Acharya Prashant responds to a question from a self-proclaimed worldly man who finds it difficult to live truthfully. The speaker begins by reading two verses from the Ashtavakra Gita. The first verse describes a state of equanimity: being equal in pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment, life and death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest. The second verse advises looking at friends, land, money, property, and wife as nothing but a dream or a temporary magician's show. The speaker clarifies that these verses are not teachings but descriptions. He uses an analogy: if you are thirsty, you don't need to be taught to drink water; merely demonstrating the water is enough. Similarly, for one burning with peacelessness, the description of peace is sufficient. The teachings of the sages are descriptions, and if one is truly seeking, merely describing the way to the river is enough; one doesn't need to be told to "go." If one still needs to be told to go, it's a blemish on the power of the description. The verses of Ashtavakra are descriptions of a state of being. If they don't tempt you, you should engage with those who are tempted. Acharya Prashant then deconstructs the term "worldly man," calling it a misleading expression. There is no objective "the world"; there is only "my world," which is constituted by the company one keeps. When you say, "I am a worldly man," you mean you are in the company of a few people. He advises examining the quality of this company, as a man is known by the company he keeps. The spiritual quotient of a person is the average of their contacts. He asks the questioner to check if the people in his life are with "the One" (the Truth). If they are not, their company will pull him away from the One. Conversely, the company of someone like Ashtavakra would pull him towards the One. The conflict is between your world and the One, and one has to lose. Your world is a self-created nest, a result of your deliberate agreements and choices. You must ask yourself, who are the people who constitute your world? Are they people who are with the One?