What is anger?? According to Wikipedia, Anger is an emotion related to one's perception of having been offended or wronged and a tendency to undo that wrongdoing by retaliation . Putting it in simple words, its an emotional outburst that comes up when we feel offended and is accompanied by a feeling of undoing that action. Here is a simple analogy to it, i call it The Coke bottle analogy!
Coke bottle Analogy to Anger:
Shake a bottle of coke for 5 mins and then open the cap. What happens?? Everything bursts out, leaving the bottle empty causing the drink to flow all over the place ruining the carpet/floor too!
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| See the Fizz??? |
Our body is like the coke bottle, the mind is the liquid inside the bottle. The feeling of being offended is like shaking the bottle, and the outburst of Anger is the soda burst. This is quite but obvious from the above that if the bottle is agitated the mind will burst out! So for an ignorant, it is normal to be angry!
But a wise knows its not the bottle or the liquid that causes this outburst! Its the fizz, the Gas in the liquid at high pressure that causes the soda outburst. Its the past impressions, thoughts in our mind that act as the fizz for the mind and cause the outburst. When the mind with lot of fizz is agitated it bursts out.
And, a calm mind is like a bottle of juice. No fizz inside!
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| Calm Mind! |
Similarly a calm mind when agitated, knows how to act and deal with the situation. A calm mind is cool all the time no matter how much the disturbance/ agitation is and just makes the situation better! What about a bottle of Tropicana juice shaken for a while and opened to serve?? It tastes better, because it says, "Shake well Before use! Serve Chilled"
Jai Gurudev!
Deepak
Jai Gurudev!
Deepak
