2 Dec 2011 - QA 7

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You don’t need to accept people who love you. There is no question of acceptance there. The challenge if there is any is to accept those who hate you.
There are some people because of their ignorance they don’t like you. They don’t know you and so they don’t like you. What can you do? You just accept it.
If you don’t accept them it will bother your mind. So just accept them as that’s how they are. It’s a role that they are all playing.
In this world of millions of people it is not necessary that everybody should like you. There can be someone who doesn’t like you. So accept and save your own mind. If they don’t like you, it’s their problem, not yours.