there are two aspectsfor the compassionate service simply
1. doing good to felow beings when they suffer from hunger , thirst , disease, ignorance, poverty , and fear
2. refraining from killing and taking flesh
if one pursue the virtue of relieving one from hunger , it is the supreme help The other kinds of help can be easily rendered by anybody else, as they are supplementaries and sustain the life for some more time.
saint vallalar insists that one should give help to all souls with his earned money and through his own physical labour.
when this is not possible , he should at least pray for
them..... like this