Acharya Prashant explains that love is not blind; it is highly discriminatory and conditional, and one cannot love nonsense. He distinguishes between compassion and love, stating that while it is one thing to help, purify, or be compassionate towards something, it is an entirely different thing to love it. Love is not something that can be directed towards everyone and everything. Love means that the beloved is someone you would want to be absolutely like, to merge into, and to unite with completely. Therefore, if someone is in an unhealthy state, you can be compassionate and help them, but you would not want to become like them, so that cannot be love. Love is demanding, and the object of love must be very worthy. The quality of a person's life can be determined by the quality of the one they choose to love. This principle applies to self-love as well. Self-love is only possible when the self is worthy of being loved. For real self-love to occur, the petty, divided, and confused self must be elevated to a point where it is clean, shining, expansive, and fearless. The state of aloneness and the state of self-love are one and the same; in aloneness, one has become worthy of love, whereas, in loneliness, one despises oneself. The statement "loneliness is love" is a euphemism. Loneliness is love in the sense that it is the pain of separation from the real beloved. It is like the tears shed upon being separated from the one you love. The feeling of loneliness signifies that there is a separation, and this separation hurts only those who are in love. This does not mean loneliness is a desirable state, but its existence serves as a reminder that the beloved is missing.