Desire
Question
DEAR DHANANJAY
YOU HAVE SAID IN PREVIOUS ANSWER THAT ANGER IS LUST OR LUST IS ANGER AND GIVEN EXAMPLE OF RISHI (VISHAVAMITRA). I WANT TO KNOW THAT SO HOW LAKSHMANJI(LORD RAM BROTHER) HAD MANAGE THE LUST BECAUSE I THING HE WAS VERY ANGRY IN NATURE. I THINK HE HAD BRAHMCHARYA FOR 12 YEARS AND SUCCEED IN KEELING (Meghanaad). SECOND THING IS BOTH RAMJI AND LAKSHMANJI WERE EATING NON-VEG IN THAT TIME ? BECAUSE I HEAR ABOUT THAT.
Answer
1. Both Kama (desire) and Krodha (anger) are the negative manifestations of Prana (vital energy). It is the very same life energy that gets converted into either of these. Hence such indulgence ends in weakness & sorrow. A person who indulges in strong Kama (desire) for anything perceivable by the senses loses that much Pranic energy and eventually ends up irritated and agitated when the senses cannot sate that need (pleasure derieved from the senses itself being Asat [unreal] and imaginary). Such unsated desire then leads to Krodha (anger) which further takes the mind into a state of turmoil and makes man commit serious mistakes.
2. The anger described as regards Lord Lakshman, Lord Rams brother was more a symbol of his intolerance against injustice, untruth etc. Lord Lakshman, being a complete Brahmachari and very spiritually enlightened was above the lower traits such as Kama or Krodha. In mythology where instances of his anger are described, it is to be known that the word anger is used to denote his fiery power against Adharma and not the ordinary anger Krodha.
3. Both Lord Ram & his brother being Kshatriyas (warrior class), their Dharma allowed them to eat meat, as the Dharma of the protectors is to govern and indulge in warfare when necessary. Such activity supports the aggression produced by meat. Thus their food habit was an incidental representation of that class and nothing more.
However, Lord Ram was an avatar of the Almighty himself. Lord Lakshman was himself very enlightened. When such high levels of advancement are reached where a person is above the body and mind, it does not matter what one eats or doesnt. One takes the Sattwa (essence) of whatever eaten and is not subject to gross effects as in case of the common man. Lord Lakshman had the power to stay without food and water for months at a time. Can the normal man do so?
Such enlightened beings do not worry about this kind of food or the other. They eat whatever is available and take its essence or may sometimes not eat at all. The same cannot be said of the common man who is not beyond the needs of his body and becomes a slave to taste & temptation.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)