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and that put you into touch with your psychic consciousness
        again. Sri Ramakrishna was quite right about anger. The hostile
        powers are proof against gentleness and sweetness and non-
        resistance and soul-force, but a current of righteous anger
        often sends them flying.
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        Vindictiveness and Cruelty
            Vindictiveness, with or without a real cause for it, is even
        worse than anger because it is more cold and deliberate in its
        action and less of an impulse. One should be generous in na-
        ture and free from all rancour.
                                     *
        You must get rid of it [cruelty]. Cruelty and falsehood are the
        two things that separate most from the Divine.
                                     *
        Violence
            The Essays on the Gita explain the ordinary karmayoga as
        developed in the Gita, in which the work done is the ordinary
        work of human life with only an inward change. There too the
        violence to be used is not a personal violence done from egois-
        tic motives, but part of the ordered system of social life. Noth-
        ing can spiritually justify individual violence done in anger or
        passion or from any vital motive. In our Yoga our object is to
        rise higher than the ordinary life of man and in it violence has
        to be left aside altogether.
                                     *
        All vital violence in speech or action is rajasic and unyogic. One
        must be master of oneself and controlled in speech and act.
                                                     CWSA 31: 272-77

        Dealing with others
            In all such dealings with others, you should see not only
        your own side of the question but the other side also. There
        should be no anger, vehement reproach or menace, for these


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