Mind invents dummy problems to escape looking at itself — the real problem

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question (Q): I fear a student who would fully surrender and dislike a student not attentive. If both the states and anything in between is only reaffirming my ego, can the session be of any use to the student?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Who is facing this problem? Is the student asking this question?

Right now whatever he is saying is a concept of his own mind. When he says can the session be of any use to the student, the definition of use is coming from…?

Listener (L): Teacher.

AP: From the mind of the teacher, right? You would regard one particular thing as useful to the student and she (addressing another listener) would regard another thing as useful to the student. You might regard that if I could get the student to laugh, it indicates that the session was useful. She might regard that if I could get the students to silence, then the session was useful.

So, when we say that my session is useful to the students then what do we mean? Whatever we will mean will be an indicator of my own life. What I think of as useful for myself that I’ll think of as useful…