When anger arises what uddipana can we use to control it?

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Any last question? So when anger arises At that time Can we use some Uddhipan To Control ourselves? Prabhupada Said at one time that If you feel angry Just remember Narasimhadeva’s anger In front of Your In front of his anger Your anger is nothing And That way By realizing the insignificance of Our being Insignificance of our anger Insignificance of our problem We can Avoid that anger So that is A principle which Prabhupada gave And we can try that It’s a It’s a Recommendation But the whole idea is that Just as All emotions are manifested in their fullness In Krishna So once Prabhupada was asked He was asked Some Christians would criticize Krishna’s Relationship with the gopis So Krishna is a lusty young man So Prabhupada said if he is God Then he is supreme lusty And So that’s why he has unlimited gopis So it is Completely turned our argument around If God is great that means His greatness is in all directions Now what would this mean practically for us? Practically it can mean that Actually We are Basically Parts of Krishna And You know We talk about Yad Yad Vibhuti Mat Satyam Shreemadur Jitamevava Tattva Devavagachittam Mat Ejo Amsha Sambhava That Mamma Tejo Amsha Let the objects of this world manifest A spark of His splendor The spark means that Now It can be attractive Vibhuti also means Opulence or power Shreemadur Jitamevava So So whatever gives us a sense of power That sensation of power Is also Krishna The 10th chapter Krishna says Jaiyosmi Vyavasaiyosmi That I am victory and I am adventure Prabhupada translates Vyavasai over there So When we get a sensation of anger We feel a rush of power You, you, you You spoke like that You did like that I will put you in your place And Anger promises us that It will help us do that So our Power is limited as compared to Krishna’s And similarly the power of our anger is also limited Although anger seems to make us Temporarily more powerful than what we are In the long run it ends up It ends up making us Weaker Because we have to bear the consequences Of whatever it is that we may have spoken Or done under the spell of anger So When we see that That sensation of power That comes when we are angry Just like it is said Dharmaviruddhavo teshu Kamosmi Bharatarshiva That That The Act of procreation Even when there is pleasure in that That can also be an experience of God You become a co-creator with him So That has to be Dharmically channeled of course But it can be like that So similarly You can dharmically channel The The Sense of power that comes through anger So basically Whichever pastimes Are there where we see Krishna’s power Krishna’s anger Manifested And that happens primarily In Narasimhadev Many others also Primarily in Narasimhadev Especially when he is angry with Everyone While Prahlad was being tormented So If we can Take care of that If we can meditate on him Meditate on that manifestation of the Lord Connect with that manifestation of the Lord on a regular basis Then whenever an issue comes up Where we are not able to deal with things Where we start feeling angry At that particular time We will have Some context in which to channel our anger To tell oneself don’t become angry That is not that easy You can try it And we should try it But it is not that easy Instead if we focus on Trying to connect whatever we are experiencing With Krishna That Whatever surge of power I get Naturally that thrill That sensation Is actually a dim reflection of Krishna’s attractiveness So it is not just the objects Are Objects reflect Krishna’s glory But even the emotions You know people experience different things And whatever Is our deepest experience Whatever is our most intense experience Actually that is Our experience of Krishna Now we may not know that That is Krishna But just like Prabhupada said that Alcoholic who is drinking alcohol Who can’t stop drinking wine If he thinks that this taste of the wine Is Krishna Then one day he will become a Great Devotee By thinking about Krishna in this way So like that The anger itself is something which we need to process And sometimes By proper contemplation By proper caution We might be able to resist the anger immediately In some cases it may take more time But either way If we can see it in a spiritual context Then that will help us Move forward That will help us to Avoid getting Carried away by the anger To avoid getting Consumed, overwhelmed And over a period of time By the steady connection with Krishna That anger will become more manageable So Now The uddhipan which may work is Not necessarily the Angry manifestation of the Lord Although that can work But we have to find out What works for us It’s a war And my mind is different from your mind Which is different from someone else’s mind And What weapon will help me to deal with my mind May be different from whatever Weapon helps someone else to deal with their mind So in my case As I mentioned many times I usually try to Find a mean Between expressing And repressing, that is processing So I try to Write it down Or sometimes when I am alone At that particular point I just somehow If I am angry I just I will not speak Just walk out of the situation And then later on we can deal with the situation afterwards So when later on we have to deal with it At that time maybe we can Just decide that we are going to Maybe express ourselves By writing or by speaking privately But nobody is hearing it And we can record it, we can note it down And then we review it That way we can Evaluate, ok this point makes sense, this point doesn’t make sense So And then we can, after appropriate processing We can express where it is necessary So I don’t see any Sure fire method That will work for everyone As they say, the shoe that bites one leg That fits one leg Bites another leg So material, the way We are dealing with the mind is different for different people Whatever works is what we need to Adopt And what works is often What we learn by experience People say that Good judgment Is a result of Bad experience And bad experience is often a result Of bad judgment Sometimes We just learn by Going through life itself So we can When we do burst out at someone We can try to observe introspect And see what could have been done better at that time That way we can learn