{"id":11937,"date":"2013-09-27T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11937"},"modified":"2013-09-27T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T11:18:18","slug":"anger-management-workshop-at-iskcon-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11937","title":{"rendered":"Anger Management Workshop at ISKCON Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nBy Divesh Maharaj<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anger is a natural emotion that every human being experiences. Mild forms of human anger may include displeasure or irritation. When we react to frustration, criticism or a threat, we may become angry. Anger may be a secondary response to feeling sad, lonely or frightened. When anger becomes full-blown rage our judgment and thinking becomes impaired and we are more likely to do and say unreasonable and irrational things. Anger is not just a state of mind. It triggers an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and levels of adrenaline. But anger also has survival benefits, and forms part of our fight or flight brain response to a perceived threat or harm.<\/p>\n

When a human or animal decides to take action to stop or confront a threat, anger usually becomes the predominant feeling and takes over our behaviour, cognition and physiology. It is described in the Vedic literature that anger may sometimes be spiritually appropriate if it is provoked by injustices against the Supreme Lord or His devotees. A good example is Hanuman who displayed anger at Ravana for abducting Mother Sita.<\/p>\n

Partha Pratim Das of India presented an anger management workshop at the Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple in Durban, South Africa. Approximately five hundred people attended the programme. Partha Pratim quoted relevant verses from scripture relating to anger: “A person who desires liberation from this material world should not fall under the control of anger because when bewildered by anger one becomes a source of dread for all others.” Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.11.32. He explained that in the age of Kali, people are agitated by the slightest misunderstanding and that unmanaged anger can be dangerous. He screened an amusing video clip on road rage to demonstrate this point. Partha Pratim also presented many appropriate quotes from great personalities: \u201cFor every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind,\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p>\n

He concluded by asking everyone to chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra which he said was a very potent way to overcome angry emotions. He stressed that sincere meditation on the sound vibration of the mantra has a calming effect on the mind and will purify one’s consciousness and will have the effect of eliminating unwanted emotions such as anger. He demonstrated this by playing an audio recording of Srila Prabhupada chanting and asked everyone to concentrate on the sound. After 10 minutes many attendees indicated that they felt calm and relaxed. In his concluding remarks, he again highlighted the potency of chanting in order to purify the consciousness and eradicate anger. He also stressed the importance of following a vegetarian diet which he indicated will also help in controlling anger. Vegetarian foods in the mode of goodness that are offered to Lord Krishna and consumed as prasadam remnants have a deep purifying effect on the consciousness. For further detials, e-mail iskcon.initiatives@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Divesh Maharaj<\/strong><\/p>\n

He concluded by asking everyone to chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra which he said was a very potent way to overcome angry emotions. He stressed that sincere meditation on the sound vibration of the mantra has a calming effect on the mind and will purify one’s consciousness and will have the effect of eliminating unwanted emotions such as anger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}