{"id":531,"date":"2015-01-28T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=531"},"modified":"2015-01-28T06:16:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:16:39","slug":"action-tainted-by-expectation-rapidly-degenerates-into-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/action-tainted-by-expectation-rapidly-degenerates-into-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Action tainted by expectation rapidly degenerates into desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.\u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Sadhu Vaswani<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u0915\u093e\u092e\u0940 \u0915\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0927\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0932\u091a\u0940, \u0907\u0928\u0938\u0947 \u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b\u090f \u0964<br \/>\n\u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0930\u0947 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0938\u0942\u0930\u092e\u093e, \u091c\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u0935\u0930\u094d\u0923 \u0915\u0941\u0932 \u0916\u094b\u090f ||<br \/>\n<strong><em>transliterated:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nK\u00e3mi krodi l\u00e3lchi, inse bhakti kya hoye|<br \/>\nBhakti kare koi surma, j\u00e3ti varna kul khoye ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Translation:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe lusty, angry or greedy, these are incapable of devotion|<br \/>\nDevotion is for that exceptional one, who is free of denomination, affiliation or social binding ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My understanding:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWhen we claim to do something because it needs doing, it behooves us to inspect closely the true drive behind the reasons we proffer.<\/p>\n<p>Most all of our actions are driven by an expectation of something in return \u2013 whether it is material, sensual or emotional. All of these returns provide temporary satiation to a demand of the physical body. I term it temporary because close introspection does prove that there is no material, sensual or emotional demand that ever says \u201cThank you \u2013 I have had enough for this life!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This then makes the demand truly insatiable. So our first success at receiving some return\/satiation only fuels the drive to get more \u2013 till we find ourselves exhausted \u2013 but not the desire. When we can fulfill the need no more, it makes us sad, unhappy, dejected, and even negative. So that which seemed to make us happy is truly laying the seed for the opposite result in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to find true peace and centeredness is to break free of the shackle of desire and the need to conform to externally imposed needs \u2013 the need to be someone in social spaces, the need to feel a particular way or the need to be able to claim victory in a specific area. These needs can only lead to Pyrrhic victory \u2013 the cost of the victory far outweighs the returns, and it leaves one with a deep sense of loss and dejection. Give up the dependence on such needs and find fulfillment and satisfaction in just being rather than acting out of expectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.\u201c &#8211; Sadhu Vaswani \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u00a0 \u0915\u093e\u092e\u0940 \u0915\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0927\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0932\u091a\u0940, \u0907\u0928\u0938\u0947 \u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b\u090f \u0964 \u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0930\u0947 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0938\u0942\u0930\u092e\u093e, \u091c\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u0935\u0930\u094d\u0923 \u0915\u0941\u0932 \u0916\u094b\u090f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}