In the celebrated Adhyaatma Ramayanam Kilippattu by the father of Malayalam Language,, Thunjathu Ramanujan Ezhuthassan, there is an incident where Lakshmana the younger brother of Rama is overboard with rage and is readying himself to take arms against his own father Dasharatha who had decreed that the noble Rama should be denied the kingdom and that Rama should live in forest for 14 years.. Lord Rama himself reasons with the impetuous younger brother Lakshmana and manages to calm him down.. The advise of Rama to Lakshmana is a masterpiece in Malayalam literature.
മുക്തിക്കു വിഘ്നം വരുത്തുവാനെത്രയും
ശക്തിയുള്ളൊന്നതിൽ ക്രോധമറികെടോ
മാതാപിത്രുഭ്രാത്രുമിത്രസഖികളെ
ക്രോധം നിമിത്തം ഹനിക്കുന്നിതു പുമാൻ
ക്രോധമൂലം മനസ്താപമുണ്ടായ് വരും
ക്രോധമൂലം നൃണാം സംസാരബന്ധനം
ക്രോധമല്ലോ നിജ ധർമ്മക്ഷയകരം
ക്രോധം പരിത്യജിക്കേണം ബുധജനം
ക്രോധമല്ലോ യമനായതു നിർണ്ണയം
My lovely brother Lakshmana,
Rage is capable of terminating all our efforts for good life on this earth with our aim to finally reach Moksham or emancipation..
A man in rage may even slay his own father, mother, brother and friends,,,
Through rage one will lose all mental peace. Anger will bind people to the miseries of the worldly life.
Being in anger is the sign that a person has been drained of all the accumulated dharma or virtue in the world and the other world..
A wise man should definitely abandon anger.
Verily, anger is the same as the God of Death Yama..
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