“Anger is the worst sin according to Him…”

HH Shri Mataji – Guru Puja, Cabella 1994

Jai Shri Mataji!

It is becoming evident that Sahaja Yogis in Australia, and across the world, are being affected by anger, even making some do things that are highly out of character for a Sahaja Yogi. It develops within from various sources. It is sometimes uncontrollable. It is sometimes unrecognised. It is sometimes mentally justified.

Regardless of the source, its meaning or its purpose, it is extremely destructive to the individual, those around them and for Sahaja Yoga. When anger is involved, the only thing that benefits is negativity.

Let’s put aside any perceived conflicts, the beliefs that we may have and the beliefs that others have and give Banhans – let’s put our divine attention on dissolving this feeling for ourselves and for each and every Sahaja Yogi in Australia and in the world.

HH Shri Mataji has given us all the tools and methods to solve any issue, conflict, hurdle or challenge. It is time for us to let go of our feelings, thoughts and ideas, truly surrender our ego and superego, and be one with our Mother, HH Shri Mataji whom each and every one of us are part of.

We offer guidance below from HH Shri Mataji’s 1994 Guru Puja lecture where She addresses the source of any anger within ourselves.

“Anger is the worst sin according to Him…”

“Krishna, of course, said it very clearly that “krodhat bhavati samnoha” – is krodh is the worst thing, anger is the worst sin according to Him, from – only from anger everything comes out. But He didn’t say how the anger comes in. He didn’t talk about it that the source of anger was your liver, and also your upbringing. These two things give you horrible anger. Unless and until you witness yourself, your realization has no meaning. You should separate yourself from yourself, and see for yourself what is really wrong with you. Now supposing somebody is a very hot-tempered person, instead of taking pride in it or using that temper to control others, he should try to control himself. How? First is the krodha. Anybody who wants to be a saint should know that anger, this krodha, should have no place. And how do you do it? You first of all witness yourself how you behave. For example, I would say artificially you become angry, artificially, and stand before the mirror. See your face, how you look like. You’ll be surprised, looks like a face of a monkey or a tiger, or I don’t know what animal you must have been in last life. And then you are amazed that you are still carrying the traces of that previous life that was whatever was the animal. Then the second thing would be, take out the anger upon yourself. As we have in Sahaja Yoga, we write down our own names and beat it.

But it is, should be that if you get angry with yourself, then you will see that you have won over your anger. Because angry people only torture others, they don’t torture themselves. Of course sometimes they feel bad, later on they feel “I should not have done this,” they develop a left Vishuddhi. But, mainly if you start getting angry with yourself – “Why should I have done this? Why did I do this?” “Why should I get tempted to this?” – you’ll be surprised, your temper will go down. And also physically you should see you have a liver problem. With that you just face yourself and tell that “I’m going to get rid of this liver problem. How dare it become my enemy and stop my ascent in spirituality.” So the first, the witness state has to be developed. For a Sahaja yogi is very important to develop a witness state. But normally what happens that Sahaja yogis develop a witness state for others. Now you know in Sahaja Yoga the door is open to everyone; and some mad people also walk in, some funny people also walk in, some very bad-charactered people also walk in, all kinds of things happen. So now you should see, what are you worried about? Are you worried about people who have problems, who are no good, for whom you cannot say that they’ll be Sahaja yogis; or you are enjoying the people who have got Sahaja Yoga? This temper sometimes has made people really mad, I tell you, can go into your head and can make you mad; and we have some mad people in Sahaja Yoga, we have still. But they have become so mad that now they are no more angry, they are no more troublesome, they are just mad, that’s all. For such people you shouldn’t worry. There’s no need to witness others – witness yourself.

And I sometimes feel that anger comes through too much austerity, too much of extreme nature also. Some Sahaja yogis are extremely austere, austere about everything. It’s maddening. In Sahaja Yoga there is, everything is Sahaj, it’s spontaneous. You are not to be austere. You should not be particular.”

HH Shri Mataji – 1994 Shri Guru Puja, Cabella