Anger

Morning time, a cup of chai & checking out all the newsical masala circulating around us, I read a few lines of Osho.

Can’t remember the exact words, but it did hit bull’s eye on Anger!!!

Osho says, that you should throw Anger into the Cosmos instead of throwing it at one another. When you are angry with someone and you throw your anger at him, it creates a chain reaction. Now he too will be angry. This may continue for the longest time. How does one end it? There is only one possibility. You can end it only in meditation (calming your mind, basically), nowhere else, because in meditation you are not angry with someone: you are simply angry & you need to release this anger. Throw this adverse energy into the cosmos. Emotions move into the cosmos, and the cosmos purifies everything. Like a dirty river falling into the ocean, the ocean will purify it, similarly, the cosmos is so vast and so great an ocean, it purifies all negative energy, you cannot make it dirty.

In my books, this is so relevant. While we were growing up & got Angry, we were asked to count 1-10 backyards, or to go and spend ½ hour alone in our room, to take boxing gloves & hit a punching bag with all our might …… I remember a cousin, who very nearly cracked a wall in the house coz he would throw the football with all his strength on the wall to curb his anger!!!! We were made to do this, to calm us down …. To make sure we didn’t say something wrong, which would be hurtful to the other person or out of line, which would be nothing short of back answering. This, in its own, was a way of releasing the anger onto the cosmos, instead of on someone!!! (Remember the scene in Life in a Metro, where Irfan Khan asks Konkona Sen to dispel all her anger & she screams till she is completely sapped out of all the negativity!!! )

But then again, productive Anger, which does not hurt someone, but gets your point across is important too!!! (after all ,one doesn’t want anyone to take advantage of us!!!), aab , Geeta main bhi likha hai, to hurt someone is bad, to endure injustice is worse!!! Say your piece and move on!!!

Just seething with Anger, without knowing the correct picture, or even releasing the same into the cosmos, is not warranted, coz when the correct scenario comes your way, one would end up feeling truly anguished!!! So, basically, the cosmos can’t help purify what you create in your mind, that, one has to do themselves!!!!

Sometimes you see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusion. Or, you can believe in something real hard and still be wrong. …. Because u don’t know any better.

Anger is truly an inherent quality of every human being, like every other emotion’s that we are blessed with. Repression( with focus on revenge or because of lack of one’s own confidence) of Anger is no solution, it cannot be. Anger creates a circle which continues to thrive with the animosity that we hurl at each other!!!  A never ending story of Hate feeding on rage of all sorts!!! Where one loses complete control & becomes blinded, to emotions & any form of reasoning!!!

Let it go ….. throw it into the Cosmos!!! Let Cosmos Purify the Anger into Love, Peace & Happiness!!! Laughter is the true essence of positive energy!!!

Keep Smiling !!! (it will make the other person wonder what you are upto!!! J)