Too much expectation is the cause of frustration!

Posted by dinesh

Too much expectation is the cause of frustration. We have in our mind
that this and this should be such and such. And sometimes we may have
to tolerate by being flexible but not beyond our limit of tolerance.
When we stretch beyond our limits of tolerance we cannot continue that
for long and finally it becomes a disaster and depression of mind
resulting in madness. As far as comfort of the body is concerned,we
need to fulfill the basic offer of it in proper time at regular
intervals. It's very important that we care our body also very nicely
because only with that we can perform our services,be it material or
Spiritual.
We are not meant to labour hard day and night like asses rather use
the body in realizing the self. The body also needs some physical
work. But in our modern offices, we sit for hours and hours and the
result is piles! We find our elders who worked for so many years this
way are suffering only with piles and other serious complications in
the body.
"To the degree we attach ourselves to a particular thing, to that
degree we will get frustrated when we lose that thing"-HH.Radhanath
Swami
And so we must be cautious in our dealings with this world. When we
get closer to something we'll have to remember and make up our mind
prepared to lose that any time.
"There'll come a time when all of us must leave here,when nothing
sister mary can do to keep me here with you. And things that seemed so
very plain become an awful pain. There comes a time when most of us
return here,backed by our desires to be a perfect entity"-George
Harrison
Therefore it's essential to keep our expectation to the least possible
extent in our dealings in this world. By nature this world is meant
for giving us lessons.