Beyond Love and Hate (M)

M says Love and Hate are at bottom the same thing. At the center there is the same substance in both, it is the obverse and reverse of the same stuff. It is a vibration, a vibration of extreme intensity. At the center there is this one single movement although at the periphery it becomes different, even contradictory. As the movement starts from the center and proceeds outwards it differentiates itself, becomes more and more different, contrary even contradictory to what it was at its origin. Hatred with all its most ugly features appears in the place of what was once a smiling beauty. Indeed Love itself as we know it, as it is at the outside on the periphery, is equally a deformation and aberration like hatred. Hatred kills but Love devours, vitality in man. both are perversions, falsified expressions of another truth behind. It is human ignorance and prejudice that appreciates one and deprecates the other. yet both have the same root, the flowering of the same seed may be say like electricity positive and negative. the two charges have opposite signs, but they attract each other and although in the expression they are contradictory, they are both charges of different electrical energy and therefore substantially they are one and the same.
The resolution of all contrariness and contradictoriness. Paradoxically one may say then all contradictions are an apparent illusion, all contradictions naturally and inevitably mean an inmost unity and identity. Even so the Brahman and the world or the Purusha and the Prakriti are apparent negations to each other, the duality is in the ordinary ignorant consciousness, but the two are one in the supreme indivisible consciousness.