168. Niṣkrodhā
The Devi has no anger. She kills, but does not kill in anger. An action-oriented desire frustrated from achieving its purpose becomes anger. There are two ways of overcoming anger:
- The first way is to eliminate the action-oriented desire and to give it a mental orientation so that he possibility of frustration is eliminated. Since there is no frustration, there can be no anger flowing from it.
- The second solution is to eliminate desire itself. This is burning the root of the problem of anger. Sages achieved this after long and hard practice. It is easy for some people to do this but it is extremely difficult for some others to do this.
As long as one sees, hears or interacts with the world through any sensory channel, so long do desire after desire keep on coming one after the other, unendingly like waves of the sea. It is only natural that the desires belong to the nature. Let Her satisfy them then.
Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript
(an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)
