What is the difference between faith on Swami and expectation from Swami?

[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Pādanamaskāram Swami, What is the difference between faith on Swami and expectation from Swami in the context of feeling "Swami will take care of this"? Please enlighten me. -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]

Swami replied: - The point that Swami will take care of this is bringing in the business devotion to the picture indirectly. We shall not depend on God for anything. We shall try to achieve anything just like an atheist. We love God just due to our tremendous attraction towards His personality. I gave the example of a fan loving a political leader or a cinema hero, who commits suicide when such hero or political leader expires. The fan is not aspiring for anything from the hero or the political leader. The purity and reality of love gets spoiled by such thoughts of expectations. We shall take the example of love of parents on their children, which is always one way traffic! Take the example of Sudaama (or Kuchela). Krishna did not extend even a trace of help to Sudaama while even returning back to his hometown. Krishna was watching the mind of Sudaama throughout the way. Sudaama never thought of the help not done by Krishna at any point of the path. The worldly love is purely selfish because anybody loves you only for his/her selfish happiness and not for your happiness (Ātmanaḥ kāmāya… Veda). Nobody loves you for your happiness. This is the case with any worldly bond. Hence, the bond with God must be always beyond any worldly bond. This is the first most important step to be taken while forming bond with God. Hence, Nivrutti or spiritual life is totally different from Pravrutti or worldly life.

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