Acharya Prashant explains that emotions are often perceived as intimate internal experiences, leading people to vent toxicity and worthless thoughts onto those closest to them. He argues that this is not love but exploitation. True love involves being careful about the effect one's company has on others. He compares sharing every internal emotional impulse to sharing bodily waste, suggesting that just as we flush away physical rubbish, we should not burden others with our mental and emotional rubbish. Most emotions, he asserts, are merely biological and chemical processes pre-programmed within the body to serve the 'agenda of the jungle'—survival, procreation, and dominance. Identifying with these primitive instincts is a fundamental mistake because we are consciousness, not the body.