Honest anger is wonderful

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Sir, how can I stop myself from wanting to smash a car or motorcycle when I am about to smash?

Acharya Prashant: There is no need to stop yourself, you are already stopping yourself. I don’t think so you have ever smashed your bike against any car. So, when you are all ready to stop yourself, why are you asking this question?

Listener: Okay, so how do I be with my anger?

AP: See, that you are just trying to escape away from the real fact of the anger. It is not somebody’s car or bike that you want to smash; it is something else that you want to destroy. What is it that you really want to destroy? What will you get by smashing somebody’s windshield? What will you get by deflating somebody’s tyres? What will you get by fracturing a few bones of your own?

There is something else that you intensely dislike. What is it that you really dislike? Why don’t you face that up? All your attempts, to empty out your violence on miscellaneous objects are just an avoidance of the fact. Why don’t you have the courage to look at the facts squarely? What is it that you really want to break?

And you will find that it is such a holy anger.

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