Acharya Prashant addresses the misconception that lust and love are separate or that one must be transformed into the other. He explains that lust is to love what the manifest world is to the unmanifest truth; they are essentially one, with lust being the physical expression of the relationship between objects. He defines lust simply as the attraction, repulsion, or indifference between material objects, including the human body and mind. Since the person is an object within the realm of physical nature, or Prakriti, dwelling in lust is an inevitable and automatic part of the natural game of life, much like a child's instinctive focus on a shiny object or a nostril's reaction to an odor.
