Effects of anger

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How Brahma himself gave birth to Dharma from his own breast. Dharma was married to the 13 daughters of Daksha. One of the queens name is Muraki and from the womb of her came the advent of the Supreme Personality of Godhead of Nara Narayana Rishi.

Then they performed great austerities on the holy land of Badrikashramam in the high feets of Himalayas. The austerities they were performing were to severe infact the Lord was displaying his own oppulance of renunciation. It cannot possibly immitated by any mortal for infinite testimonial of jiva. Indhra became very fearful. Materialistic people are always thinking that everyone thinks like themselves. The world is the mirror of one's own mind. Where ever we look we see our own consciousness. He was thinking I am attached to the beautiful swarkaloka and I have performed such tapasya to attain it so therefore anyone performing tapasya their aim must be to take my post.

So Kamadev created a whole atmosphere was so inducive to the material enjoyment all of his strength and powers were being aimed at Nara Narayan Rishis. So people became very much afraid. Lord was so kindly benevolently smiled at Kama dev and all of his associated and told them do not fear, you are my honored and welcomed guests to have come to sanctify my ashram so please accept my gifts from me of my hospitality. when they saw there is no pride and when there is no price there can be no anger.

They were astounded and they bowed down seeking the compassion of the Lord and began to praise him, that we the demigods we put so many obstacles in front of peoples especially the Lord's devotees but those who are protecte by you O'Lord can easily cross the ocean of all obstacles before them.

Those who do not surrener to you will be easily be consumed and drowned by this ocean and somehow or other if by the power of the mystic austerities, they can cross the whole ocean of material attraction, they beocme proud by doing so and when they become proud, they easily become angry and the little puddle which is the size of the foot print of the path which represents anger these persons are mustics and not devoted to you after crossing the whole ocean of material tempations they drowned in the foot print of little path in the form of wrath and anger and loose all of their austerities.

But you are the Lord you are completely Absolute transcedental personality and those who take the shelter of you acheived your special mercy. So Nara Narayanan just to show who is Godhead from his body emanated beautiful, heavenly females that made all the cupids female pale, and ugly in comparison.

The demigods after seeing not only seeing all their senses were completely infactuated, bewildered and conquered by the sight of these beautiful ladies. But Nara Narayan rishis have no attraction for any of them.

Srila Prabupada explains in the purport that the confectioner who is making sweet meats everyone else is attracted to sweet and he is not attracted.

So the Lord who manifests he is perfect an satisfied by himself. He told the demigods to take one of the beautiful ladies and take them with you as my present.

So they chose Urvasi and she was brought back to Indhra loka, Kamadev explained to Indhra about what happened. Indhra was frightened a rakand ashamed but very happy to see urvasi and she became the crown jewel of all the pleasurable heavenly pastimes.

Infact without herthe heavenly abode appeared to be without any excitement, so this is the glory of Nara Narayan rishis. Here Sukadeva Goswami explained how unprecedented is the Supreme power of Godhead in the form of renunciation that he is comparing him to the greatest stalwarts. In this universe there is no greatest stalwarts in tapasya then Lord Shiva. When he was making a comparison, Lord Shiva and Sati had already burned themselves to ashes in the yagya of the Daksha and she took birth again as the daughter of himanan the presiding murti of the Himalayas and her name is Parvati or himavati. From her earliest youth she was naturally attracted to lord Shiva and she was performing tapasya to get lord shiva as her husband. Meanwhile lord Shiva was sitting in his yoga samadhi meditating on the Supreme Lord Krishna's pastimes within his own heard and hje was so completely immersed in the meditation, but that time a great demon named Taraka he was conquering all the world.

The demigods has no power to extend his anger so they understood after consulting with higher authorities that the only person who would be competent to kill this demon is the son of Lord Shiva but at that time there is no son. So Indhra again to protect his abode he sent Kamadev to Shiva because no one else can get him out of his Samadhi. Kamadev created all around the most attractive and impulsive atmosphere towards temptation.

Lord Shiva was totally unmoved. Kamadev has bow and arrow, and he took and shot at the heart of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva was disturbed and looked for him in all directions.

