Hating the divine in everyone

ahaṃkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ ca saṃśritāḥmāmātmaparadeheṣu pradviṣanto’abhyasūyakāḥ

Holding to ego, force, arrogance, desire and anger, envious, they hate Me, who lives in their own bodies and in others.

What it means

Krishna reveals the deepest harm. Driven by ego, brute force, arrogance, desire and anger, such people end up hating Krishna himself. Not in a temple, but in their own bodies and in everyone around them. Cruelty to others is cruelty to the divine within all, including within the cruel person.

The story

Duryodhana's hatred of the Pandavas has slowly become hatred of everything good. Krishna sees how that hatred eats him from the inside.

In your life

Think of someone so bitter they couldn't enjoy even their own wedding. Hatred poisons the hater first. Let go of one grudge this week, for your own sake.