Progress of an individual and the society depends on their right thinking and right way of working. A needy man can be offered some immediate help but such support does not bring about a permanent solution. Medicines alone cannot cure a patient unless he also exercises self-restraints in his overall way of living. If we follow only the treatment part of prescription and ignore the restrictions advised by the physician, the disease will continue to re-cur again and again. Therefore just offering doles to the poor is not the real solution of poverty. By giving food, we can, temporarily satisfy a poor man's hunger, but it is not at all possible to go on feeding such a man indefinitely. Poverty will vanish only when the poor become industrious and put an effort to earn their livelihood. This holds good for all problems. Self-help is the real help.