SiraatGita Guidance For
क्रोधित
The Bhagavad Gita speaks to every state of the heart. Sit with these verses — read slowly, and let them meet you where you are.
Anger rarely arrives alone; this verse traces it back to the quiet brooding where it began, so you can meet it earlier next time.
ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते। सङ्गात् संजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते।।2.62।।
dhyāyato viṣhayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣhūpajāyate saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
— Swami Swarupananda
Krishna maps how anger clouds judgment step by step — and naming the storm is often the first move in walking out of it.
क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः। स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति।।2.63।।
krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati
From anger comes delusion, and from delusion loss of memory. From loss of memory comes the ruin of discrimination, and from the ruin of discrimination he perishes.
— Swami Swarupananda
Heat and cold, insult and praise — they come and go like seasons, and this verse invites you to let them pass without taking root.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः। आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत।।2.14।।
mātrā-sparśhās tu kaunteya śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino ’nityās tans-titikṣhasva bhārata
Notions of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure, are born, O son of Kunti, only of the contact of the senses with their objects. They have a beginning and an end. They are impermanent in their nature. Bear them patiently, O descendant of Bharata.
— Swami Swarupananda
By calling anger a gate rather than a wall, this verse reminds you that you can simply decline to walk through it.
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः।कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्।।16.21।।
tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśhanam ātmanaḥ kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet
Triple is this gate of hell, destructive of the self,—lust, anger and greed; therefore one should forsake these three.
— Swami Swarupananda