{"id":87605,"date":"2020-07-18T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87605"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:15:18","slug":"anger-in-the-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87605","title":{"rendered":"Anger in the Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n \t \tdocument.location = \"https:\/\/gitawisdom.org\/anger-in-the-gita\/\";\n \t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vbQEp3g.jpg \"\/><strong>By Yogesvara dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Bhagavad Gita has something to say about anger\u2014two \u201csomethings\u201d that seem to contradict one another. One is shockingly violent. In a startlingly passage (2.32) Sri Krishna tells Arjuna that when there is a chance for righteous battle, \u201chappy are the warriors to whom such fighting opportunities come unsought, opening for them the doors of the heavenly planets\u201d\u2014essentially advising Arjuna to prepare to die. Krishna proceeds to say that He Himself takes up the call to fight (4.8) when there is a decline of religious principles and a rise of irreligion. At such time, He comes &#8220;to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants.&#8221; He follows this (4.42) by making it painfully clear to Arjuna that, however long they may discuss the matter, He expects Arjuna to \u201cstand and fight.\u201d As if to underscore the seriousness of His expectations, He goes so far as to warn Arjuna that if he fails to show the righteous anger needed to enter into battle, he will \u201cincur sin for neglecting [his] duties and thus lose [his] reputation as a fighter.\u201d (2.33)   <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87605","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=87605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87608,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87605\/revisions\/87608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}