Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why he criticizes others, a practice that seems to contradict the societal teaching to look for faults within oneself. He explains that one must look at the doer behind the action, not just the action itself. Simply observing an action, like two people walking in the same direction, reveals nothing about their inner state; one could be motivated by love, the other by hatred. Similarly, if both carry daggers, one might intend to kill, while the other intends to save. The intention of the doer is what matters. The speaker identifies the doer as the ego. Typically, the ego acts out of insecurity to protect and enhance itself. It has no original yardstick to measure its worth, so it relies on comparison. To feel big, it must prove others are small. This is why criticism is usually done: to belittle others and, in comparison, feel superior. In such cases, while the conversation appears to be about the other person, the real, hidden subject is oneself and the desire to feel bigger. However, there is a second type of criticism, which comes from a person who is secure and complete in themselves. Such a person has no need to enhance themselves or feel bigger. They criticize out of compassion, wanting the other person to reach the same state of completeness. Having experienced the suffering of incompleteness themselves, they see the other person stuck in it and want to help them get out. This criticism is not to make oneself bigger, but to make the other person bigger. The speaker leaves it to the questioner to decide which kind of criticism he himself practices. He concludes that it is necessary to criticize people's false self-confidence to show them they are on a wrong path, a path of destruction. He urges the questioner to become their own critic, stating that if one wants to be worthy of praise, they must learn to criticize themselves. If you become your own critic, he will not need to criticize you. He adds that there is much in everyone that is worthy of criticism, so one should not be surprised or angry when it happens.