{"id":89,"date":"2014-05-19T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:18:13","slug":"selflessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/selflessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Selflessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man should become engaged in performance of their own duties with sentiments of selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It means that even if in other\u2019s duties, there is superfluity of qualities (a quantity or number beyond what is needed) \u00a0and even if there is something lacking in the qualities of our duties, and we are unable to adequately carry them out accordingly, then too, compared to other\u2019s duties, our duty \u201csvadharma\u201d \u00a0which will give good fruit in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as for a Pativrita (devoted wife), her own husband is most cherished, even if he be lacking in qualities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been said in Shri Ramcharitmanas \u2012<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u0935\u0943\u0926\u094d\u0927\u00a0 \u0930\u094b\u0917\u092c\u0938\u00a0 \u091c\u095c\u00a0 \u0927\u0928\u0939\u0940\u0928\u093e\u0964\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ aged, diseased, can\u2019t move, no wealth<\/p>\n<p>\u0905\u0902\u0927\u092c\u0927\u093f\u0930\u0915\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0927\u0940\u0905\u0924\u093f\u0926\u0940\u0928\u093e \u00a0\u0965\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [ blind, weak, angry, very poor<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even if the above eight bad qualities are present in your husband,\u00a0 and even if another\u2019s husband has many good qualities, then too for a wife, serving her own husband is best.\u00a0 He alone is to be served;\u00a0 never is another\u2019s husband to be served.\u00a0\u00a0 In the same way,\u00a0 one\u2019s own duty (svadharma) is best \u201cshreyaan\u2019, never another\u2019s duty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u0938\u094d\u0935\u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u0947\u0928\u093f\u0927\u0928\u0936\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092f\u0903\u092a\u0930\u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u094b \u00a0\u092d\u092f\u093e\u0935\u0939\u0903\u0965<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man should become engaged in performance of their own duties with sentiments of selflessness. \u00a0 It means that even if in other\u2019s duties, there is superfluity of qualities (a quantity or number beyond what is needed) \u00a0and even if there is something lacking in the qualities of our duties, and we are unable to adequately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}