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How can we conquer our anger? Well, in order to be in complete control of our temperament, we must employ thoughtfulness, peace, concentration & forgiveness in our behavior. Worship & prayer also help us conquer our anger. And once we learn how to nip our fury, we shall easily be able to discard contempt, ego and envy from our lives. Whoever harms us can be treated with mercy and pity. We must treat oppression as a gift of God and shall try to consider sympathy and service as a means to attain and establish the intention of love and compassion all around. Being contented is one of the means of achieving salvation. Contentment can be attained through benevolence, shedding of greed and considering everyone as equal. We must also try to curtail our desires as this shall rescue us from dejection and disappointment. We must try to escape any sort of greed and attachment. Attachment and attraction are a kind of poison which are followed by sufferings and sadness. Happiness and sadness both go hand in hand. When a person gets attracted to something he unknowingly sows the poisonous seeds of sadness which gives birth to compassion, Compassion in turn is accompanied by desire of possession which leads to suffering and pain and destroys our entire being. Akhand Jyoti, February 1956, pg.-6
finish, he put his sister & brother in law in a dungeon, started his killing spree while terrorizing people around.
Let us consider the vast difference between these two attitudes. They are known as Devatwa and Asuratwa, divine and demonic traits. Only those who are equipped with divine virtues have the eagerness to do good acts, and have good thoughts, faith in God, compassion towards all beings, truth, non-violence, love and contrition for swerving from the straight path. To them alone, thoughts of God and urges to do good & sanctitying deeds will emerge during their last days. So we should never wait for the end days. Instead take the steering wheel of life right on the day the knowledge dawns upon us. Probably the great ship Titanic could have been saved if the captain could set his course much earlier to avoid all those icebergs.
In the evening I was astonished to see a grain of gold in my satchel. I wept badly and repented-Why didnt I donate my entire being, I would have become a King from a pauper. Akhand Jyoti March 1940 pg-9
denigrating the pure beauty, the reverence, and the idealism of Saraswati, the goddess of art.The power of art is immense. This power can fill our hearts with positive sentiments and it is fully capable of uplifting us to the highest level of consciousness. In the past, art was inspired by devotional sentiments. All the spheres of art such as sculpture, painting, recitation, prayers, dance, and literature had evolved from roots of religious devotion and reverence. This connection between art and spirituality was instrumental in increasing internal satisfaction, it helped in increasing contentment, and it helped in deepening our faith.