Acharya Prashant addresses the question of being needy in love by differentiating between lower and higher desires. He explains that lower desires, when fulfilled, only proliferate, causing one to remain desirous as the desire merely changes its name and form. In contrast, a higher desire is one that, when addressed, dissolves for good. He states that it is alright to be needy, but one must know their fundamental need. Without this knowledge, a person will shop for all the wrong things in the world's marketplace, which will supply whatever is demanded. If one calls something ordinary their need, they will only receive ordinariness, which is unhelpful. At the highest level, Acharya Prashant explains, need, desire, and love are one. Your beloved should be your biggest need and biggest desire. He emphasizes that, principally, love must be self-centric; it has to begin with oneself, not with somebody else. The object of your love should be the object of your deepest respect, which is reverence or devotion. In such a state, there is no scope for attachment or possessiveness because one is looking at something tremendous that cannot be possessed. He clarifies that getting attached is one thing, while getting devoted and dissolved is a totally different thing. Acharya Prashant points out that our education system fails to teach about real love, leading people to mistake biological or social phenomena, like hormonal urges or attraction to luminous objects, for love. He then defines maturity using the analogy of a ripe fruit that leaves the tree. Maturity is when one is no longer compulsorily dependent on their physicality and can transcend the body's compulsions, including thoughts and feelings. As long as a person is body-driven, thought-driven, and emotion-driven without discretion, they are immature. Maturity is not necessarily a function of age but of the level of consciousness. When the physical world does not remain "too much" for you, you are approaching maturity.