Four steps through the Bhagavad Gita on anger, read in order: how attachment becomes anger, what anger does to the mind, and what steadies it.

Step 1

Bhagavad Gita 2.62–63

ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते। सङ्गात् संजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते ॥

dhyāyato viṣhayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣhūpajāyate saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate ||

When one thinks of objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment, desire is born; from desire, anger arises.

क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः। स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ॥

krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati ||

Anger leads to delusion, which causes loss of memory; this, in turn, leads to the destruction of discrimination, resulting in destruction.

Krishna names a chain: thinking of an object, attachment, desire, anger. Then a second chain: anger, delusion, loss of memory, loss of discrimination. Ask where, in your own anger, the chain began.

Step 2

Bhagavad Gita 2.64–65

रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन्। आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ॥

rāga-dveṣha-viyuktais tu viṣhayān indriyaiśh charan ātma-vaśhyair-vidheyātmā prasādam adhigachchhati ||

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects with the senses restrained and free from attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते। प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते ॥

prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ hānir asyopajāyate prasanna-chetaso hyāśhu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣhṭhate ||

In that peace, all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.

The same chapter gives the other side. The one who moves among objects free from attraction and repulsion attains peace, and in that peace the intellect steadies. Ask what you are attracted to or pushing away in this situation.

Step 3

Bhagavad Gita 3.37

श्री भगवानुवाच काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः। महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम् ॥

śhrī bhagavān uvācha kāma eṣha krodha eṣha rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśhano mahā-pāpmā viddhyenam iha vairiṇam ||

The Blessed Lord said, "It is desire and it is anger, both of the quality of Rajas, all-devouring and all-sinful; know this as the foe here in this world."

In the verse before this one (3.36), Arjuna asks what compels a person to commit sin. Here Krishna answers: desire and anger, both of the quality of Rajas. Ask whether the anger is serving you or driving you.

Step 4

Bhagavad Gita 16.21

त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः। कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ॥

tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśhanam ātmanaḥ kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet ||

There are three gates to this hell, destructive of the self: lust, anger, and greed; therefore, one should abandon these three.

Chapter 16 lists lust, anger and greed as three gates, and says to abandon the three. Ask which gate you are standing at today.