitage (Asrama) of Jamadagni and Renuka. He and his soldiers went in. The sage welcomed them and gave them food, water, and all comforts. The king became amazed how a sage could provide all the food. He asked Jamadagni and came to know about the cow, Surabhi.
Now, Karthavirya Arjuna wanted the cow. The sage said that is not possible, as the cow was needed for them to do their fire rituals. Now the king became angry. He said such a cow should be with the king in the palace and not in the Hermitage. The king asked the sage, to capture, tie the cow and bring it to the palace (Never covet another's wealth- spiritual advice.) by the next day morning. The king's wish was to be fulfilled. The sage and his wife were devastated and very upset.
Later, when Parasurama came home, saw his father and mother sad and upset. He asked what happened. His dad Jamadagni narrated the story. Parasurama who already had numerous seeds of anger in him, became enraged. He took his axe and started to go. Jamadagni said to leave the issue and to become calm. Parasurama was not ready. He took the axe and marched to the palace. Without even having a dialogue with the king, slew the king with the axe. Even after that, his anger was not pacified. He went around the world and killed every Kshatriya (warrior) king and decimated the kings of the whole world.
Then he went back to his dad and asked him to bless him. Jamadagni said he cannot bless him, until he removes his papa (sins) of killing all the kings in the world. Parasurama asked how? Jamadagni said he had to find a land where the blood of any king or men had not stained the land and there in that land, he had to do a fire ritual. In this meantime, Jamadagni also gets killed by some warriors. Again Parasurama takes up the axe and the decimation continues. Later, Parasurama himself repents for the destruction he had caused. He wanted to do the penance.
Parasurama went around the world in search of a land not stained by the blood of the people he killed. Nowhere he could find such a land, none. That was how much destruction he had caused. Finally, he realized he would never find a piece of land unstained. So, he went to the tip of the subcontinent of India, threw his axe into the ocean and asked the ocean to move away until the axe touched the ground. The ocean obliged knowing the wrath of Parasurama.
In the new land, he did his penance and fire ritual. Later he brought numerous Brahmanas (People who live life with fire rituals and education) and asked them to stay and propagate in the new land. That new land is considered the state of Kerala, in India (my home state). The remaining years Parasurama lived his life in penance and rituals.
Analysis: Even Parasurama the sage could not control the anger. It is the true nemesis to the human being. When anger reached humongous proportions Parasurama sowed the seeds of destruction in the whole world. Let us look around. See the seeds of anger that are sowing the seeds of destruction as suicide bombers, mass shootings, massacre and more. Does the person who does this, do they get their peace? Do they get a peaceful solution to the problem? No! Anger begets anger. One seed of anger sows a million seeds of anger. One Osama-bin-Laden gives rise to billions of Osama-bin-Laden. Does any of them find the peace and prosperity they search for? Osama, half of his life spent in the caves of Afghanistan (Tora-Bora). His life also succumbed to the anger and hate he propagated.
Now, who knows what is waiting for all these people on the other side of the curtain? Even for Parasurama, the salvation came after keeping down the axe, repenting, and doing penance for his actions. Later, he brought people and rehabilitated them in the new land. The axe never saved him. It was his penance and repentance that saved his soul and brought him peace finally.
So, this story shows anger can be used to destroy or build and rehabilitate. But, when it is used to destroy, it never brings peace to the person who took the axe, sword or the gun. Many times their own destruction happen by their own weapons. Literally 'Dying by your sword'. But the same energy of creative power (anger) can be used to build corporations, organizations, and networks. Yes, anger or Mars is the son of the Earth. That pure energy can be used well to build legendary structures of the world that survive the passage of times to show the way and path to human society.
So, as a being, it is our responsibility to use the energy of that creative power well for ourselves as well as the greater society's advantage. Let that seeds not go waste, towards the destruction of the society but towards improving and bringing up the society.
I wish you a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday!😉
Next week: Life path!
Note: Images from Pixabay.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried".
All rights reserved to Jayasree Padmanabhan and SwaroopaBlog.
To my Blog readers: As all of you know, the European Union has passed laws regarding the collection of the user data. This is just to inform all my EU blog readers, I just use Google Analytics, which Google provides, to look at from where readers are reading my blogs. I also use Specific feeds to use their service for subscription list. I don't collect or intend to collect user data to sell or provide to third-party applications. Regards,
SwaroopaBlog.
Namaste! Hope you had a great week where you were able to throw away the junk of the lower emotions, anger, and frustrations from your life, to welcome a path of light load. We have been discussing a lot of the lower emotions/vices that hold the human society prisoner, without any upward progress many times. Among them comes anger, the last horizon to conquer. It is one of the toughest emotions to be conquered. The grip of anger on the being is tight, firm, and asphyxiating.
