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a love that contains both love and hate. Only that love is real love which can contain hate too.
Why are you so much afraid of hate? Because your love is too small, tiny. You know that if there is hate, the hate will destroy love. Only poor lovers are afraid of hate. Real lovers can hate as much as they like, and they know, they trust, that love will transcend, that love will conquer finally -- there is no fear.
The second question:
Question 2
I WANT TO PRAY TO GOD. PLEASE TEACH ME THE WAY.
DON'T bother God, He's got his own problems. Don't you see whatsoever He creates dies? Keep your problems to yourself. Why should one want to pray to God? God does not need your prayers. You may be in need of those prayers, but they will not be anything more than vocalizing your desires, your de-mands, expressing your complaints. That's what people are doing in the name of prayer -- complaining and complaining and complaining, and saying 'Things should not be like this.' Trying to help God to become a little more wise.
No, prayer is not needed, what is needed is meditation. Meditation has no reference to God. Meditation transforms you; it takes no account of God. And you don't know about God in any way -- how will you pray to something unknown, something x-y-z? In what language are you going to pray to God? You don't know Him at all. And there are people who say 'By praying to God you will come to know Him.' But prayer presupposes as a requirement, basic requirement, that you should KNOW, only then can you pray. You should know, only then can you love. How can you love an unknown God? Your prayer will be formal; it will be nothing but a cliche.
Meditation is a totally different dimension. Kabir will suggest meditation, Buddha has suggested meditation, I suggest meditation. Meditation is a different approach -- it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you, with your mind. It has to create a silence within you, a deep utter silence. In that utter silence you will start feeling the presence of God.
Prayer is a consequence of real meditation. Only a meditator can pray -- because he knows, because he feels,
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