Our Anger comes from our sense of I-Want. And anything that comes between us and our desire is subject to our emotion called Anger. 

When someone doesn’t behave the way we want , we get angry. It comes from our expectations. When things take longer than we want , we get angry. It comes from our impatience. Sometimes something else is bothering us but we direct our anger at someone else giving an outlet to our frustrations. When someone speaks badly of us we get angry, our pride hurt.

Expectations, Impatience, Frustrations, Pride, all have their root in our ego and egocentric desires. We need to be aware.

But sometimes we get angry not because we didn’t get something for ourselves, but we see something wrong being done unfairly to others. It’s a type of righteous anger. But anger nonetheless. We need to be aware.

No matter what the cause, anger has a terrible destructive power. It clouds our judgement, leading to temporary loss of memory of what we know better and in a fit of anger we act, only to regret later on. And holding onto our anger is the greatest harm we can do to ourselves. Anger is like an acid that corrodes the very container that holds it. 

The antidote to our anger is awareness. If we are constantly aware of our inner world, we will be able see the anger swelling, giving us a chance of redirecting the flow of our thoughts before anger consumes us and we make mistakes. And if we are honest with ourselves, during our moments of silence, this awareness will point us to the anger we’ve been holding on to.

There is much in the world that agitates us. There’s much destruction that needs correction. But let us beware that our inner world is not destroyed by our Anger.