Questioner: Good evening everyone, my name is Saurabh Sardana and you are watching the first episode of season 2, ‘Recast.’ I’m so glad to have you with me today, Acharya Prashant Ji. I’m pretty sure, that most of you that most of you sort of follow him on one of the social media channels. Acharya Ji, I have done my research and I know that you have been to the best engineering college in India then you went to one of the best business schools that one can go to, then after that, I think you probably cracked you know the toughest exams in the world, which is our Indian civil services. Now, for somebody who has that kind of an achievement, you know taking the road less traveled, you know sort of going down, you know the route of spirituality, if I may say. I think is a very unique decision. So, if you can just spend a couple of minutes in understanding for our audience what really triggered this, you know how you, you know sort of traveled from best engineering college to best business school, you cracked the toughest exam in the world and then I think you started your own foundation. Just give us a gist of this journey because this journey in itself sounds fascinating.
Acharya Prashant: Saurabh, do we see that first of all, there is a strong assumption in the question and the assumption is that one’s life should be directed by even dictated by his or her education? That one’s educational qualifications should be at the center of one’s life. And I would say ‘life’ not ‘career’ because career is at the center of one’s life. Right? You are what you do.
So, what we are saying is that my degrees and my educational pedigree, which I might have obtained at the age of twenty-four, twenty-five, or twenty-eight, should then go on to drive the rest of my life.
But, think of it — Education is something I have. Education is not who I am.
