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Soul Sustenance 05-05-2013
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The Relationship Between Anger And Attachment
Most of us logically understand that all forms of anger are worthlessness emotions,
but when we enter into the field of practical actions, we tend to argue that there
are some situations where the weapon of anger has to be used and where it is justified
or allowable. When someone tries to harm me personally, like giving sorrow to a
friend or loved one, send a complaint about my work to the higher ups in the office
or simply insult me or bang into my car at the street crossing for that matter,
it would seem that our anger is justified, on such occasions. But the basic principle
is the same in all these cases. We are, in our own mind, trying to control and change
what we cannot change - the past or other people or events.
In all the above cases above we suffer a lot when these things that are close to
us are changed or lost. So why does that happen? It is because we keep all these
things ‘too’ close to us or in other words we are ‘over attached’ to them.
When someone tries to bring me down at the workplace, or in other words tries to
harm my position in the office and I suffer because of the same, it is because I
identify with my role in the office, I think I am the role. When someone bangs into
my car, the emotion of anger emerges inside me, because I identify with the car,
I think I am the car! This is the deepest mistake. It is the deepest cause of the
negative suffering called anger. We are not aware of this of course, but if we were
to take a moment and see what we do in our minds, we would see we emerge the image
of our role or our car on the screen of our mind. We have then gone into that image
in our mind, and we have lost our spiritual identity or individuality in that image.
In effect we have identified completely with the role or the car or are too attached
to them. So if the role or the car is harmed in any way, it feels like it is happening
to us and, as a result, we become disturbed or angry.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
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Message for the day 05-05-2013
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To recognise the uniqueness of one's own role is to be free from negativity.
Projection: When we find things going wrong with us, we sometimes wish for
a change in our role. We begin to compare ourselves with others or wish for something
better in our life, which makes us lose all our enthusiasm. We then make no effort
to better our role.
Solution: We need to recognise the importance of our own role. Like an actor
who doesn't make effort to change his role but brings perfection to his own role,
we, too, need to concentrate on our own role. The recognition of the importance
of our own role and the desire to bring excellence to it makes us free from negativity.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris