Passage 10

In English

If you ask anyone for whose benefit he is living, he will reply immediately without any hesitation that he is living for himself. He will state that he is living for his own sake. To support this, he gives an example to say that when his leg is broken, he will bandage his own leg but he will not put a bandage on his mother’s or his wife’s leg. Further, even if two persons are sleeping on one and the same cot, they will have different dreams and the dreams which they have are not going to be common to both. In this context, he clearly states, with the support of such examples that both in the waking state and in the dreaming state he lives for himself but not for others.