If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.
You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"
It's better to do something, even if you're attached to the results.
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
Selfless giving involves time. It takes a bit of time to care and share yourself with the universe.
As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?
There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.
If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
Suddenly they have to face each other down - you've got to kill your friends.
Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.
Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
