12 Jun 2023
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Jesus prayed to God to excuse even the people who crucified Him and did not hate even such sinners. But, the same God Jesus says to devotees in His spiritual knowledge that unless the devotees hate the worldly bonds, they can’t be His disciples. How this can be correlated?]
Swami replied:- Hatred is of two types:-
i) Direct hatred:- If you hate the worldly bonds directly without a third parameter, it is the hatred generated in your heart. If you don’t like coffee, it is a direct hatred generated in your mind towards coffee. This is absolute hatred. This is real hatred and also looks like real hatred.
ii) Indirect hatred:- This is not hatred generated in your heart directly, but it looks like hatred for the external view. If you have tasted divine nectar and due to the relative comparison of taste, if you start hating coffee which you liked very much previously, this is indirect hatred. This is relative hatred. Relative hatred is not really hatred but looks like real hatred.
In the case of sinners, who crucified Jesus, Jesus did not have direct real hatred. In the case of devotees, who are recommended to hate the worldly bonds, the hatred is unreal relative hatred that looks like absolute hatred. Hence, Jesus is not advising devotees to hate worldly bonds directly without reference to God. In worldly life or Pravrutti, every soul must love worldly bonds compared to the other public because worldly bonds like parents, spouse, children, etc., are more loyal to the soul compared to outsiders. In Nivrutti or spiritual life, the taste of God is so much that God tastes like the divine nectar and the worldly bonds taste like coffee. In Pravrutti, you liked worldly bonds and coffee to the climax in absence of the taste of God and divine nectar. Even after tasting God or divine nectar, you are not having direct hatred to worldly bonds or coffee. It is only relative hatred or indirect hatred or unreal hatred that looks like real hatred to all others except yourself. Even in Nivrutti, your consciousness knows that you are not hating the worldly bonds or coffee. You are liking God or divine nectar to such an extent that you are not liking anything or anybody other than God and the divine nectar. Therefore, in Nivrutti, the hatred towards worldly bonds is not a sin because it is only a relative hatred that appears to everybody as absolute hatred. God or the divine nectar should also not be blamed because God or the divine nectar is not coming with a sword and cutting worldly bonds or the bond with coffee. That is the taste of God or the divine nectar for which they are not responsible.
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