Is the One Getting Angry Weak or Strong?

In daily life, it is said that at some places, getting angry is necessary. If we do not get angry, isn’t that called a weakness? So, in this sense, is anger good? However, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, the spiritual scientist of Akram Vignan, gives an understanding that is altogether different from the worldly belief. He has stated, “No, there is no reason why one has to get angry.” He says that it is anger that is a weakness. One who does not have the weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed is called strong.

Even Mind Does Not Spoil, That’s Called Strong!

Questioner: So then, if someone insults me and I remain quiet, then wouldn’t that be considered a weakness?

Dadashri: No. Actually, to tolerate an insult is considered a great strength! If someone were to hurl an abuse at me right now, then it would not affect me at all. Even my mind would not spoil for that person. That itself is strength! Whereas all these people do indeed keep on quarrelling, every single living being keeps on fighting, that is all considered a weakness. Therefore, to tolerate an insult quietly is the greatest strength. And when you are able to bear such an insult just once, if you move one step further, then the energy to move a hundred steps further arises. Did you understand? If the person being faced with is strong, then every living being indeed becomes weak in front of him; that is one’s intrinsic property. However, even if a weak person instigates you, yet you do not do anything to him, then that is considered strength.

Really, the weak should be protected and the strong should be confronted. However, such people no longer exist in the current era of the time cycle! Nowadays, people keep hurting the weak and running away from the strong. Very few people protect the weak and stand up to the strong. When such people exist, they are considered as having the attribute of the warrior class. Otherwise, the entire world keeps hurting the weak. At home, the husband dominates over the wife. If you beat a cow that is tied up, where will she go? And what if you untie the cow and then beat her? She will either run away or fight back.

If Anger Leaves…

Anger is a weakness. One who does not have that weakness, his personality impresses people.

People who do not use the weapon of anger to improve or change the other person, their personality impresses others. Then when such person makes even a simple suggestion, everyone will agree with him, and will follow what he says.

But when we try to scold and improve someone, the other person will not listen to us at all. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan explains the reason for it, saying, “Why do they not obey you? Your personality does not impress them. That is why one should not have weakness; one should be of moral and pure conduct. One should be a man of personality! Hundreds of thousands of hooligans would run away simply upon seeing such a person! Whereas no one would run away from an irritable person; on the contrary, he would even be beaten! The world would indeed beat the one who is weak!"

The Glory of Sheel (the conduct that is free of sexuality and anger, pride, deceit, and greed)

A truly strong individual has with him the weapon of Sheel. People do not fear of a person who gets angry as much as they fear a person who does not get angry. What’s the reason for it? It’s the law of Nature that when anger ceases, glory arises. Glory means cool heat, the heat of character.

Like where there has been a snowfall, it is very cold there. The bushes burn in the coolness of that snow; the cotton, the grass, everything burns. Because, snow is way colder than the limit. Just as plants burn in the heat of fire, so do they burn in the extreme coolness of the snow. Similarly, if we remain calm without getting angry, then such glory arises, as an effect of which, the other person improves without us having to say anything.

Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan explains that, if true strength arises against the weakness of anger, then by its glory only, everyone is in control (is subdued).

Dadashri: A person who, despite having the strength to do so, does not harass another person, does not harass even his enemy, is considered as being strong. Right now, if someone was getting angry with you and you got angry with him, then wouldn’t that be considered cowardly? So what I am saying is that, anger-pride-deceit-greed are themselves weaknesses. For the one who is strong, what is the need for getting angry? Yet one attempts to control the other person through the ‘heat’ of anger. However, the one who does not have anger must have something, mustn’t he? Even animals become subdued by the conduct that he possesses, the conduct known as sheel. Tigers, lions, all enemies, the entire army becomes subdued!