Sir, how did you start your spiritual journey? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00Hi, good evening today at Entrepreneur India.

00:05We have with us Acharya Prashant, Acharya Prashant, thank you so much for talking to

00:08Entrepreneur India.

00:09Welcome.

00:10So, if you take us back to the time when the entire journey began, are there any memories

00:16you have from your childhood when you started thinking about these, I mean, philosophical

00:22teachings or towards spirituality?

00:25There isn't any one particular memorable or epiphanic incident, but it was happening

00:35almost all the time.

00:38So I was looking at the world around, how people are on the streets, in the houses,

00:50in the school, on the playground and a lot of things would strike me as odd.

01:04So observing and processing were going on all the time.

01:13So I was looking at the world and seeing suffering, discord, disharmony, fakeness and as a kid

01:29all that was getting registered and questioned, probably even disliked.

01:40So there was an urge to change the shape of things as they currently are.

01:55That's how it is.

01:56I don't remember any one particular incident, though if pressed I can probably pull out

02:04something but that won't be particularly significant.

02:12So how you were as a child, were you more into reading books of others?

02:17Yes, I was reading a lot, but I was also playing, I was also very mischievous.

02:32So you asked for incident, there is a series of incidents which we can together call as

02:43one incident which is that I was the class monitor and also the club head.

02:52They were called houses, so we had yellow house, red house, green and blue.

02:57So I was leading the yellow house.

03:03So both these are positions of responsibility and gravity, you are the class monitor and

03:08also the house leader and quite often I would be found standing outside the class in punishment.

03:19So a lot of teachers, I very fondly remember them, they had a certain liking for me.

03:30So they would come and say, you have to take responsibilities in life and once you are

03:39in class 11th, probably you will become the head boy of the school and why must you bring

03:47this upon yourself?

03:49Being the monitor of the class, why should you of all students be found being punished?

04:02So I was quite a mischievous brat, also a studious one.

04:13I like to go deep into whatever I was doing.

04:17So that led to all the academic accolades, that also led to the headache that I would

04:27cause sometimes to my family, sometimes to my teachers.

04:39When it comes to reading, the reading wasn't confined to any one particular genre.

04:47So I was hungry and I just sucked in whatever came my way, from little comic strips meant

04:58for class 2 students to somebody's PhD thesis, even if I couldn't make much of it.

05:10But if I would find a copy of something, anything, for sure I would pick it up and try to grasp

05:18what's going on.

05:22And that made me branch erratically in all directions with no particular plan or pattern,

05:34an organic kind of very natural growth.

05:43I was reading upon all things possible and when we would visit a bookstore, I would never

05:59be satisfied with the number of books purchased that particular visit.

06:07In fact, my father would specifically plan visits to bigger cities where we had more

06:15prominent bookstores, just so that we could purchase books for me.

06:22So he was an officer in government service, so sometimes he would be posted in places

06:35that were not quite big and established.

06:40So to get well-stocked bookstores, we needed to travel, and we did.

06:46So that was a bit remarkable, to travel just so that you can visit a bookstore.

06:55That was happening once every few months, and essays, poems, history, science.

07:10Father himself was quite a well-read person, so he would bring me quite an assorted set

07:25from all possible directions.

07:30So the entire stock that we had was very eclectic.

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