Theme · 11 verses

Krodha in the Bhagavad Gita

Krodha is anger; Krishna traces it back to desire and shows how it leads to delusion, lost memory and ruin (2.62-63).

From desire comes frustration. From frustration comes krodha — the anger that clouds the intellect and makes clear action impossible. The Gita's teaching on anger is almost clinical: understand its origin, and the grip loosens.