Apologies for the late reply Sunanda, I haven’t logged in for a while. How to hate the sin and not the sinner? Well for starters, don’t hate at all. The mind can be influenced, but feelings are really not in our control – they come and go as they please. For example, if your father is an angry person and always shouts at you, maybe your natural response is hatred towards him. Your mother tells you that he struggles at work so you can go to school, so you can use your mind to not say anything hurtful to him, but your anger will still be there. But if it so happens that you spend a day at his workplace and experience how much he has to struggle, or get to witness how he foregoes something he needs so that you can have your wish, things change – suddenly the same behaviour will not trigger any anger anymore, indeed, it may even trigger love because you know that that anger is a result of him striving to put food on your plate.

In the same way, how to not hate the sinner, or how to not hate at all – is a matter of experience. And you experience more when you are awake and participating in life. So just open your eyes and be brutally honest with yourself. You will find that you see more and more that everyone is going through his or her own journey. Ultimately there is no good or bad. And once that starts to become an experiential truth, all that hatred will start to drop away.