Want to make a difference in the world?

Dear GSR uncle,

While your goal/intention of making a difference in this world by having a positive impact, leaving this world a little bit better than you found it, etc., is laudable and to some extent worthy of following, note what Nisargadatta Maharaj says on this issue:

“The very purpose of creation is the fulfilment of desire. The desire may be noble, or ignoble, space (akash) is neutral — one can fill it with what one likes: You must be very careful as to what you desire. And as to the people you want to help, they are in their respective worlds for the sake of their desires; there is no way of helping them except through their desires. You can only teach them to have right desires so that they may rise above them and be free from the urge to create and re-create worlds of desires, abodes of pain and pleasure.”