When your expectations are not fulfilled, that is the situation you call anger. Your expectation is nothing but a desire that the other person should behave according to your image of him. You create images because you are afraid. If you are not afraid, you cannot be angry. All these diseases come from a basic fountainhead — ignorance. They go away once ignorance goes away.
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Questioner: What is anger?
Acharya Prashant: Something happens, you get angry. We are looking at that event very very closely. Something happens and you get angry. Let’s give the whole thing a shape, a name, a face.
A stranger comes to you and says, “You are stupid,” and he says this in front of many people.
A friend on whom you rely, a friend whom you trust, he comes to you in front of twenty people and says, “You are stupid.” And you have great trust in that friend, you have great belief in that friend.
When would you be angry? When are you likely to be angry? When are you likely to feel hurt, when the friend says this or when the stranger says this? The stranger is a nobody, you do not know him; just somebody. He has just come, said, and gone. When are you likely to feel hurt?
