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Jainas and hate Buddhists or Mohammedans -- you will have to find a scapegoat.
But this is pointless; it doesn't help, it can't help. Your hatred is bogus, so is your love. Both are artificial, comfortable but untrue. That's why man has to invent a devil also with God: love God and hate the devil. Otherwise you will have to love and hate God.
In that way, the East is far more insightful. You have to love and hate God. God is both the creator and the destroyer, God brings life and God brings death. It is God who creates the roses and it is God who creates the thorns in the rosebushes. It is God who gives you health and all the blessings of life and it is God who gives you illness, old age, disease and all the curses of life.
But for that you need a very profound vision. The easier and more simple way is: divide. Let God become the direction of your love and the devil the direction of your hate. This is easier, but then your love for God will be just so-so, lukewarm -- because it is false; this is not a true God.
Existence is one. And it is good to hate the same person you love, because then the play of hate and love will create music. Otherwise, just hating one person will not create music -- there will be sound but no silence, and there will not be music. And loving one person will not be an opportunity, an occasion, for creating music either -- because there will be silence but there will be no sound.
Sound and silence together, dancing hand in hand, embracing each other -- music is created. Music is bliss. Don't be afraid. Hate the same person and love the same person, that's how it should be. Don't become puzzled by it. Difficulties will be there, because you have been taught 'How can you hate the person you love?' -- you have been taught that dichotomy. But you have to understand, the teaching is false.
How can you NOT hate the same person if you love him? -- that's what I say to you. You will have to hate the same person you love -- and understanding it, even hate is accepted. When hate is accepted, your love has transcended. When love and hate both are accepted totally, you have a transcendence, a great insight, a
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