Acharya Prashant addresses the dilemma of whether to live for oneself or for others. He reframes the issue, explaining that there are indeed two sides, but they are not as they are commonly perceived. These two sides correspond to two different centers from which a person can operate. The first center is the one from which most people operate, where working for oneself is seen as different from and contradictory to working for others. From this center, self-interest is pitted against general interest in a zero-sum game, where if one wins, the other must lose. This perspective assumes that one's welfare and the welfare of others are mutually exclusive, like a single piece of bread that cannot be had by two people simultaneously. This common way of looking at life, which gives rise to the question, stems from the center of the ego. The ego believes that its interest is different from and contrasted with the interest of the world. However, there is another center of operation, which is the center of maturity and wisdom. From this center, one sees that one's own real interests and the interests of others are actually inseparable. When you take care of your own real interests, you find that you are directly or indirectly helping others as well. Conversely, if you are genuinely helping others, you will find that you are also helping yourself. From this higher perspective, the two become one and undivided. The speaker explains that the deepest desire of a human being is not to accumulate things for the little self, but to get rid of the self itself, which is the ultimate bondage. This desire for the dissolution of the self is what he calls true love. The purpose of life is to discover this deepest desire. When one operates from the immature center of the ego, one is attached to a random, conditioned identity—body, religion, nationality, likes, and dislikes. This center believes it can be happy at the expense of others, which is a delusion and the very source of suffering. This suffering may not be immediately apparent, much like an infection whose symptoms appear later. People operating from this center are suffering yet claim all is well, a state of blindness rather than positivity. The path to resolving this is through careful self-observation, which reveals that the idea of a separate self seeking its own happiness is the fundamental problem.