Acharya Prashant explains that becoming a guru is not about reaching a certain stage but is a matter of love and responsibility. When you see something is not right, you will speak about it. If you love someone and see them heading towards a pit, you will say something to them without first thinking whether you are a guru or not. Being a guru is not a certification but a matter of great responsibility. In this sense, everyone is a guru. To be a guru, two things are necessary: an awareness of one's duty and the helplessness that arises from love, which compels one to act. If you see someone is about to be ruined, you have to take a step. However, if these two elements—love and responsibility—are absent and you are merely showing off your knowledge, it is a despicable act. This is because you do not love the other person; you are speaking to dominate, impress, or captivate them. Instead of a sense of duty, there is opportunism. In such a case, any advice or knowledge given is useless. Being a guru is not a luxury but a compulsion, a helplessness. Using an analogy, he describes seeing a small guava tree with fruit, its branches bending in a strong wind, on the verge of breaking. It has the potential to become a large tree, but if not saved now, it will be destroyed. One is compelled to rush and tie its branches. This is being a guru: seeing the potential in someone but also realizing that if they are not saved now, they will be lost. This compulsion to act is called love. In that moment, you don't consider your skill level or whether you have a diploma in tying ropes; you act out of the intention to save. This is 'gurutā' (the quality of a guru). The primary condition for being a guru is not knowledge but the right intention, purpose, and love. Love is a great responsibility, a helplessness that compels you to act. Before helping someone, one must ask if the intention is genuinely to help the other person or to enhance one's own status. If the interest is truly in helping the other, then one should proceed, as this is the quality of a guru. Otherwise, one should not.