[Advaita-l] [advaitin] My Interview to Doordarshan News Vartavali

[Jaishankar Narayanan]

Namaste Sunil ji,

Pujya Swami Dayananda ji used to show first how anger is not a willful
action. So advising someone not to get angry is useless. It may make the
person more angry. One has to find the root cause and address it. Sometimes
it is sub-conscious and so difficult to process.

Regarding marriage being an obstacle to spiritual life - it depends on
one's partner and their interests. Fortunately my wife also was a
student of Vedanta in the same course in which I studied. Pujya Swami ji
arranged our wedding and even attended the function. We also had a clear
idea about the kind of life we wanted to lead after marriage. So it became
a vehicle to grow emotionally and spiritually.

with love and prayers,
Jaishankar

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 11:38 AM sunil bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Jaishankarji,
>
> It was very nice to hear your very interesting talk and the listeners have
> marvelled at your life history and becoming an advaitin through the great
> teacher Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji. Many years ago, I had the opportunity
> of hearing Swamiji, addressing a group, and he bagan his talk about how to
> control one's anger. At first he showed that one cannot become angry
> how-much-ever one wishes / tries, unless one gets provoked. Thus he showed
> that the best way to control anger is not to get provoked, the provocations
> being  an external entity. His presentation was wonderful. I am sure you
> did not get tied up by marriage, before meeting Swamiji.
>
> Here, kindly permit me to address our friend Bhaskarji also, who felt as if
> the married life was a sort of obstacle for spiritual life. I don't think
> so. Brahmarshi Vasishtha was a married man so was the sage Yajnavalkya and
> marriage need not be a hurdle in spiritual life. The householder's also
> have great responsibilities in worldly life and the scriptures also held
> the married life in very high esteem.
>
> JAi Shri Krishnajiki
> Sunil K.Bhattacharjya
>
>