Dear Gautam:

You can give a hungry person a meal without expecting anything in return, do charity acts like that. But in a personal relationship, where you interact with another person repeatedly, I don’t think it is possible to not have expectations of getting something in return.

As spiritual as a person can be, a person is still a social animal and like other social animals, no individual gives without an expectation of getting something in return. For social animals relationships are give-and-take.

anita