Acharya Prashant explains that the concept of helping is not really about altruism or compassion, but rather that in helping the other, you actually help yourself. He states that it is likely impossible to help yourself without helping the other. This idea challenges what he terms "the fallacy of individual liberation." He asserts that there is no such thing as a liberated human being, and it is not possible for a single individual to be liberated. Consequently, the classical perception of liberation is described as false and childish. To understand this, one must recognize that the other person is not fundamentally different from oneself. When you look at another, you see the same fundamental tendencies that you observe in yourself. Differences in upbringing, culture, and conditioning only lead to different expressions of these shared tendencies. The speaker questions how the other can be considered truly an "other" when the fundamental tendencies are the same. He illustrates this point with several examples of shared human experiences: both you and the other are possessive, feel afraid, yearn for liberation, are born and will die, weep at night, get misled, are foolish, have the potential for greatness, and are lives going to waste. Superficial distinctions like being born in different years or having different skin colors do not change this underlying unity. He concludes by asking, "Look into his eyes, don't you see yourself? How are the two of you different?"