kopam sheshena purayet... When someone is unable to react rationally, they cover it up by expressing rage. Perhaps, this comes under the category of 'impotent' rage.shiv wrote: Shaashtanga. In fact rage comes across as the statement of a napunsak, and when you go back to normality after that, your rant will be seen as the outer limit of your ability to react and can only be mocked. So when one is impotent, rage is the worst possible reaction.
Have you looked at the thread I started in the hijab-foreplay forum? When you take a population and convince them that they are the worst, the lowest and the least, impotent rage is about as far as they can go and the talk is "revenge revenge revenge" to a degree that is not practicable, and the inability to take that revenge is seen as further proof of napunsakness of th "worst, lowest and least" people of the world. That is where you are headed. No personal insult is intended.
There is another type of rage: Sri Rama is described as having mastered the ire and yet, we are also told that when His warrior wrath is provoked, even the Gods would tremble. This is an example of righteous and potent rage. More importantly, controlled rage used as a tool.
When the Draupadi was being insulted in the court of Dhritarashtra after the game of dice, Bhima was enraged. He talked of violent revenge to a degree that it seemed not practicable. He was, technically, a slave of Duryodhana and yet he talked of killing him and his brother. Those outbursts could be categorised as impotent rage. But 13 years later, Bhima fulfilled his vow.
So, the essential point is that if one can stay in control even when enraged and if one can carry out in deed one's enraged threats, then such an anger cannot be impotent. Such a person will be feared. Anger is deadly when it stops one from thinking.
If someone never feels angry, no matter what, then he must be a gyani or a very base man. A person must hold something dear enough to get enraged. Whether it is potent or impotent is determined by whether the person can carry out the threat...