The causes of anger rarely hurt us as much as the consequences of anger Gita 16.21

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Hare Krishna the causes of anger rarely hurt us as much as the consequences of anger whenever we become angry whenever somebody does something which irritates infuriates us there is a cause for it that person’s behavior their irresponsibility their insensitivity whatever it may be and that irresponsibility insensitivity annoys us irritates us so there is a cause for anger and it hurts us however the consequences of anger hurt us much more that means when we give in to that anger and we act on it then that action it is often driven by the hope or more specifically the illusion that it will rectify whatever problem we are facing but instead of rectifying quite often it worsens it worsens the problem why because under the spell of anger we speak and do things that we regret we lose our intelligence anger makes anger is like temporary insanity and under its spell what we do is horrible so the anger can even when we indulge in anger it can create hellish conditions in our life the Bhagavad Gita warns in 1621 trividham narkasyedam dwaram nashanam atmana kaamah krodhas tathalobhas tasmadetatrayam tejet lust anger and greed are the three gates to hell and the wise don’t go anywhere near these gates that means by understanding that the consequences of anger will be far greater will hurt us far more in the cause of anger we learn to control ourselves we get the intellectual impetus to control ourselves and if we connect with the supreme divinity Krishna then that connection gives us the strength to reign in our anger thank you