Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how to stop hating someone by first explaining that the wise have always considered the mind a sacred place, like a temple, which should be kept very clean. One should not put things in the mind that do not deserve to be there. When you hate someone, you do not forget them; instead, you remember them all the more and get deeper into their memory. In a very perverse and indirect way, you have made the person you hate your God, placing someone unworthy in the sacred temple of your mind. This act of constantly remembering someone you hate is not real hatred but a form of worship. The best and purest act of hatred, he suggests, would be to forgive and forget. If you are still hating someone, it means you still have a very strong relationship with them, preserving them in your mind. The reason for this, he explains, is that you have nothing better to keep in your mind. The relationship initially formed because your level of consciousness matched theirs. Even after the person is gone, your level remains the same, so you continue the relationship with their memories. Acharya Prashant uses the metaphor of touch: earlier you touched the person to embrace them, now you touch them in your imagination to hit them, but you are still touching them. The only way to get rid of this cycle is by raising your level of consciousness. You must not remain the same person who got into that relationship. As long as you remain inwardly the same, you will never truly break up, and that person will continue to haunt you. Worse still, you will attract another person of the same type, leading to the same old suffering with a new face and name. The solution is to lift yourself up, because you deserve to be better and deserve somebody better.