Sacrificing yourself to help others? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00If we do something to make someone else happy, by deceiving our own self, is it worth it?

00:06You cannot make someone else happy by deceiving your own self.

00:09That kind of a thing cannot exist.

00:11That kind of a thing exists only in ignorant kind of stories or novels or movies, where

00:17you say that, you know, I want to just suppress my own pleasure or happiness to make the other

00:22happy.

00:23The characteristic of the real thing is that it is not exclusive in nature.

00:27If helping someone makes you feel sad within, then that help is of no use.

00:33If the help is really authentic, you will find that it fills up your heart, it raises

00:39you from within.

00:40There is a certain joy.

00:41Even if that involves losing time or making effort or losing money or compromising on

00:47something, all those things will be there, but still there would be an internal fulfillment.

00:50So both parties will gain.

00:52One party will gain as the receiver of the help, and the other party, the helping party,

00:57will gain through inner fulfillment.