Anger: Even the sages of the yesteryears had a tough time conquering that. Durvasa was well known for his anger. Jamadagni and Viswamitra where no less. It was the anger of Viswamitra that propelled him to do penance to become a Brahmarishi (a sage as powerful as Brahma). He was an emperor before. The chaos the anger created in mythological stories is not small. Duryodhana along with his jealousy, also had anger towards the Pandava princes, to bring the whole clan to the point of war and get destroyed.
Now, how is it sowing the seeds of destruction in the society? Many times the anger would be there unknown, about something a person views as unfair (this can very well be their own perception). This anger sits there and broils in slow cooking and slowly gets transformed into hate and violence. There are so many examples history has provided again and again. The ethnic cleansing that happened in Bosnia in 1992, the ethnic cleansing that is happening in Myanmar now, the ethnic cleansing that may happen in the future, all are the after-effects of that displaced anger.
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| Anger - Another demon! Image courtesy- Pixabay.com |
A particular sect or group views the other as not worthy of existence. That anger sits and boils. Once it gets enough momentum, it takes the life of a monster and appears as ethnic cleansing or genocide. The same thing happened with Germany. The German people felt the jews had all the money, and wealth and they were hoarding it. That underlying anger was sitting there hidden. When an appropriate leader who was able to stoke that anger came, things started rolling. It didn't stop till the world found itself with a holocaust, Jewish concentration camps, and killing of millions of Jews.
Now, the same thing is happening nowadays in the USA as well. The anger that was there as white nationalism, the anger to protect the purity of people with white skin was laying there hidden, suddenly found itself a podium to put its show in full display. If anybody has been watching the news, the pipe bombs, as well as the massacre of eleven people in the Jewish synagogue, was an after effect of that.
An opinion: Here, I want to put a small personal opinion. People who become leaders need to choose their words very carefully. The people who are listening to their words take it very seriously. We have already discussed the value of the words in the blog post, 'My word -My law!' The words that we use become our reality. For a leader, he/she is literally creating the reality of many others through their words. It is a spiritual tenet, 'Our thoughts become our reality.' When a leader who has so much influence on others speak, his/her words decides the reality of the group that follows them. As that group is many times very large, that group thought becomes a voice for the 'Collective unconscious' of the society. Then things that tailor to that voice happens as reality.
Yes, 'actions speak louder than words'. True. But those words can kickstart the action. If the words have negative connotations, that is the emotion that is stoked. Then actions would be taken that bring out that negative association to words. So whoever is using words to stoke people has more responsibility on their shoulders in the eyes of the Universe. They cannot escape saying it was 'just mere words'. Words do matter and it do produce outcomes. People need to be aware of that, especially people who take advantage of toxic situations and people who create toxic situations. 'The wheels of justice never stops'. Period!
Anger: So, as we were saying before, anger is the one emotion that would be conquered very last. That is the tough parasite that lives in our bloodstream. Yes, literally in our bloodstream. We even have the expression of 'blood boiling'. This is because the anger first affects the circulatory system. Our heart starts beating faster, blood starts flowing, pumping more blood through the body, our face becomes red, the body stiffens up, and we are ready to take action. Every action described here are the qualities of Kuja or Mangala ). He symbolizes blood and energy in our body.
The funny part is the same Kuja is called Mangala -auspicious'. So, in real truth, he embodies auspiciousness in it's highest vibration. Mangala, the son of the Earth! (Dharani Garba Sambhootham- born out of the womb of the Mother Earth). Before we have discussed, anger has the energy of pure creation. In lower vibration, people create bombs, mass shootings, and flight bombs. In higher vibrations, it is the creativity of energy to build every structure in this world, whether it is bridges, roads, airplanes, buildings, or even the creative concepts like FB, Amazon, or Microsoft. Even to build this, we need the energy of creativity.
History provides examples of this anger. The emperor Asoka (264-238 B.C.E.) was a great example of anger. He was very angry as an emperor, so that he decimated other kings in war. After a great battle, seeing the death and bodies of soldiers sworn around, he was overcome by sadness and compassion and became a monk. (Yes, leaders indeed have to be very aware of their words and actions). There is a sage in Hindu Mythology who embodied the lower as well as the highest version of this anger. Let us discuss his story.
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| Anger - Boiling of the blood itself! (Happy Haloween!) Image courtesy - Pixabay.com |
Parasurama: Parasurama (Parasu-axe, Rama-name) is considered the sixth avatar of Mahavishnu (the great sustainer in Hinduism). He was born as the last son to the sage Jamadagni and mother Renuka. Even though he was very angry, he also loved and respected his parents a lot. His parents had a cow called Surabhi (or Kamadhenu- a cow fulfilling desires). The cow used to provide things for the sage and his wife, like ghee, wood, and other things for their fire ritual.
