YoGA FoR AnGeR MAnAGeMent

20 | Yoga for Anger Management
It was about to hit. The sage then asked the Cobra, why is it
so angry? Why do you hit everybody who passes this way? If
you are hungry, you have to kill a frog. What are you going to
gain by killing people around you? They are not hurting you.
Then the Cobra said, sorry I agree, I understand, but I cannot
control my anger, what should I do? Then Swamiji gave a
Deeksha Mantra to the Cobra and the Cobra started doing lot
of Mantra-Japa and chanting and all that and it became very
quiet. Sage walked out and all the children who were walking
said, vah, cobra is now chanting japa and the cobra was doing
japa, no anger, no hitting and no killing. Children came near,
held the cobra, touched the cobra and now it became so sober
that it could not even kill the frog for its survival. Children
held it and turned it around. So the Cobra was all wounded.
One day, the Sage came back. Sage saw that this Cobra was
in a very terrible shape, wounded, under nourished. The sage
asked what had happened. Then the cobra said, due to the
power of your Mantra, now I can’t even get a frog to eat. Then
the sage said something very important. Sage said to the Cobra,
my dear Naga, I asked you not to bite, but did I ask you
not to hiss. So as a master of anger, you are not going to get
lost in the speeded up response in your mind, you are not going
to be a slave to the anger. You can be a master. So you
can hiss when required, like a mother. When the child is not
doing the homework, what will the mother say? If you don’t do
your homework, I won’t allow you to see Cartoon. Is that going
to hurt the child? Is that going to produce a heart attack to
the mother? No. But if she is angry, really angry and shouts
at somebody, then she hurts herself. Therefore learn to hiss.
If you are a master of your anger, you can use anger as a mas-
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