Sickness can be cured only by the touch of Health

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

Question (Q): What should be done in a situation when you approach someone who is sick, who glorifies his or her sickness, and thinks that you are sick? How to make the right judgment? How to know who is really sick?

Acharya Prashant (AP): You see, thinking of it, one can never be fully sure, never. And in terms of thought, it is not even advisable that one is too sure; because that would be a kind of arrogance. So just as one has all the rights, rather the responsibility, to approach the other and say that the other might be sick — of course not in a way of accusing, but in a way of loving — similarly the other one too has a right to turn around and say, “Well I think there is a bug here, and a little bit of sickness might lie with you as well.”

One has to accept it and enquire about the fact. There might be some fact in what the other is saying. And it is possible that the other is exaggerating beyond the fact, that the other is not just stating a fact, but rather turning around to attack you because s/he does not like that you are calling his bluff. That is also possible.

Listener (L): That is the main critical situation.