Acharya Prashant explains that the phrase "loving oneself" is meaningful only in the context of man, as nothing else in existence finds this meaningful. He describes love as having a paradoxical relationship with duality. Love is the very meaning and purpose of duality, its frontier, and its climax. Simultaneously, love is also what dissolves all duality. The final and ultimate duality is the distance between what you truly are and what you think yourself to be, which is the climax of duality. This gap is between your imagination and reality. To love oneself, therefore, is the movement of all that you know, think, and imagine yourself to be towards that place where you have no imaginations or knowledge about yourself. It is a movement into selflessness. The speaker clarifies that loving oneself does not mean knowing oneself in the conventional sense of concept formation or thinking. In fact, loving oneself means *not* knowing oneself. When you have ideas about yourself, you are predictable, and a future and pattern exist for you. This sense of 'me' or personality is one's limit and trap, which one incessantly struggles to get rid of. Loving oneself is to realize that whatever you think yourself to be is not something to be maintained or preserved, but something that must go. It is a journey of self-annihilation. This is contrasted with the common understanding of love. For most people, love means preservation. When you say you love something, you want to preserve and expand it. This kind of love is described as a curse, a deep hatred, and a neurosis. Whatever you touch in this kind of love, you end up destroying. The speaker points out that we are self-centered people, and the gaze of our love falls first upon ourselves, making us the first ones we poison. Real love, therefore, is not the opposite of hatred; it is the dissolution of the self, which is an accumulation of your attractions and fears. The man who truly loves himself is on an everlasting journey of self-annihilation, becoming less and less of a defined 'man' and increasingly uncertain internally.