Love-Hate triangle
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September 8, 2012
Universal emotions, such as love and hatred, are called saarvabhoumya. Whomever you think as your enemy, again and again, sit with them and express your opinions about what you carry towards them and vice versa. One funny thing you will realize, whom you think as an important enemy in your life may not think you are an important enemy in his life! I have seen love and hatred is always a triangle. If you love someone, that person loves somebody else.
If you hate someone, that person hates someone else. It is never a straight line. It is a law. A is in love with B, B will be in love with C, and C will be in love with A.
Same way with hatred. A may have hatred with B, but B with C, and C may be having enmity with A. Please understand, it is a law.
Another example is, you are in love with somebody and constantly go towards that person. Suddenly, you realize that person is going towards somebody else. You will be disillusioned and all that will turn towards yourself.
Also, in hatred, you hate somebody and suddenly you realize that person is going towards somebody else and hates somebody else. Then you will think, oh God, my whole life I wasted with this fellow.
One thing you need to be very clear about: your logic has no capacity to find your enemy. So whoever you think is your enemy, is not your enemy. When you sit with him and open up, you will realize that person has somebody else as his main enemy. This is the way the whole world goes on.
When you love a person and that same person loves you back equally, enlightenment happens through tantra: union. When you hate somebody and the same person hates you equally, what happens is called pralaya. But unfortunately both do not happen on planet Earth at all. It is too rare.
Examples of two persons loving each other the same amount would be: Shiva and Parvati, Sharada and Ramakrishna, Radha and Krishna. It is so rare; not even a handful. And I don’t even have one example of two people hating each other equally!
On planet Earth, neither love nor hatred is a straight line. Only when you become nobody, you become the center of millions of people’s love, and in the same way, for millions of people’s hatred also. But you neither love them back nor hate them back. You are just a black hole sucking the whole thing, where they disappear.
I tell you, whether by love or by hate, if you come near me, you are gone! When you dissolve into me by love, it is called enlightenment. When you dissolve into me by hatred, it is called pralaya. That’s all. But you dissolve into me.
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