Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 16: The Divine and the Demonic Natures

Bhagavad Gita 16.18

ahaṅkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ ca saṃśritāḥ | māmātmaparadeheṣu pradviṣanto'bhyasūyakāḥ ||

Given over to ego, force, arrogance, desire, and anger, these envious people hate me, who dwell in their own bodies and in the bodies of others.

Modern context

Given over to ego, force, arrogance, desire and anger, they hate the divine that dwells in their own bodies and in others'. This is a remarkable insight. Hating others is, in the end, hating what lives in them, which is the same as what lives in oneself. Cruelty to others is a kind of self-harm. The demonic person is at war with the divine within themselves.