He found kamadev and Shiva out of wrath being disturbed his third eye opened from that eye came a fire that burned cupid to ashes. Meanwhile Kamadev's consort Rati was very much sad, to see her husband in a pile of ashes, so she prayed to Lord Shiva to give her husband Lord Shiva is ashotosh, he is easily pleased and living beings. He told Rati he will become the son of Lord Krishna and there you will be reunited.

Meanwhile a demon Sambara had very powerful mystic power and great wealth and he was told the son of Krishna and Rukmini will kill him. So meanwhile Lord Krishna recently leve Vrindavan with Uncle Akrura and had gone to Matura, he satisfied Vasudev and devaki and also satisfied and promised that he will destroy all the demons in the world. He decided to move to Dwarka since so many demons were attacking Matura. He married Rukmini. They had a son named Pradyumna. He is the incarnation of Kamadev. The demon Sambara kmow that Pradyumna will kill him.

Sambara disguised himself as beautiful lady and kidnapped pradyumna and threw the baby into the ocean. Rukmini was very sad their hearts are broken, the first child who is the beauty and charm had been taken away. Days and days went by searching everywhere. Obviously they taught he would be killed. If Krishna wants to protect you nothing can harm you, if Krishna has to harm you nothing can protect you.

But the little child living in that ocean was swallowed by a big fish and not a blade of grass moved without the sanction of the Lord. He was orchestrating every movement such as it is favorable for oppurtunity for all of us to make spiritual advancement and we must recognize that in good or bad times, honor or dishonor pleasure or pain, we should know that Krishna is putting us in such situation to help us surrender to him.

This case how many are fishes are in the ocean, billions and billions are there. This particular fish which caught Pradyumna, and he was living in the belly of the fish comfortably by the mercy of the Lord. A fisherman caught the fish. Fisherman went to the palace of Sambara selling fish. Fisherman went to palace of Sambara selling fish. So Sambara ate fish since he is a Rakshasa. So Sambara was happy to get that fish and the cook was about to prepare, he cut open the fish and the beautiful baby was there.

Rati Kamadev's consort, she took the position of assistant cook in the kitchen of Sambara, she only cooked rice and dhal. When the baby was taken out, just at that time Narada Muni appeared. He explained to Rati, and told her about the previous life about Kamadev and Rati. She became caring for the baby and bathed him, cared for him and waiting for the moment to grow up.

Very quickly the child started growing and growing mystically very beautifully. In a matter of days she asked glancing upon him and started indicating that they should enjoy and Pradyumna got bewildered by looking at all this.

He said you are my mother how can you do this. But actually I am not you mother, I am your consort, she explained everything to him. So she said you should kill this Sambara and go back to Mother Rukmini and Father Krishna. But Rukmini the day you have gone she is weeping and crying by the loss of the son. So Mayavathi she instructed Pradyumna about how to fight Sambara the wife became the Guru which is very common to these days. So Pradyumna went before Sambara and started insulting him.

His choice words were so pierceful to the heart. He created such anger is Sambara's mind and Pradyumna said, I challenge you to fight. They began to fight and Sambara understood that he was the son of Krishna, Sambara went upto the sky, he was trained by Maya he has Mahamaya powers. But Mayavati trained up Pradyumna in Maha viji powers which is more powerful which is coming from God.

Maha Maya powers are coming from illusory energy. As they were fighting Sambara was throwing everytype or weapon which was easily destroyed by Pradyumna. When nothing left Pradyumna took a sword and cut off Sambara.Then Mayavati said she will transfer both of them airways to Dwaraka. They immediately flew to Dwaraka. Mayavati landed her mystical airship right in the palace of Krishna and Rukmini so many beautiful ladies seeing his beautiful form they thought he is Krishna they were embarrassed then they found that he did not have certain features he is not Krishna.

Rukmini saw this child and know that she must be her child. There was wonderful festival of celeberation for the return of Pradyumna.

Through this wonderful story we understand Lord Shiva who conquered lust was still subjected to wrath. But Nara Narayan rishi not only he conquered lust when the cupid came to do the same thing to him Nara Narayan rishi was completely composed and respectful and actually adorned gifts to people. This is the nature of Supreme personality of God head.

We have heard how Lord Shiva himself is very happy and proud to be devoted by Mohini murti just to show how Krishna is better than me. I am his servant. Wrath is one of the great enemy that must be controlled somehow or the other.

