Physical weakness does not stay physical. It becomes mental weakness, and the ego, which turns everything into an identity, starts saying “I am weak” because that line brings support and spares it responsibility. Visible strength works even unused: it keeps the opponent outside wary and silences the one within, who can no longer claim to be helpless. Keeping the body strong is therefore a spiritual matter, not vanity. Are we holding on to weakness because it is convenient?
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Arya Chaudhary, a 19-year-old mixed martial artist from Indore, won bronze for India at the 2025 IMMAF World Championships in Tbilisi. Reva Bhaduria, her younger clubmate, won bronze at the 2025 Asian MMA Championships in Lebanon. Both train under a Vikram Award–winning coach, who speaks first here.
Coach: From Arya’s side, I am very confident. Her parents are very confident. How? About her safety. Now, she comes from her home to the training club, twenty kilometres, in the morning at four o’clock. She comes alone. During the day it’s fine, but at night, she goes back again at nine-thirty, so it’s ten, ten-thirty when she gets back. So neither I nor her parents need to call to ask if Arya has reached home or not because I know she can handle three or four people.
Acharya Prashant: Have you ever had a chance to hit someone?
Questioner: No, not in a real fight. There was a little in college, but words were enough.
