Once that kind of darkness enters into you, the way that Booker T. Washington phrased it was,

it narrows and degrades your soul. It narrows. Once I've allowed that person to create

hatred, which is the cause of the whole problem in the first place. Once that exists in me,

you know, we think, oh, I need that so that I can combat it. I need some good hatred in me,

you know. And it's also sometimes to make a public statement. Well, yeah, look and admire my

hatred. It shows you how committed I am. It's not the hatred. You can be just or even more committed without a drop of hatred just with clarity, just with clarity.

And clarity means, you know, this is, of course, where our spiritual knowledge comes in.

Clarity means that I understand that underneath that warped mind, there's a soul

just like every other soul. And that mind's been warped because of that person's experience.

I've probably been through many lifetimes. I've been just as warped. And maybe even this lifetime,

maybe even in some ways right now, I'm, I'm,

even a year ago you were that warped because you know, I might be that I might, I might, I might be callous to how I'm cruel to others or how I commit injustices to others, even right now.

Hmm. And, and others could, could be just to find their hate against me. So let's just try to, you know, let's,

let's try to tone that down. And he said, I learned the lesson that great men or great people

cultivate love, right? That's actually what, this is what the path of Bhakti is. I'm cultivating love.

I'm cultivating love. And if I'm cultivating love and if i'm going to

call if that's going to grow it means that i can't at all cherish this um the spirit of

hatred you know and and sometimes we even feel we need it like in in more superficial arenas

you know i hate that band i hate the you know i hate the right whatever even

that you know like we got you know like i kind of it makes me cool to hate that person that's

uncool you know or it makes me deep to hate that person that's shallow or it makes me down to earth

to hate that person that's like artsy or whatever you know whatever it is it's just like

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