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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.
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You must get rid of it [cruelty]. Cruelty and falsehood are the
two things that separate most from the Divine.
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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.
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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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