Q. 272: Gurudev, helping others is natural. Sometimes people come to me for help, should I apply a criteria whom to help and whom not to?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Yes! You should see whom to help and whom you should not help. Sometimes people can emotionally blackmail you asking for help and take advantage of you. You don’t have to agree on that. When you want to help, it should be separate from your emotional outburst. If you think that whatever help that you are doing really helps the person, only then you help.

Suppose someone has to go to a doctor and take treatment and the person says, ‘no please help me to get out of this hospital, I don’t want to take treatment here’, and you help him, are you really helping him? No, you are not because that person has to get treatment. Someone in the mental hospital says get me out of here. Patients in the mental hospital are not always gone, sometimes they are sane. They also talk sanely, so sometimes they may tell you I want to get out of here and you help them, what will happen. Worst!

See children, sometimes they don’t want to go to school. They say get me out of the boarding school. If you go by their wish, will they be able to complete their education? Impossible, right! So you need to distinguish between what is right help and which help would make a person go in the wrong path. This we must realize. What do you say? Isn’t it!

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