Acharya Prashant addresses a question about being needy in love by distinguishing between lower and higher desires. He explains that lower desires function in a way that fulfilling them only causes them to proliferate; the more you fulfill them, the more you remain desirous, with the desire at most changing its name and form. In contrast, a higher desire is one that, if addressed, dissolves for good. He states that it is alright to be needy, provided one knows their fundamental need. If one is unaware of what they truly need, they will seek fulfillment in the wrong things from the world, which he likens to a vast marketplace that supplies whatever is demanded. Seeking ordinary things will only result in receiving ordinariness, which does not provide what one truly requires. At the highest level, Acharya Prashant explains, need, desire, and love are one. Your beloved should be your biggest need, your biggest desire, and your love. He clarifies that this love must be self-centric, beginning with oneself and the question of what one truly requires from life. The object of this love should be the object of one's deepest respect, which is reverence or devotion. In such a state, there is no room for attachment or possessiveness, as one cannot dream of possessing something so tremendous. He laments that education does not teach about love, leaving people to mistake biological urges or social conditioning for it. Without this teaching, people take the wrong thing as love. In response to a question about maturity, Acharya Prashant uses the analogy of a ripe fruit that detaches from its tree and the physical ecosystem it came from. Maturity, he says, is when one is no longer compulsorily dependent on their physicality. It is the ability to override and transcend the body and its compulsions, which include thoughts, feelings, and instincts, as these are all bodily phenomena. A child, for example, is entirely driven by its physicality and can be attached but cannot truly love. Maturity is when you can transcend the urges of the body, the instincts, the thoughts, and the feelings; then you deserve to be called mature. Acharya Prashant clarifies that maturity is not necessarily a function of physical age, as an eighty-year-old can be immature while a young person can display great maturity. Respect, he asserts, should be given to the level of one's consciousness, not their age. As consciousness rises, one becomes less dependent on and enslaved by the physical world. When the physical world, including one's own body, no longer seems overwhelming or irresistible, and one has the discretion to see what is going on, then one is approaching maturity.