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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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We can give up anger only when you are Kṛṣṇa conscious. Otherwise it is not possible. So long we are after our own sense gratification, it is not possible to give up lust and anger. It is not possible. Simply . . . when you are . . . when . . . why Lord Jesus Christ was able to forgive them? Because he was engaged in God's service. Therefore he was able. So it is such a thing. Sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ (SB 5.18.12).
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[[Vanisource:660831 - Lecture BG 05.22-29 - New York|660831 - Lecture BG 05.22-29 - New York]]
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Actually we can be free from this anger and lust when we are actually in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kāma-krodha-vimuktānāṁ yatīnāṁ yata-cetasām. Yatīnām. Therefore great sages, one who is able to give up this kāma, the lust and anger, they are called great sages. Kṣamā-rūpa-tapasvīnām. Tapasvī, one who is . . . who are sages, their duty is they always forgive.

They forgive any enemy. Just like you have got very nice example, Lord Jesus Christ. He was being crucified, but he forgave all the persons who were engaged in crucifying him. He prayed Lord, "O my Lord, these people do not know what they are doing." So this is, I mean to say, the signs of great sages. They are not, I mean to say, angry. So kāma-krodha.

So angry . . . we can give up anger only when you are Kṛṣṇa conscious. Otherwise it is not possible. So long we are after our own sense gratification, it is not possible to give up lust and anger. It is not possible. Simply . . . when you are . . . when . . . why Lord Jesus Christ was able to forgive them? Because he was engaged in God's service. Therefore he was able. So it is such a thing. Sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]).

One who is actually Kṛṣṇa conscious, automatically all the good qualities overtake him without any separate endeavor. So:

:kāma-krodha-vimuktānāṁ
:yatīnāṁ yata-cetasām
:abhito brahma-nirvāṇaṁ
:vartate viditātmanām
:([[Vanisource:BG 5.26 (1972)|BG 5.26]])
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