Love Quote by Sri Chinmoy

Hate, in Sri Chinmoy's framing, isn’t the opposite of love so much as love’s frustrated shadow. The line works because it refuses the clean moral geometry we prefer: love good, hate bad, move on. Instead it points to a more humiliating psychology - that some hatreds are powered by attachment, investment, even hope. You don’t burn that hot for someone you feel nothing for. You burn because you once wanted intimacy, harmony, recognition, repair.

The quote’s pivot is “whom you really wish to love,” a phrase that smuggles in obligation. This isn’t just romantic longing; it’s the family member, teacher, comrade, or spiritual peer you’re “supposed” to feel warmth toward. Chinmoy, a spiritual teacher steeped in devotion and inner discipline, is speaking to seekers who prize unconditional love yet keep colliding with the limits of their own temperament. The sting comes from admitting that the obstacle may be mutual: “Perhaps he himself prevents you.” The other person’s defenses, ego, or cruelty become the external alibi - but the subtext is that your hate is also a confession of dependence. You need them to be lovable.

Calling hate “a disguised form of love” isn’t sentimental; it’s diagnostic. It re-labels hatred as misdirected energy: the same intensity that could sustain compassion gets rerouted into resentment when love feels impossible or unsafe. The context is a spiritual ethic that treats emotions as transformable rather than fixed identities. Chinmoy isn’t excusing hostility; he’s trying to make it workable. If hate is disguised love, then the task is unmasking: grieving the unmet desire underneath, and choosing what to do with the remaining attachment.