Bhagavad Gita 3.37

sri-bhagavan uvaca
kama esa krodha esa
rajo-guna-samudbhavah
mahasano maha-papma
viddhy enam iha vairinam


The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.

Lust is the great sinful enemy when it is unfullfilled it creates wrath. When there is a wrath there is an offense and when there is offense they fall down into material existance lower and lower.

To control anger is very difficult and they are all interconnected. Gita says there are three gates which leads to hell. Lust, anger and greed. Any sane man should give them up because they lead to the degradation of the soul. Krishna explains the whole cycle about how one falls into the material life.

First is attraction between the object of the senses and senses. From that attraction come attachment and lust (kama), longing and craving to enjoy something. Whatever we enjoy we naturally become attached. That is the nature of the sould which is to find unlimited enjoyment in being enjoyed by Krishna and therefore one becomes unlimitedly attached to Krishna and that that is perfection of life.

Lord Kapila dev had said the path of perfection is to transfer your attachment from material enjoyment and becoming attached to Sadhus who are the advanced devotees of the Lor. Because they always bring the conciousness to the Lotus feet of the Lord. Through that process you become attached to Krishna and then you become detached from everything in this world then you dont have any more birth and death.

In material existance one becomes attached and that attachment is frustrating and we become angry. We become overwhelmed by that angry sensation. Srila Prabupada says when your chest becomes hot. Breathing become quiver, eyes become red, and your memory/intelligence becomes bewildered. You could no longer think like a same person. You are not thinking systematically.

If I say something now that will do in future we should always be calculating like that. When there is anger we become an animal, become ceased by the moment and react like fire then speak harshly, a terrible act. People when intoxicated they become angry easily. Lusty frustration anger like Ravana, Jagai and Madai. When memory is bewildered -> Intelligence is lost -> Speak and act which will degrade yourself.

Anger is your worst enemy.

Lust and anger are consorts of one another. If you do not curb the lust in the begining it will inevitably bring anger. Story of Vishwamithra Muni did a great tapasya without eating or sleeping for years performing meditation in between fire and ice for years at a time, undisturbed he did not move a limb of his body.

Indhra thought he wants his abode, through Kamadev he send Menaka. Vishwamithra muni got disturbed with little clinging on the bangles. Maya means it is not enjoyable but appears beautiful. In this world thre are two principles that is always bewildereing our mind.
1. Attraction
2. Aversion

BG 18.54
brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
na śocati na kāńkṣati
samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
mad-bhaktiḿ labhate parām

Translation:
One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.


Hankering and lamenting; attraction and aversion are the two sides of the coin. Either one will cripple your spiritual progress. We cannot become devoted if we are attached to material energy. If we are averse they we cannot become devoted to Krishna. Because aversed devotees are fanatic. When Mahraj was new to the movement some brahmacharis say woman are Maya dont look at them we hate them and now everyone them have wife and children. So aversion means that they are attached/attracted and somehow trying to counteract that in an immature way by being averse. But actual elevation means to become indifferent not attractive/not aversed. A certain type of respectful aversion for Maya must be there.

Too much aversion is simply other side of attraction. Therefore in Krishna Consciousness we want to fix our consciousness of Krishna we must be free from aversion and attraction to material energy. Rupa Goswami says a person in this type of consciousness is the highest form of self realisation. Srila Prabupada treated both of these as indifferent. He was aversed to the principle of sense gratification and attached to the principle of sense gratification and attached to the principle of surrender and devotion. By his compassion an mercy the people who was considered as untouchables become powerful vaishnavas. In Chaitanya caritamrta Ramananda Roy was not attracted and not aversed.


How Nara Narayana rishi was such power over the illusory energy and free from any pride and completely satisfied.

BG 18.66

Maya cannot touch a devotee who is surrendered to Krishna

BG 18.65
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māḿ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi satyaḿ te
pratijāne priyo 'si me

TRANSLATION

Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend.

The obstacles impediments comes through Maya, cupids, devatas are to increase the devotion and fasten our way to our destination if we simply remain fixed in devotional service. Always remain in association of devotees and always remain strict in following the regulative principles chanting 16 rounds reading his books and hearing Srimad Bhagavatam always fix in the mood of humble servant, Maya cannot touch those devotees.