Acharya Prashant explains that if anger besets you, you must look at your entire life, the full spectrum. Anger is not a disease in itself but a powerful and gross indicator. It becomes necessary so that you can see how bad your condition is. While subtle signs of discomfort and bad living are always present, one tends to miss or ignore them. Because these signs are missed, the system must forcibly show you that something is wrong, causing you to erupt. This eruption is so violent and loud that you cannot miss what is happening to you. Anger is a message that the entire spectrum of your 24 hours is going wrong and that you are not living rightly. Using an analogy, the speaker states that if there is sugar in your urine, you do not treat the urine; it is merely an indicator that you are not eating right, and the malaise lies elsewhere. Similarly, anger is not the problem but a message about the way you are living. There cannot be anger without the frustration of desire. When you have a desire and face an obstacle, anger is an upsurge of energy meant to overcome that obstacle. The speaker clarifies that the real obstacle is yourself, making all anger, in some way, directed against yourself and therefore self-destructive. When you place a desire outside of yourself, feeling incomplete and believing an external thing will complete you, you invite frustration. You then get angry at yourself for having that expectation in the first place, which is why you burn in anger—you are punishing yourself. This anger arises from a misplaced assumption, as you are trying to fill a hole that never existed. In essence, anger is the punishment you receive for having wrong assumptions and expectations.
