Let’s drop the notion that anger is inherently evil. There is an anger that arises out of frustration—frustration that your desire could not be fulfilled. If there is one thing you may want to call bad, it is misplaced anger. There is no worse sight than a young man who cannot be angry. Be angry for the right reasons. Let your anger spring from the right center, not from your petty self.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, in spite of keeping all watch and vigil, anger comes and leads to wrong actions on certain trigger points and situations. After that it is realized that a slip-up happened. What is the way?
Acharya Prashant: There is nothing in existence that is unnecessary, totally useless, needlessly there. It is good that we are talking of anger, its processes and its consequences, the harm that it does. But that also might be because firstly anger is very gross, very visible. There is a clear sensual expression of anger. So, it becomes very obvious that we are angry; it cannot remain hidden.
And secondly, our education or morality has constantly taught us that anger is something bad. So, to the problem of anger, we seem like being alert. But are we equally alert, let’s say, to the fact that even in those moments of the day when everything appears normal, we are actually feeling a little down, a little dull, a little bored, a little short of energy; that we do not consider a problem as big as anger, again for those two same reasons?
