--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > --- cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > snip
> >
> > > Cardmeister,
> > > > do you know what the sanskrit word is that is
> > > being
> > > > translated as "anger" in English?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think it's "krodha".
> > >
> > > 1 krodha m. anger , wrath , passion VS. xxx , 14 AV.
> > > S3Br. &c. ;
> > > (ifc. f. %{A}) Amar. ; Anger (personified as a child
> > > of Lobha and
> > > Nikr2iti ; or of Death ; or of Brahma1) VP. ; N. of
> > > a Da1nava MBh.
> > > i , 2543 Hariv. ; of the mystic syllable %{hum} or
> > > %{hrUM} , Ra1mat
> > > Up. ; (%{A}) f. N. of one of the thirteen daughters
> > > of Daksha and
> > > wife of Kas3yapa MBh. i , 2520 Hariv. ; (%{I}) f.
> > > (in music) N. of a
> > > S3ruti ; (%{am}) n. N. of the fifty-ninth year of
> > > the sixty years "'
> > > Br2ihaspati cycle VarBr2S.
> >
> > "Krodha"- what would the roots be?
>
> if my memory serves, Maharishi talks about anger as being a
> destructive force, the great destroyer. He says it flames up when
> two forces are in opposition to one another. Sounds natural enough.
> I don't detect anything unnatural or 'unenlightened' about using
> that force appropriately.
>
> Perhaps it is expressed in the Gita as an instruction to Arjuna to
> not use it as an instrument of the ignorant mind?
FWIW, I think this might be one of the most dramatic
appearences of "krodha" ("krodho" is sandhi for "krodhaH"
before a short 'a' which disappears: krodhaH + abhijaayate
=> krodho 'bhijaayate; "krodhaad" is ablative singular: "from
krodha") in BG:
dhyaayato viSayaan puMsaH sangas teSu upajaayate .
sangaat sañjaayate kaamaH kaamaat krodho 'bhijaayate .. 2\-62..
krodhaad bhavati sammohaH sammohaat smRti-vibhramaH .
smRti-bhraMshaad buddhi-naasho buddhinaashaat praNashyati .. 2\-63..
Maharishi's translation:
Pondering on objects of the senses,
a man develops attachment for them;
from attachment springs up desire,
and desire gives rise to anger.
>From anger arises delusion; from delusion
unsteadiness of memory; from unsteadiness
of memory destruction of the intellect;
through the destruction fo the intellect
he perishes.
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