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anger can become an irrelevance but it takes the collectivity. Ultimately we must transform
considerable patience and perseverance. the anger of humanity. Only the individual
is capable of doing this and only the Truth
If anger is to be reversed we have to stay very can heal.
attentive and awake. That means we have to
remain aligned to our Truth. When we aren’t, Most of all, one must never give up. These
anger can easily intrude. A simple call may movements of nature can indeed be reversed.
be enough. There is no reason for anger to A fatalistic attitude won’t help. We must always
appear when we are in the right consciousness. remember that we are much greater than our
Inevitably the connection will recede but we nature. Nature doesn’t define us; only the
need to learn to pick up the thread immediately. Truth can do that. These wrong movements
The consciousness must never be allowed to go only cloud our Truth. When every wrong
to sleep. Only the nature is allowed its rest. If movement is turned to right and when every
anger comes we must be ready for it. We don’t wrong movement including anger is reversed,
look for it in isolation but we must be prepared the vaster work of transformation will surely
for a wrong movement at any given moment. unfold.
When this movement comes the consciousness
will be ready to process and transform it. When References
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The aim is to make this process simultaneous
and spontaneous. The moment anger appears, 2. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 10. 2 ed.
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its cause and only the consciousness has the
capacity to decipher it. Once the cause is 3. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 4; 2003,
realised, anger is expunged because this p. 74.
knowledge truly heals. We might have to
go through many layers before reaching the 4. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 8; 2003, p. 22.
root. Truly, we are not doing the saadhanaa for
ourselves but to collaborate in the Mother’s 5. The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 5; 2003,
Work. We must bear and reverse the anger of p. 361.

James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.

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