Scream this truth to yourself if you must. Whisper it if you’re afraid.
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it into your being if you care to live rightly:
Situations do not matter. My choice, and my choice alone, matters.
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About the Author
W e live in a time when lies are sold with charm, and vagueness passed
off as wisdom and entertainment as spirituality. Though materially
empowered, we are inwardly more fractured than ever. Popular culture
offers optimism, success, and fulfilment, yet quietly leaves behind fatigue
and confusion. The deeper questions—‘Who am I? What do I really want?
Why does suffering persist?’—remain buried under noise, opinion, and
false comfort. The result: personal, social, and global crises of a scale never
before seen.
Acharya Prashant speaks directly to this condition. He doesn’t decorate
the disease; he diagnoses and exposes it. His teachings hold up a mirror to
the mind. Relentlessly rational, deeply compassionate, and sharply original,
he brings fierce clarity to modern life—not as theory or mystical escape, but
as a radical dismantling of the false structures we live by.
For over a decade, he has engaged with real-life questions on love, fear,
ambition, suffering, and ego through thousands of talks, books, interviews,
and retreats. His style is unsentimental and piercing, yet full of quiet
compassion. He does not trade in hope, but offers insight. He does not
promote belief, but calls for intelligence.
Through the PrashantAdvait Foundation, he has revived interest in over
seventy classic Indic spiritual texts, including the Upanishads, the
Bhagavad Gita, and the Ashtavakra Gita. His books, courses, and public
engagements attract seekers across all age groups, professions, and walks of
life. His digital presence now forms the world’s largest repository of
wisdom literature. Today, he is the most followed wisdom teacher in the
world, with an influence growing across generations and geographies.
Recognized for his impact, he has been honoured by the IIT Delhi
Alumni Association for Outstanding Contribution to National Development,
by PETA as the Most Influential Vegan, and by the Green Society of India
as the Most Impactful Environmentalist.
His path has not been easy. He has spoken without fear, and the world
has often responded with silence, hostility, or distortion. Rooted in clarity
rather than comfort, his teachings have unsettled both religious
traditionalists and modern conformists. The media ignored him. Institutions
withheld recognition. Platforms censored him. Ritualists accused him of
blasphemy. Academics dismissed him. He has been misquoted, attacked,
shadowbanned, and deliberately excluded from spaces that claim to
welcome wisdom.
He stood alone, without lineage, endorsement, or shelter from the storm.
He refused to soften his words for approval. He never aligned with power,
courted no popularity, played to no gallery. For years, he spoke in silence,
to silence—not because he couldn’t have drawn an audience, but because
the Truth could not be diluted. That he is heard today is the outcome of
tireless labour, an unshakable inner fire, and a message the world could not
ignore. If his voice now reaches millions, it is not because the system
supported it—but because the system could not stop it.
Unaffiliated with any lineage or sect, he speaks from direct realization,
not inherited belief. This radical independence makes his voice both
fiercely original and spiritually honest, free from the weight of tradition and
the need for conformity.
In an age of noise and spectacle, he has chosen the hard path of clarity.
That is why he is not easily celebrated: he neither flatters tradition nor
panders to trends. But his teachings—scripturally grounded yet free of
dogma, rational yet spiritually fierce—mark a turning point in the history of
wisdom. In him meet the honesty of Buddha, the depth of Vedanta, and the
immediacy of the digital world—without compromise.
As the noise of the present fades, his words will remain. Long after
contemporary names are forgotten, his voice will shape how the sincere self
approaches truth. His legacy won’t be counted in fame, but in the
transformations he ignites across generations. If the 21st century is
remembered for one voice of truth, it will be his.
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Early Life & Education
Prashant Tripathi was born on the Maha Shivratri of 1978 in Agra, India.
As a child, he stood out for his depth of attention and appetite for
knowledge. He topped the ICSE board exams and was an NTSE scholar, yet
his real education began beyond the classroom—through unrestrained
reading, self-inquiry, and silent observation. With support from his father, a
well-read bureaucrat, he explored books of every kind, laying the
groundwork for a mind that would question everything.
In school and college, he emerged as a champion speaker, actor, and poet
—respected for his command of both Hindi and English. He won national
debates, directed acclaimed plays, and led intellectually vibrant cultural
forums. Yet, even in the midst of success, he felt deeply out of place. The
celebration of intellect without depth, ambition without meaning, left him
restless. He felt inwardly estranged in institutions others idolized.
He graduated from IIT Delhi and later from IIM Ahmedabad, holding the
rare distinction of clearing both CAT and UPSC in the same year. Even so,
the world of conventional careers never held his interest for long. During
his three-year corporate stint, he began using his weekends to teach
leadership through wisdom literature. This initiative became the seed of a
much larger movement.
Advait Life: Education & HIDP
