Questioner: Acharya Ji, I think this question may be on behalf of many of us sitting in this auditorium. Every student sitting in this auditorium had a dream not of getting admission in Lakshminarayanan Institute of Technology (where the session is being held), but getting into IITs. Then, after IIT, what most of the time, the trend we follow the trend and the trend is IIM. Then many IITians get into IAS. And this is the dream of many young Indians, young minds who are studying, and also of the parents, most of the parents, of course, those who know about the IITs, IIMs, and finally the civil services.
Acharya Ji, you achieved all. You did your Bachelor's in topmost IIT, you did your management from topmost IIM, and also immediately, you got into civil services. So, even one of (2.00) these three will satisfy anybody in this country, and his whole family will just rejoice and start dancing, maybe. You achieved all this; you got all three top things, not just one of them.
And later on, you have chosen a very, very different path. And today we are listening to you. Of course, I listened to a few of your videos earlier also; and then when I got to know about you more from Wikipedia, then I came to know about your qualifications also. So exactly what happened? Because it is not the case that, you wanted to get into IIT so you topped JEE; you wanted to get into IIM, so you cracked the CAT; and you wanted to get into civil services, so you were one of the IAS toppers. Then what? This is, of course not exactly I have phrased it as a question but I’m curious to know about it. Thank you.
Acharya Prashant: See, the first thing is that, very humbly I would like to say that, the way my academic or other achievements have been very gracefully and rather magnanimously portrayed, they have been made to look bigger than they actually are.
