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things only raise anger and retort on the other side. I write this
because you are trying to rise above yourself and dominate
your vital and when one wants to do that, one cannot be too
strict with oneself in these things. It is best even to be severe
to one's own mistakes and charitable to the mistakes of others.
CWSA 29: 280

Anger and the Psychic
If the will is strong enough, it [anger] can be held in check —
but usually it is only if the psychic being becomes entirely awake
and governs the vital that the tendency to anger can entirely
disappear.
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When it is the psychic that rules all the movements of the be-
ing, then it [anger] completely disappears and when the equa-
nimity of the higher consciousness takes complete possession
of the lower vital. Till then one can establish a control, diminish
and reduce it to a touch that has no outward effect or a wave
that passes without self-expression.
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That [inner detachment] is the right thing that must happen al-
ways when anger or anything else rises. The psychic reply must
become habitual pointing out that anger is neither right nor
helpful and then the being must draw back from these outward
things and take its stand in its inner self, detach from all these
things and people. It is this detachment that is the first thing
that must be gained by the sadhak — he must cease to live
in these outward things and live in his inner being. The more
that is done the more there is a release and peacefulness. Af-
terwards when one is secure in this inner being, the right thing
to do, the right way to deal with men and things will begin to
come.
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