Acharya Prashant explains that life is not about waiting for external help or for some special messiah to arrive. All such waiting is in vain, as no help will come from the outside. You have to help yourself. You must understand your own fears and limitations by yourself. However, when you become ready to understand yourself, you will find that the entire existence is prepared to help you. It is not that help comes first and then liberation follows; the opposite is true. When the mind sees liberation, it finds that help is coming from all directions. The problem is not a lack of help, but that you are not yet ready. You are the cause of your own fear and the one who binds yourself. The day you decide to fly, you will find that everything in life—every situation, every book, every moment—is eager to help you fly. The speaker illustrates this with a story of a man knocking on a door that is already open. If he truly wanted to go beyond, he would have seen the open door and simply walked through. Knocking and waiting are just ways to deceive oneself and escape from the present. Waiting implies that something special will happen in the future, but whatever has to happen, must happen now. The future cannot give you anything. Dependence on another is equally futile because no one else has ever truly been of use to anyone. Even when listening to a speaker, the words may be theirs, but the understanding is your own. It is your own understanding that helps you. Two main points emerge: the future is of no use to anyone, and no one else can be of use to anyone. You have to help yourself, and you must do it now. The one who postpones to the future or waits for someone else is only deceiving themselves.