Helping Others || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Compromising to keep others happy? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2022)

Transcript

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

00:07Helping others should involve bringing them to their potential.

00:13Be careful when you are helping others.

00:16Be conscious of the nature of help.

00:18Because often, if you help in an ignorant way, your help can be counterproductive.

00:23You can spoil or you can render the wrong kind of advice or you can make the other person dependent on you.

00:30So remember the right kind of help.

00:32The right kind of help is that which awakens the other's potential.

00:36One characteristic of right help is that it reduces the need of the helped to remain dependent on help.

00:45The one you are helping should very soon become free of the need to be helped.

00:51That is the characteristic of the right kind of help.

00:54It works both ways.

00:55It will help that person or that cause and it will help you the helper.