*Chapter 1 - Introduction*

*Day 3*

Let us not hate each other. What can really block your progress is hatred. I In a classroom a student is sitting and listening to the talk or lecture, but in the mind he is hateful of the friend sitting in the same classroom, his mind starts reeling only on that issue and not on the topic or subject of that lecture.

Often you start hating the people you love. You fall in love and fall out of love from the person whom you loved so much, because your love is all about getting something from them. The moment you stop getting from them you start hating them. 

Anyone who gives you some much pleasure may sometimes give you pain. Because you think that the person is giving you pleasure, you want to hold on to them. 

And when you cannot hold on to them you start hating them. Isn't this happening all over the world? That is why people start killing the people they love so much because the pain of suffering or of hatred overtakes love.

Then there is no way you can get close to Divine. It is hatred which is the stumbling block. Why would the Master say," let us not hate each other, you better not hate anybody" - this is a sermon. 

Why would he say that? Because a student cannot understand that there is a state where hatred does not exist at all. He thinks of everything from His own experience. 

Someone who has been in the tropics or in the desert all the time cannot understand how somebody can be in the igloo house up in the north pole. 

They cannot understand that one who cannot swim cannot understand how people can fall in water and come out of it. Our biggest doubt is whether I am being loved or not." Does God love me? "

This is self doubt we don't love ourselves. When we hate everybody else then in some way we also start hating ourselves. Hatred begins right from where we are. Gita is an Upanishad. 

Lord Krishna sitting with Arjuna and telling him, "You are so dear to me that is why I am telling you this. It is a secret knowledge that I am telling you." So, here in the Upanishads the same thing is said, “Look we will not hate. Drop the hatred”. 

Because hatred is spoiling you, it is killing you. Forget about the other. Someone can come and kindle hatred in you and they are happy and enjoying themselves, but you are suffering. 

Cultivating, nurturing and justifying hatred within oneself is utter foolishness. When there is hatred in mind you don't see things the way they are. You think the way you see is how the things are. 

You justify your stand, your anger and your feelings. You justify and intellect will say, "Yes I am correct, that person is wrong. He has no right to live. He should be taught a lesson." So first, you need to learn a lesson. 

All those who need to learn a lesson keep saying that they are going to teach a lesson to somebody and that is why they are doing what they are doing. That's a pitiable condition and they need sympathy. So the teacher says, "Let us not hate each other. Let us not hate anybody".