Stop that anger!

Yesterday, I received a tragic story that i hope all of us can learn from.

One day, a man looked at his brand new car with pride. He had bought a very beautiful powerful car and its gleaming surface won his admiration. He had just put on a new well-made number plate. With a screw-driver in one hand and a wrench in another, he stood up to see how such a plate would enhance the appearance of his car.

Just then, his five year old son ran towards the car, took up a stone and scratched the side of his car.

On seeing that, the man became very angry, ran to the child, caught his hand and hit it many, many times in uncontrollable rage, not realising that he was hitting his own child with a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost his five fingers, the bones of the five fingers fractured and broken beyond repair. Doctors could not do anything but amputate the five fingers of the child.

When the child saw his father after the amputation, painfully, with tears in his eyes, he asked his father,"Dad, when will my fingers grow back?"

The shocked man was so sad and so mad at himself that he speechlessly went away to his car. In his frustration, devastated by his thoughtless action, he kicked the car a good number of times. Exhausted and with no reprieve from his agony, he sat down beside his car and cried.

As he cried he looked at the scratches his son had made, the son who had just learned how to write merely a few months ago. The words scratched on the car stared out at him. It read: Love you dad.

Truth dawned on him. He had thrown his anger with such vehemence on one who loves him so much.

The poor man could not forgive himself. He committed suicide.

And it was all because of anger. Anger blinded that man to the great love of his
son.

Can you see how damaging, how destructive anger can be? For that man, it hurt his loving son, it lowered his self-respect, it destroyed his life. Was the car important enough to save his life? Can any expensive car be as worthy as our loving child and his love? Can any car be worthy of anyone's life? Never! No, for it was merely an expensive object. It can never ever replace love. Can Should we allow anger to ruin our lives?

So, those who still could not control their anger must learn to do so. as long as anger is allowed to control us and our actions, tragedy can happen and none of us can be safe. Let us master our anger.

And if anyone were to say that he/she does not know how, learn to do so with the help of knowledge and the power of the breath through The Art of Living. There is a centre near you as The Art of Living has reached more than one hundred and forty countries throughout the world.

As we can see, love and anger has no limits. Anger destroy lives and love beautifies them.