Acharya Prashant explains that becoming a toy for someone's lust does not bring peace or progress; it only makes one feel used. He questions why this is called love, attributing the misconception to conditioning from films and society, where physical intimacy between a boy and a girl is portrayed as love. He asserts that people would not call this love if they hadn't been taught to do so through various media. This conditioning leads people to perform acts in the name of love that have no connection to it. He defines true love as the well-being, betterment, and progress of the other. Love is the willingness to incur a loss for the other's benefit. In contrast, exploiting the other, making demands, or imposing conditions is not love. He emphasizes that love is not a cheap or common thing that simply happens when one grows up or due to hormonal changes. Love must be learned, and it is a great achievement to learn it even after 40 or 50 years. He dismisses the mockery that one would then love only in old age, pointing out that this view wrongly equates love with sex. Love, he clarifies, is something that deepens and sweetens with age. It is not natural like a burp; physical actions are natural, but love is not physical and therefore not natural. Love is an achievement of spiritual practice (sadhana). It requires bringing the mind to a state of cleanliness and fearlessness, where it can place the other's welfare above its own. This requires immense effort and education of the mind. Love is not something that happens to just anyone like indigestion or a virus. He concludes that the mind needs tremendous education and purification to learn love. One must understand life and the world. Most people, he states, die without understanding even the first letter of love. They may have engaged in many foolish acts in its name, deceiving themselves and others, but they have never truly loved or been loved. Loving is the work of the rare, the brave, the sorted, and the fearless. The path that leads to freedom from one's own bondages, the path that transforms you from who you were before, is the path of love.