In response to a question about why Sufi and Bhakti poets like Kabir Saheb and Amir Khusrau emphasize affection over intellect, Acharya Prashant explains that this premise is incorrect. He states that intellect and the normal kind of affection, or attachment, actually go together. He points out that the dictionary meaning of affection is related to influence. Intellect, he clarifies, can be very attached; in fact, it will be attached. The set of things that go with intellect includes attachment, ego, exploitation, and the usual kind of emotional relationships. In contrast, what goes with intelligence is love. Acharya Prashant refutes the idea that intellect and affection are opposites. Instead, they belong to the same plane of duality. He uses the analogy of people being "dry" and "wet." The common notion is that an intellectual is dry, and a non-intellectual is wet. He asserts this is not true, as these are not opposites but belong to the same plane. The person who is dry one moment is just waiting to be drenched the next. The one who seems very dry in the office will be very wet upon reaching home. All the hours of dryness will make him even more eager to get wet. The false kind of love, which the questioner calls affection, accompanies the intellect very smoothly because both belong to the ego. He further explains that these dualities, like being dry or wet, belong to the same plane. A person acts dry only because their "wet" ambitions could not be fulfilled, and their dryness is a way of communicating their unhappiness and desire for fulfillment. He concludes by stating that one should not see differences where there are none. Intellect and affection go hand-in-hand as they both belong to the ego. What does not go with intellect is real love, not affection. Real love comes with intelligence, which is on a different plane. The saints do not display affection, which he equates with disease and affliction; they have love, which has nothing to do with affection. Affection and affliction go together, whereas affection and love never do.