We are all selfish and even when we do good it is with selfishness. We think we are helping
the other but the selfishness doesn't go one husband and wife fought at night is that a
very uncommon occurrence I don't think so I'm only guessing I do believe it's a corporate
a common occurrence right so this particular husband and wife also fought the fight became
serious, so serious that they stopped talking to each other the husband took a radical step
he said I will not sleep at home tonight he went to sleep in the car in the driveway a
little after midnight the wife had a change of mood she suddenly realized how much he
loves her husband and she thought she will make up with her husband she took her husband's
favorite soda now she went out the husband was sleeping she opened the door and she put
it in there thinking that when he wakes up and he finds this is what my wife has done
for me he will also realize how much he loves her and after that they will live happily
ever after now if it was a fairy tale they would have lived happily ever after but this
was a real life it was not a fairy tale when the husband woke up and he found the soda
bottle his anger hadnot yet subsided rather than drinking the soda he opened the door
of the car and poured it in the driveway and then he took the bottle and smashed it and
broke it that is what really annoyed the wife the wife came to Swamiji complaining how could
my husband do this to me I did such wonders for him I took the soda for him for his sake
I put it out there and he did not a reciprocating saw Swami he said what did you expect your
husband to do to make you happy the moment she heard that suddenly a light went on she
realized she was not doing selfless service as she had thought she was having expectations
from her husband that is not being selfless that is being selfish this selfishness refuses
to go from within us somebody said I am leaving this satsang why are you leaving the satsang
I served the satsang so selflessly but nobody realized the sacrifices that I had made and
gave me importance for it I said look if you had made selfless sacrifices why did you feel
the need for getting importance you are thinking of making selfless sacrifices but there is
the selfishness everybody should do Jake are you are a great devotee our human nature that
selfishness is causing all the strain in the relationships mind you!