Letting go of expectations from family

Sadhvi Bhagawatiji shares that even though Pujya Swamiji wisely reminds us that ‘Expectation is the Mother of Frustration,’ expectations are not bad in and of themselves. The only problem that comes is when our expectation is not fulfilled – how do we respond? That is all that is in our hands. It is our attachment to the expectation that leads to suffering.

She gives several examples of how we expect from others, especially with our family. She explains how we can be in peace, be in love by knowing that when people don’t fulfill our expectations and hurt us then they either didn’t know it, didn’t mean it or due to their own karmic issues they didn’t have a choice.

She explains that people go through the world with their own tool box. Sometimes some people don’t have love, patience, compassion, in their tool box, so how can they give what they don’t have? She shares that we can stay grounded and centred, free from attachment to our expectations, so that in our families we become a nexus of love, peace and compassion.