Swami Mukundananda

Why does hating someone hurt me more than it hurts them?

The snake and the saw

A snake clipped by a saw bit it, then wrapped around it to suffocate it, and died from its own cuts. In hating the saw, the snake was hurting itself.

But in the process it got cut so badly that the snake died itself. Now in hating the saw, the snake was hurting itself.