spirituality

The first step of spirituality to control your five vices – kaam, krodh, lobh, moh and ahankaar i.e. desire, anger, greed, attachment and ego.
Once I was meditating and thoughts flashed over my mind. If these are said to be vices so why God has created them. Then the reply came from it was - God has created every thing for our help. Our misuse to them makes them vice. Yes, it is true. Then, after meditation, I confirmed this message through Vedic books and got the answer. Then I went deeply into it and learnt that Kaam i.e. desire is mostly meant this word as sex [because in Sanskrit one word has many meanings and you have to take according to the reference to the text] – here in vedic texts it was taken as desire and it covers mostly all of the things that you desire. Desire is taken as vice when we misinterpret the use of it. the emotion of kama i.e desire was created to make us to do something. Desire is the first step of karma. According to Upanishads-
"You are what your deepest desire is;
As you desire, so is your intention;
As your intention, so is your will;
As is your will so is your deed;
As is your deed, so is your destiny"

Therefore, if your desires are good and controlled then your destiny is also going to be great. And how to discriminate between good and bad is to just listen to your inner soul i.e. atman- if you are overhearing it – then it is going to sleep deep underneath. Wake it up and listen to it – you will find it as your best and close friend who will guide you much better than anyone else.
I will discuss other parts later on -first read the excerpt below that will help you to divert krodh i.e. anger. I got this from another missionary and want to share it with you which will certainly help to control and concentrate your high energy- that runs as anger in your mind- in a constructive way.

Taming Your Anger
"If you are angry, don't sin by nursing your grudge. Don't let the sun go down with you still angry—get over it quickly; for when you are angry, you give a mighty foothold to the Devil."

Your test seems to indicate that you have some buried anger," said the counselor to his client. "Do you think this could be true?" he asked.

"Me! Angry? Certainly not," replied the client. "I'll punch you in the nose for saying that!"

When it comes to anger we all have a tiger of sorts within. At times it provides great courage and motivation. It causes some of us to lash out and hurt others. At other times we are so afraid it will get out of control we bury it so that nobody, including ourselves, will ever know it exists.

Many of us were taught that anger is bad and to show it is immature. The mature person, however, doesn't deny his anger. He has learned to express it in appropriate ways.

Even though some people never show their anger, everybody gets angry sometimes. Anger is a God-given emotion. Of itself it is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong. It's what we do with it and how we handle it that counts.

In fact, there are many things we ought to be angry about, such as social injustice, child abuse, greed, and even legalistic religion that makes rules more important than people and keeps people in needless bondage.

Jesus was very angry with the religious people of his day for this very reason. When he healed a man on the Sabbath, the Pharisees were so furious they plotted to kill him. To them, religious observances were more important than the needs of people. We read that Jesus "looked around at them in anger…distressed at their stubborn hearts."

Think too of Florence Nightingale. She was very angry about the terrible conditions suffered by wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. She used her anger creatively to bring about major changes in nursing care. This is a creative and healthy use of anger.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to so live that I will always recognize and resolve my negative emotions as quickly as possible, and do so in creative and helpful ways—and never ever become bitter or nurse grudges.
You can also use the Vedic mantra given below to minimize your anger:
Recite this mantra for 21 times and after the recitation of each mantra every time just blow into the water. Like this do it for 21 times. And then sprinkle the water three times on the face. You will observe that your anger is vanished and you would be cool down.
"OM SHANTE PARSHANTE MAMA KRODH PASHNEEN SWAHA"