You do not really care about the expectations that, let’s say, the entire humanity has from you. It is bitterly cold and a dog is outside your doorsteps; you do not wonder about the expectations that that dog might be having. It is only the expectations of a particular four people that matter to you—four people. And who are these four people? The ones with whom you have the bond of ‘me’, ‘mine’, ‘my’.
If you have to cater to expectations, then why not cater to the expectations of an entire nation, or the entire world, or the entire animal kingdom? Entire species are vanishing every day—don’t they expect you to help them? So, answer their expectations.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
