Concealed Contempt
The feeling which we call love is, in fact, a form of hatred. In making love, we make another our means for happiness; and as soon as this happens, hatred begins. In making love, we live for our own self. We want to serve our own selfish end. At times, we appear to do something for another, but it is simply because we are out to get something from him in return. We desire the fruit; otherwise, we do nothing. That is why our love may turn into hatred at any moment.
It happens: the love shown to somebody a few minutes before may turn into contempt for him soon after. If a small obstruction crops up that gets in the way of the fulfilment of our desire, our love will be changed into hatred. Love which can be turned into contempt is only concealed hatred. There is hatred within, and the outer covering is just a semblance of love.
The Ishavasya Upanishad presents here a very important sutra which makes love possible; otherwise not. Without understanding and acting upon this sutra, there is no possibility for the flower of love to open. This sutra says that hatred will come to an end only when a person begins to see himself in all animate and inanimate objects, and begins to see all animate and inanimate objects — the whole existence — in himself. Remember, the Ishavasya Upanishad does not say that love will be born then, but says, “Then hatred will come to an end.”
Om Namah Shivay
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