Once I remember in college we were checking our results on the notice board. I was the happiest among all those around me. One of the people, who seemed most dissatisfied, thought that I had topped and enquired the same. I had got a 50 per cent while he had got an 85 per cent! He had an expectation of 100, while I had none, I was happy to pass. When you have no expectations, there is no question of disappointment.

The people who enjoy good food and make efforts to render it more tasty are the ones who crib the most after eating, that the food was not up to the mark. At times, they even forget to put salt in my food, but I am never disappointed. I have no expectations from the food because it's taste can only please the taste buds and that too for a couple of minutes. That’s it. Then what is the point? Not just food or academics, you may also look at your relationships. When you establish a relationship with a lot of excitement, there is a lot of expectation from it, but then the same expectations become the biggest source of your disappointment.

The bottom line is, the more attached you are to something or someone, the more disappointed you will be. This holds true even for your Guru figure. The more attached you are to the Guru physically, the more you relate to the physical body, the more disappointed you will be. That is why it is said that one must relate to the Guru as energy and access that in totality. Those who expect physical things out of me are the most disappointed; those who access me in the realm of the ether stay content because Spiritual is Satvik, there is no taste in it. So if even the body of Guru can do nothing for you, you can rest assured that everything else in life is surely a disappointment.