 The six-day Gurupurni Magua Immersive with Maharishi Kapriti will take place from July 17th to July 22nd, 2024. The six-day Zurich Immersive will take place from August 4th to August 9th, 2024. For more information and to register, click the links in the description below. Namaskar. Well, I don't really have a question. I'm just very new to this and I just found one of your video and it just resonates with me. I've been on the passport for a while but I just couldn't get it. I got it. I was going to ask in your video. Yeah, that's it. No, no, I get it. But yeah, it feels good. But the only thing is, yeah, I found that pretty hard now to socialize though. I found people boring. Yeah. You know, if you can connect with your source, with your truth, with your soul, you know. The more you connect with your soul, through this practice that I have spoken about, the more you also connect with the soul of the other. What you find gradually is that everyone is very interesting because you just take time to actually tune into the other person because you have tuned into yourself. And then people like most unusual people who you wouldn't otherwise have thought are in any way interesting suddenly become these almost like, you know, like you're looking at something in a museum because you're going in and you're realizing, oh my God, this is a person and they've got a life and they've got yearnings and desires and they've got a history and they've got a future and they've got a past and they've got a social life that you don't understand or a background that is foreign to you. It starts to become very fascinating, this thing called living. And you don't need to watch movies anymore because each person you see is a movie. And this is something very, very fascinating about this self-realization journey because it's really not a big pain and you don't have to meditate for hours and sit there with stiff knees afterwards. And it's just about being in this moment alert, awake, alive and very soon if you take up this practice as a sadhana, sadhana meaning a practice which is done with a deep devotion and surrender, you will soon be socializing with everyone you see. So don't worry about it, take up the practice and you'll see in a little while everyone becomes an interesting being. And it's not because you're this deep, empathetic personality also because of that but you really do get interested in other people and you're not anymore looking for those interesting, charismatic, amazing beings to entertain you but you're just entertained by conversations with a neighbor or with the postman or just with someone, anyone. It's a very fascinating thing. I experience it all the time. I just can't get bored sometimes talking about the weather all the time. Oh, the weather is a very interesting thing. The thing is it's not the weather, it's the person that you're talking with. So then you're looking deeper into that person because you're looking deeper into yourself. There's no place for boredom for someone who's on this journey. So you just need to discipline yourself a bit more to follow this practice and very soon you'll be discussing the intricacies of the weather with your neighbor whom you suddenly realize is far, far deeper a being than you thought possible when you first encountered them. It's also understanding that people do have depths to them which they don't so easily reveal. You mirror the depths in themselves also. So you really have to remove all judgement. You don't have to remove anything. You focus on discerning between that loud ego and the truth impulse and as you feel more and more connected to the truth impulse the judgments fall away because they're not as interesting as the impulse of the truth. These judgments of other people arise in the ego because you're trying to compare yourself to them. It's always in a comparison, you know, they're meant actually to support these comparisons which are always anyway saying that you're better than them. When you know your own truth, you don't have to be better than anyone else. So you don't make those judgments and suddenly, you know, that overweight lady next door who's always eating sausages becomes this very interesting person who can actually come up with some amazing wisdoms which you didn't think of before. It's like an opening to an entirely new dimension of communication because the ego is saying that that person is boring. What else is saying that? Isn't the truth saying, Luru, that person is boring? That's not what the truth is saying. I think it's a louder voice saying that, right? And maybe you'll find out that you're more boring than they are. Your ego is more boring. There is a lot of work getting to know your ego because your ego has a lot of faces. You don't have to spend time getting to know your ego. That is not the sadhana. The sadhana is to spend time getting to know the truth. You turn away from the ego, you don't even need to look at it. You are focusing on the truth. Why do you want to look at the ego? And I mean, this