Once Parasurama had gone out of the house on some errands. At this time a king called Karthavirya Arjuna, who had a thousand hands (not the Arjuna of the Bhagavad Gita. Now how to manage a thousand hands, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe it is metaphorical for 1000 qualities.) had gone to hunting in the forest with his soldiers. As he was feeling thirsty, he wanted to drink water. At this time the group came across the hermitage (Asrama) of Jamadagni and Renuka. He and his soldiers went in. The sage welcomed them and gave them food, water, and all comforts. The king became amazed how a sage could provide all the food. He asked Jamadagni and came to know about the cow, Surabhi.
Now, Karthavirya Arjuna wanted the cow. The sage said that is not possible, as the cow was needed for them to do their fire rituals. Now the king became angry. He said such a cow should be with the king in the palace and not in the Hermitage. The king asked the sage, to capture, tie the cow and bring it to the palace (Never covet another's wealth- spiritual advice.) by the next day morning. The king's wish was to be fulfilled. The sage and his wife were devastated and very upset.
 |
| Jamadagni telling Parasurama about Karthaviryarjuna! By Ramanarayanadatta astri [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
Later, when Parasurama came home, saw his father and mother sad and upset. He asked what happened. His dad Jamadagni narrated the story. Parasurama who already had numerous seeds of anger in him, became enraged. He took his axe and started to go. Jamadagni said to leave the issue and to become calm. Parasurama was not ready. He took the axe and marched to the palace. Without even having a dialogue with the king, slew the king with the axe. Even after that, his anger was not pacified. He went around the world and killed every Kshatriya (warrior) king and decimated the kings of the whole world.
Then he went back to his dad and asked him to bless him. Jamadagni said he cannot bless him, until he removes his papa (sins) of killing all the kings in the world. Parasurama asked how? Jamadagni said he had to find a land where the blood of any king or men had not stained the land and there in that land, he had to do a fire ritual. In this meantime, Jamadagni also gets killed by some warriors. Again Parasurama takes up the axe and the decimation continues. Later, Parasurama himself repents for the destruction he had caused. He wanted to do the penance.
 |
| Parasurama with his axe! Raja Ravi Varma [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
Parasurama went around the world in search of a land not stained by the blood of the people he killed. Nowhere he could find such a land, none. That was how much destruction he had caused. Finally, he realized he would never find a piece of land unstained. So, he went to the tip of the subcontinent of India, threw his axe into the ocean and asked the ocean to move away until the axe touched the ground. The ocean obliged knowing the wrath of Parasurama.
In the new land, he did his penance and fire ritual. Later he brought numerous Brahmanas (People who live life with fire rituals and education) and asked them to stay and propagate in the new land. That new land is considered the state of Kerala, in India (my home state). The remaining years Parasurama lived his life in penance and rituals.
Analysis: Even Parasurama the sage could not control the anger. It is the true nemesis to the human being. When anger reached humongous proportions Parasurama sowed the seeds of destruction in the whole world. Let us look around. See the seeds of anger that are sowing the seeds of destruction as suicide bombers, mass shootings, massacre and more. Does the person who does this, do they get their peace? Do they get a peaceful solution to the problem? No! Anger begets anger. One seed of anger sows a million seeds of anger. One Osama-bin-Laden gives rise to billions of Osama-bin-Laden. Does any of them find the peace and prosperity they search for? Osama, half of his life spent in the caves of Afghanistan (Tora-Bora). His life also succumbed to the anger and hate he propagated.
Now, who knows what is waiting for all these people on the other side of the curtain? Even for Parasurama, the salvation came after keeping down the axe, repenting, and doing penance for his actions. Later, he brought people and rehabilitated them in the new land. The axe never saved him. It was his penance and repentance that saved his soul and brought him peace finally.
So, this story shows anger can be used to destroy or build and rehabilitate. But, when it is used to destroy, it never brings peace to the person who took the axe, sword or the gun. Many times their own destruction happen by their own weapons. Literally 'Dying by your sword'. But the same energy of creative power (anger) can be used to build corporations, organizations, and networks. Yes, anger or Mars is the son of the Earth. That pure energy can be used well to build legendary structures of the world that survive the passage of times to show the way and path to human society.
So, as a being, it is our responsibility to use the energy of that creative power well for ourselves as well as the greater society's advantage. Let that seeds not go waste, towards the destruction of the society but towards improving and bringing up the society.
I wish you a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday!😉
Next week: Life path!
Note: Images from Pixabay.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried".
All rights reserved to Jayasree Padmanabhan and SwaroopaBlog.
To my Blog readers: As all of you know, the European Union has passed laws regarding the collection of the user data. This is just to inform all my EU blog readers, I just use Google Analytics, which Google provides, to look at from where readers are reading my blogs. I also use Specific feeds to use their service for subscription list. I don't collect or intend to collect user data to sell or provide to third-party applications. Regards,
SwaroopaBlog.
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