Chapter 17: Anger

The path to freedom from suffering requires releasing anger, pride, and attachments to name, form, and possessions.

True mastery is demonstrated by one who restrains rising anger like a skilled driver controls a rolling chariot.

Evil can be overcome through three counteracting virtues: answering anger with love, evil with good, and greed with liberality.

Following truth, resisting anger, and practicing generosity constitute three steps that bring one near to the gods.

Those who refrain from injury and maintain bodily control reach the unchangeable place of Nirvana where suffering ends.

Constant vigilance, day and night study, and striving after Nirvana lead to the cessation of passions.

An old teaching states that everyone faces blame regardless of whether they remain silent, speak much, or speak little.

Neither universal blame nor universal praise has ever existed, exists now, or will exist in the future.

Those whom the discerning continuously praise as blameless, wise, and virtuous are honored even by gods and Brahman, like gold.

One must be cautious about anger expressed through the body and cultivate bodily virtue to overcome bodily sins.

One must guard against angry speech and cultivate virtuous use of the tongue to overcome sins of speech.

One must be vigilant against mental anger and cultivate virtue in thought to overcome sins of the mind.

True wisdom consists in controlling body, tongue, and mind simultaneously, achieving complete self-governance.