What's the ultimate point to life: to be happy or to help others?

Thanks for your response! There are many aspects to helping others, and each has its own perspective. Read Ayn Rand's books (if you haven't already) and then maybe you will have one of those perspectives. One angle: Does only giving constitute charity? For example you know that an alocholic if given money will use it only to imbibe and harm himself, not giving him money then would be charity. I have read the Bhagwat Gita as well as the Old and New Testaments and the Koran too among the major religions of the world, there are many aspects to helping others.

We can not often tell the reality of whether something that happens is good or bad but with time we only get the knowledge that we tried to help and feeling good about that isnt bad

The term charity I used in not in the connotation of alms only.Charity is a wider concept, imbibing in it the whole gamut of service to the human kind. We need not be obsessed by any term as long as we understand and practice the concept. As for me I am a free religion man with due respect to all masters of the world.In my humble opinion they all speak of the same objective but in different languages.

Thanks for sharing, keep up good work!

Thanks for your response!