No matter how much people preach “don’t get angry,” when certain situations arise we do get angry. Emotional states, such as anger, hate, lust, compassion or love — from the lowest to the highest — are different expressions of the same energy.
Now the question is: Can we exist without anger? It seems we cannot. This is probably because our anger is the most intense expression of energy we have experienced in our life.
People want some intensity somehow. The only ways in which they experience intensity are through physical action, anger and pain. They do not know any better ways to be intense. The reason why drugs and sex have become such big draws in the world is that somehow people want to experience some intensity, at least for a few moments. It is intensity that draws them and it is the only thing that human beings are seeking. It is as if intensity is the only thing that will liberate man from his present bondages.
Unfortunately for most people, their fear, their anger or their hatred is the most intense situation in their lives. Their love is never so intense; their peace is never so intense; their joy is never so intense. It is their negative expressions of energy that are intense. So they experience a sense of power in negative situations. Anger is an enormous intensity; it is an intensity that hurts you. It is an intensity that can get you into a lot of troubles and destroy people around you and yourself in many ways. Can we transform the negative expressions of energy into positive expressions? The answer is yes.
If you transform your energy with watchfulness and positive resolves, anger and hatred can become compassion and love no matter how negative or adverse the situation you are in is. And as you go along in the transformative process, you move towards the pinnacle of self-awareness and experience a unity with all life. Once you are, experientially, part of everything, nobody needs to teach you morality or how to be good. Then you can do something worthwhile and positive in any situation, but without anger. You do what you have to do. But when you do it with anger and hatred, it is of no value.
The whole process of yoga is based on this. A day will come when even if you are put into the most extreme situation, your energies will remain calm. How you respond will depend on the situation you are in and what means you have. When you act out of a sense of unity with all life, you act without your individual identity. Only then can you function out of your finest intelligence. Yoga means cultivating your energy in such a way that gradually breaks the physical limitations and elevates you to the highest level of awareness, the flowering of the human potential.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev can be contacted at www.ishafoundation.org
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