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that arises within?
Dadashri: After this Gnan, anger never arises for You at
all. The taanto (the prolonged feeling of grudge that continues
linked with a conflict) that remains in the non-Self is what we
consider as anger. There is no taanto (link of grudge) that
remains after attaining the Gnan. Now there is only ‘residual
fieriness (ugrata),’ and that is the attribute of the subatomic
particles (parmanus).
After attaining this Gnan, anger, pride, deceit and greed all
go away. If this man gets angry (krodh), someone else may say,
‘He was just irritated (gusso).’ I would tell him that there is a
difference between krodh and gusso. Gusso is a paudgalik
thing, meaning it is of the non-Self. Krodh (anger) is where there
is a coming together of both the non-Self and the Self, where
one becomes the non-Self. What is the difference between gusso
and krodh? In krodh there is a violent intent (himsak bhaav)
behind it. This man here does not have a violent intent. He may
exhibit gusso (anger without violent intent) but he is doing
pratikraman at the same time. Do you do that or not? He is
constantly doing pratikraman.
He does not have taanto (link of grudge). What does
taanto mean? It means that if you had a disagreement the night
before, the next morning you will hear tea cups banging and
doors of the cupboards in the kitchen slamming!
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People of the world have live anger (sajiv krodh), whereas
You (Self-realized) have dead anger (nirjiv krodh). But with
whose nimit does this dead anger occur? The poor man does
incur some damage, does he not?
Difference between Krodh and Gusso
If there is a taanto (continued grudge linked with a certain
disagreement) and violent intent (himsak bhaav), it is called
krodh, it is called pride (maan), it is called greed (lobh). It is