There is a maxim that, " Do your duty, and don't expect results". I am pondering over this statement.
Even I asked people who told me, that when I was young, how, one can do duty without any expectations?. It's quite natural that, once you do your duty, you can expect the results. It's like Newton's 3rd law, for every action there is a opposite and equal reaction.
I will tell you in another way, to enable you to understand. Suppose if you write the examinations, you will expect the results isn't it?. How do you tell that, you write only the examinations and don't expect any results for that?. It's quite odd you know?. What does it actually mean?.
Actually we should know, when, where, who and why it's said by Lord Krishna to Arjuna In the
Battlefield of Mahabaratham
or Mahabharata. The war is about to begin, Arjuna has refused to fight by seeing all the people, who were in front of him. His Guru Dhronachariar, Beshimer, and his relatives dears and nears were there. He had got fed up and thrown his Bow down stating that, after having utterd each and every person's name that, how can I fight against my own people?. If I have to fight and kill only, to get that victory means, I am not for that. I don't want that fight at all. let us go back from this battlefield.
Lord Krishna by seeing the act of Arjuna, smiled and said to him that, it's not like that, you have to fight to establish the Dharma. Don't think that your are fighting. Actually it's a fight against not against you and your relatives. it's a fight against Good and Bad or Goods and Evils. You are here only to fight to establish that Good will win over Evil always. Dharmam should win. So as a Warrior your duty is only to fight. you do your duty properly. Don't worry about the outcome or results of it. The outcome or the results of the war is not in your hands.
"Do you duty. Don't expect any result out of it." if you discharge your duty properly, the result will come to you automatically. Hence the idealogy behind this statement is, " If one does his duty properly without any expectations, the will come to him automatically one day or other. Definitely, it will come to him. Hope I made it clear to you.
Author's note: some people are of the opinion that The Two Great Epics of Hindus, " The Ramanayam and The Mahabharatm is a MYTH. I am not going into that. Now researches have been proved that were really happened and true also. They have located the places mentioned in the epics and evidence have been excavated by the Arcichological departments in different parts of the world, to substantiate that truth.
Hence we can take the good messages from them for our lives to lead. There is nothing wrong in taking good things from any for our betterment. If you have anything to express, tell in your comment.