Acharya Prashant advises to never help anyone with expectations, especially the expectation of receiving something in return. He states that it is fine to help only with the expectation that you will be abused for it. If one finds this prospect very unpleasant, then one should not help at all. However, if one chooses to help, they should do so fearlessly. To understand this, one must grasp the entire science of helping. The person you are going to help often does not truly know what their ailment is or what medicine they need. This is the nature of the individual being (Jiva) and its ego. The Jiva suffers, but it does not know the cause of its suffering. How can it know the cause, when the one who is suffering is the cause itself? For the sufferer, to be told that they themselves are the cause of their own suffering is a great insult; it feels like a slap. Since there is suffering, a cause must be established, so the ego projects the cause onto someone or something external. When this troubled person asks for help, they are not asking for their internal issue to be resolved. Instead, they ask for the eradication of the external cause they blame for their suffering. A true helper, however, will point out that the suffering is not due to an external factor but because of the person themselves. This is a two-fold hurt for the sufferer. Firstly, the helper does not address the external 'enemy' the sufferer has identified. Secondly, and more painfully, the helper implies that the sufferer is not just sad but also foolish, as their real enemy is not outside but within themselves. Consequently, the helper becomes the new, bigger enemy in the eyes of the person they are trying to help. Acharya Prashant concludes that any true helper in this world is bound to get hurt. Therefore, a helper needs not only large hands to give but also a strong, steel-like chest to endure the blows that will come. He equates this kind of help with love, which is not a matter of mere tenderness but requires the strength of iron. Love is for those who do not break when faced with retaliation. Using the metaphor of Karna, who was a great donor and had impenetrable armor on his chest, he explains that when you give with your hands, the world will strike at your heart. If you give from the heart, you must be prepared to be hurt in the heart.