is a simplification, obviously. We're deconstructing things so that we're dealing with the minimum number of objects in the box. So we're talking about you, Ludo, son of... What's your mother's name, Ludo? Andrei. So Ludo, son of Andrei, and where were you born, Ludo? In France. Okay, so where in France? Berzon. So Ludo, son of Andrei, from Berzon. That's your identity. That's it. Nothing more than that. And that Ludo, son of Andrei, from Berzon, is observing discerning when the ego is pushing him and when it's the truth impulse that's motivating something. That's all. And the more you go with the truth impulse and don't listen to the ego when it's telling you whatever it's telling you, judge that person or eat something you shouldn't be eating or say something you shouldn't be saying, the more you deepen in self-realization and the more you deepen in self-realization, the greater joy there is in your system. And when there is joy in the system, there's joy in all the experiences that you have. Everything is more joyous. So don't look at the ego. That's not what this sadhana or this practice is. Not. I get it. I get it. I feel it. You feel it in your body anyway. I do feel it. I don't know if it's just me, but I do feel it. I just don't... Is meditation really... I've got a lot of time on my hands, and so I'm just wondering, is meditation like the more you do the better to get fast, you know, to get there faster? Because I always had the idea that the principle was to push the ego away, and so the longer you keep it away from you, the more room you give for your soul. And so, yeah, the idea. So much of meditation will just make you strange. It pushes your awareness out of the system. It takes you out of the system. It doesn't keep you here and now. You have to be here and now. And if you have so much time on your hands, go for a walk. Go for a long walk. It's cold. I understand. Are you in Europe now? I do that every day. I've got a lot of time. So I do a walk, skateboarding, whatever I can do. I'm in Australia at the moment. Oh, you're in Australia. Oh my God. So you've got lots of outdoors stuff to do and it's warm there now. If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can also start to volunteer for something. You know, you can do some volunteering. You have to ask the truth. Is this the thing for me to do? Meditation, a little bit of meditation, a half an hour in a day. That's fine. The moment it goes into long hours of meditation, then you're also going out of your system and then you're not present. And the result is that you make even more mistakes because the ego takes over. That's what happens, you know, generally, not in all cases, but generally. So why would you want to do that? Do some volunteering, observe yourself, go for walks. And there's a lot of amazing people in Australia. I've been to Australia and I met very interesting people. I don't think that people are boring. I think it's just you are maybe afraid of talking to people or of just engaging in simple conversations and I think that you should take it up. It'll be fun. Life is a very joyous thing. Do you have a partner? No. Why don't you have a partner? You look like a nice person. I'm quite happy by myself. Well, the more you're by yourself, the bigger your ego grows. Maybe it's time to find a nice lady with whom you can spend some time. No? Too much trouble. That's true. Women are really trouble. I understand. But maybe you'll find one that's not so troublesome. A partner is a good thing. They keep your ego in line. They straighten you out. They demand from you. You have to always bend to them. All of that. It's perfect, isn't it? If it's meant to happen, it will happen. No, no, no. It doesn't work that way. That's a nice excuse. People say that when they don't want to take up something proactively. But ask your truth. Ask your truth. Your truth says, Ludo, it's time to find a partner for the game. The game is a nice game, Ludo. I just got tired of games. You have to play it in a different way now. You play it in a self-realized way. But yes, on a serious note, it is important to go out now. And I feel that you're isolating yourself too much. You're somehow not connected with the real world. And there's fear in you. And you don't have to be afraid. You're not so important in the scheme of things. So don't be afraid. Just go out there. It doesn't matter if someone says something rude to you. Then so be it. Not a big deal. You're not so important in the scheme of things. It'll be fine. Okay. You must come back once and tell us how you're doing. Namaskar, Ludo. Namaskar. The Six-Day Gurupurni Makua Immersive with Maharishi Kapriti will take place from July 17th to July 22nd, 2024. The Six-Day Zurich Immersive will take place from August 4th to August 9th, 2024. For more information and to register, click the links in the description below. We invite you to a special video live satsang with Maharishi Kapriti on Sunday, February 25th, 2024. To know more, click the link in the description below.