Just as water and fire cannot go together, so hatred and Bhakti cannot go together. He also declared: ‘Those who look upon all things with an equal eye, free of sorrow and delight, attachment and hatred, good and bad, those alone are dear to Me.’ If the vṛtti of hatred is present in the antaḥkaraṇa in any form at all, such a one cannot be a devotee. “Vāsudevas sarvam idam”: there must be the feeling that everything is “Vāsudeva”. He declared too that, thinking, living and feeling one's own Ātma to be everywhere and in everything, whoever hates anything becomes one who has hated his own self.