Sadhvi Vishrut Vibha
Victory Over Anger
Once upon a time, there lived four brothers named, Vasudeva, Baldeva, Satyka and Daaruk. They decided to go into a forest for horse riding. Their horses were very swift so they reached there by dusk. Except Daaruk, all went to sleep under the shade of a huge tree. Suddenly ‘anger’ came in the form of a demon and said, “I am hungry and these three sleeping men will satisfy my hunger.” Daaruk fought against the demon ‘Anger’ but was unsuccessful and furious, even the demon was burning with anger. By this end of the first ‘prahara’, the demon killed Daaruk.
Satyka lost his life in the second ‘prahara’ and Baldeva also lay lifeless at the end of the third ‘prahara’. Throughout the fight, the demon proved to have an upper hand. He showed that he was stronger than the three, whom he had killed.
During the fourth ‘prahara’, Vasudeva woke up. The demon challenged Vasudeva to fight with him. When both started fighting with each other, the demon showed his powerful skills but Vasudeva intelligently remarked, “How powerful you are! Your strength is endless like an ocean.” As the demon heard these words, his anger began to subside and at the end of the fourth ‘prahara’, the demon became powerless. Vasudeva then picked him up and threw him aside.
When draw broke, Vasudeva saw that his three brothers had been killed by the demon ‘Anger’. It was then that Vasudeva realized that ‘Anger’ disguised in the form of a demon had fought with him and unlike his brothers, he had won over ‘it’ by the virtue of peace and forbearance.
