Exercise: Practice Selfless Love

Try this small exercise: choose a partner from amongst your acquaintances or work-related colleagues, of the same gender. Look after that partner completely without letting them know you are doing this as an exercise.

Your first concern should always be for the other person's comfort. You should always look to see if he or she is happy and comfortable. Find out if the person needs anything. If you are at an office function, give him or her a plate before grabbing one for yourself. Don't choose your friends or relatives or people with whom you would like to be friends later! Just choose at random.

Almost all our lives, we worry only about ourselves. Outside of ourselves, at the most, we worry about our close family, that too because we feel that it is our duty. But we think that it is love. When you start doing this exercise, you will get a chance to see what selfless love is like! It is selfless because you don't expect anything from the other person.