How to deal with fear,
How to deal with anger.
There are specific remedies given in Advaita.
But it's not very different from what I'm explaining to you.
You have to just give the power to the knowingness again and again.
Notice that buried under your layers of anger is that soft quiet knowingness which is untouched.
Our problem is we don't face our anger.
Our problem is that we don't want to face these layers of emotion which is buried in us and everybody has a different emotion which becomes the big ghost and sits on your head.
Some people have fear as a weakness,
Some people have anger as a weakness,
Some people have a sense of lack or sadness as a weakness.
It doesn't matter what these emotions are Advaita says.
These are just top layers,
Just top layers and these are fake layers of the ego.
The more you start seeing from that knowingness you will know oh it's just pretending,
The ego is just pretending,
Bringing up an excuse to start this fight right now.
You will start becoming very aware,
Very aware provided you continue the practice.
It's not even a real practice.
It's just being in the knowingness.
Yeah it's very easy to win over your emotions with the open-eyed kind of practice than with closing your eyes,
Sitting for 20 minutes,
Feeling very calm,
Very nice in 20 minutes.
Mind is very calm and you get up,
You open your eyes and what has your kids done?
Thrown all books and pencils and stuff into the middle of the room and finished all your peace and calmness gone.
Out of the window.
Advaita says that does not work.
You have to learn to find that calmness within,
Buried under your layers of anger.
It is right there at the bottom.
That knowingness,
You yourself told me,
It is very peaceful.
There is nothing there.
There is no raga,
No duhesha.
There is no excitement,
No depression.
It is an absolute peace devoid of emotion.
It is buried under those layers of whatever your predominant emotion is.
So you recognize that layer by layer you have to just go in and separate them out and find that peace and then be there.
Next time you will notice that the anger will have a shorter duration.
After some time it will become even shorter and a point will come when it will just be like line or water.
But now don't expect this to happen overnight.
You have to again and again be in the knowingness for that.
Only when you are in the knowingness in happy times can you do it when the times are not so pleasant.
