Anger

Krodha — where it comes from, what it destroys — 27 verses, starred ones first.

1. 2.62 ★ Thinking → clinging → craving → anger. The chain of suffering begins in where you let your mind dwell.
2. 2.63 ★ Anger → delusion → memory loss → intellect destroyed → total ruin. Know this chain before it starts.
3. 3.37 ★ The enemy is desire and anger, born of rajas — all-devouring, all-sinful. Know this as your internal enemy.
4. 16.21 ★ Three gates to hell, destructive of the self: kāma, krodha, lobha. Therefore abandon this triad.
5. 6.23 ☆ Yoga is the disconnection from suffering — practise it with firm resolve and a mind that does not despond.
6. 16.2 ☆ More daivī qualities: ahiṃsā, satya, akrodha, tyāga, śānti, apaiśuna, dayā, aloluptva, mārdava, hrī, acāpala.
7. 16.3 ☆ The final daivī qualities: tejas, kṣamā, dhṛti, śauca, adroha, nātimānitā — belonging to one born to divine nature.
8. 1.4 Duryodhana catalogues the Pandava heroes — naming his fears, one by one.
9. 1.8 Duryodhana lists his greatest champions — and every name carries its own tragic irony.
10. 1.12 A grandfather blows his conch to lift a grandson's spirits — love and war entangled.
11. 1.19 The sound of righteous forces pierces the hearts of those who know they are on the wrong side.
12. 1.34 I would rather be killed than kill them — a statement of love that goes beyond self-preservation.
13. 1.45 Better to die with clean hands than to win with blood on them.
14. 2.3 Cast off this petty weakness of heart — rise. This is not who you are.
15. 2.40 No effort on this path is ever wasted — even a little progress protects you from great fear.
16. 2.56 Unmoved in sorrow, ungreedy in joy, free from passion, fear, and anger — that is the steady sage.
17. 4.10 Many, freed from attachment, fear, and anger, purified by knowledge-austerity — have attained My being.
18. 5.23 Withstand desire and anger's force here in this body — that one is yoked, that one is happy.
19. 5.26 For those freed from desire and anger, with controlled minds, knowing the Self — brahma-nirvāṇa exists on all sides.
20. 5.28 With senses, mind and buddhi controlled, free of desire, fear and anger — the liberation-oriented muni is ever-free.
21. 6.9 Who sees friend, foe, stranger, kin, the righteous and the sinner with truly equal eyes — that one excels.
22. 11.24 Sky-touching, blazing, many-hued, mouth wide open, eyes aflame — seeing You, O Viṣṇu, I find no courage and no peace!
23. 13.7 Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the body, consciousness, courage — all this with its modifications is the kṣetra!
24. 16.4 Six āsurī qualities: dambha, darpa, abhimāna, krodha, pāruṣya, ajñāna — all rooted in ego-assertion and ignorance.
25. 16.12 Bound by hundreds of hope-nooses, devoted to kāma and krodha, they hoard wealth by unjust means for sense-enjoyment.
26. 16.18 Taking refuge in ego, power, arrogance, kāma, krodha — they hate Me in their own bodies and in others.
27. 18.53 Releasing ego, power, arrogance, kāma, krodha, possessions — free from mine-ness, tranquil — fit for becoming Brahman.