The Influencers you follow on social media || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Roorkee (2022)
Welcome: Namaskar Acharyaji, my colleagues, students, ladies and gentlemen. I was wondering how to welcome, but I forgot it all once I saw Acharyaji. I felt as if I have known him since centuries, such is his brilliance. Perhaps many people here do not know Sanskrit. Acharyaji has reached the three utmost points, be it from IIT Delhi, B.Tech, or from IIM Ahmedabad, which is the highest institute in management or the Civil Services. And after doing all this, we are obliged that he has come here in the question-answer session. You are very welcome Acharya ji.
I am glad that Acharyaji is here with us when IIT Roorkee is in its 175th year. I know that a lot of people are very eager and prepared to ask questions. I will not take much time here but would like to share that when Anil ji asked me to welcome Acharya ji here, many questions aroused in my mind.
What struck me the most was that although we have developed so much, our mind has developed so much that we have developed into a complete human being form from a single cell plasma, have we yet not won over fear? Has there been an evolution of fear also along with our evolution from single cell to this human form? May be it has happened.
As we know from Hindu mythology, from the avatars, it could be that there was fear of Earth being immersed in water or measuring ‘teen-lok’ or if we talk about Tretayug, there could be fear of oaths or of kingdoms. So, I believe that we have not been able to understand fear and I hope that we are guided by Acharyaji in the question-answer session today.
Since morning I have been thinking about the three types of fears, one is for the fear for kingdom, which was there in the era of Krishna ji. But that fear is no more now because we pay taxes for our forces, we are patriotic. And the other is fear of the society. There are people like Acharya ji who reform the society and we have our religious leaders too. And we have one more fear which is individual fear that we have in our minds.
