Expectations

Hmmm......this is a really debatable thing. You would find many people telling you that you should keep your expectations to a minimum. Every wise man would tell you not to have expectations.

Even in Bhagwad Gita, Bhagwan Shri Krishna says that

कर्मण्ये वाधिकारस्ते म फलेषु कदाचना

कर्मफलेह्तुर भुरमा ते संगोस्त्वकर्मानी॥

English transliteration:
Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachna
Karmaphalehtur bhurma te sangostvakarmani.

Bhagwan Shri Krishna says that you have to do your rightful duties. The result is in His hands, he would provide you with the right kind of results of it. 

So, basically the matter of fact is we should be doing our duties at all appropriate times with full devotion and potential without even expecting anything out of it or worrying what would be the outcome. But now the question is: Is it possible to have no expectation and still be able to provide your complete power and energy to some work? I don't know, I doubt it that anyone can do that. 

Even in relations, it is wise to give your best to the person but not expect anything in return is considered to be the best possible situation. This is true to a large extent because the problems in any relations occur when the expections start to rise over and above the limits of person's capability to fulfill them. 

So be it work or relations or anything where we start to grow expectations, it starts to get sour. Sourness is directly proportional to expectation. But in today's world, the expectations of good results is the only motivational factor to do the work, or be good in a relation. So I would say that one's dedication towards the deed / relation is directly proportional to the expectations. Now this makes the situations too weird because to keep things from getting sour, you have to reduce expectations and again to keep things going, you need to have some sort of expectation (Until you can kill this completely). 

So, I believe that we need to strike a good balance of expectations and deeds which we do. And we should try to reach perfection where we zero out expectations and be dedicated to our duties and keep on doing it with full potential. 

I would write more about it in coming days

Any suggestions / comments welcome :)