Swami Sivananda Vani

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All evil qualities and actions proceed from anger. If you can eradicate anger,

all bad qualities will die by themselves. Anger begets eight kinds of vices:

injustice, rashness, persecution, jealousy, taking possession of others'

property, killing, harsh words and cruelty. When a man's desire is not gratified

and when one stands in the way of its fulfillment, the man becomes angry. The

desire gets transmuted into anger. When one is under the sway of anger, he will

commit all sorts of sinful deeds. He loses his memory; his understanding becomes

clouded; and his intellect gets perverted.