Acharya Prashant is an Indian author and Vedanta teacher. He is famous for teaching seventeen forms of Gita and sixty forms of Upanishad. He is the founder of the non-profit organization ‘PrashantAdvait Foundation.’
Wiki/Biography
Acharya Prashant was born as Prashant Tripathi on Tuesday, 7 March 1978 (age 45 years; in 2023) in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Childhood photos of Acharya Prashant
He studied B. Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He completed his MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2003.
Old picture of Acharya Prashant
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 9″
Hair Color: Salt & Pepper
Eye Color: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
His father, Gaurishankar, was an administrative service officer, and his mother, Savitri, a housewife.
Wife
He is not married.
Career
Corporate Work
Acharya Prashant started his career in 2003 as an assistant manager at GE Capital, a company in Gurgaon. In 2004, he joined ECS Private Limited in Gurgaon, where he worked as a Senior Consultant for more than a year. The following year, he was appointed as a Senior Manager at the media company ‘Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd’ in New Delhi. After working there for a year, he resigned in October 2006.
Advait Life Education
In 2006, Acharya Prashant started a sole proprietorship named ‘Advait Life Education’ where he introduced ‘Life Education Courses’ in various educational institutions located in different cities and states. He also introduced the ‘Student Development Program’ (SDP) and the ‘Management Development Program’ (MDP) to his students. In an interview, he revealed that he faced many difficulties when starting the company. He further added that when he realized that his teaching faculty could not achieve the desired objective, he took it upon himself to deliver lectures at the host college where he continued to travel for almost five years, because his host college was located in a different city and state. He took his first interactive lecture in 2008 and later continued to conduct open seminars. In 2011, he started recording his live sessions and started uploading them on his YouTube channel.
PrashantAdvait Foundation
In December 2015, he established a non-profit socio-spiritual organization, ‘PrashantAdvait Foundation.’ He founded the organization with the aim of eliminating the falsehood found in individuals and society as a whole. The goal is to foster a scientific and spiritual approach to self and life. Through this organization, he started conducting an online course on Advaita Vedanta (a Hindu sadhana) where he taught 17 forms of the Gita and 60 forms of the Upanishads. Besides offering Vedanta courses in his own organization, Acharya’s non-governmental organization (NGO) is actively involved in partnerships with prestigious engineering and management institutes in India. They offer Vedanta classes to the students of this institute for free, without expecting payment or donation. The organization has successfully organized online classes on Vedanta by the Acharya in reputed Indian institutions like IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, NIT Jamshedpur and Banaras Hindu University.
Publishing
He has written articles for various well-known newspapers. He has written more than 85 books on spirituality. His book, “Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong,” achieved tremendous success in August 2021, when it reached the top position on the Nielsen Bookscan bestseller list and in October 2021, it secured the eighth position on the bestseller list published by Asian era.
Cover of the book ‘Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong’
Some of his other famous books include ‘Advait in Everyday Life,’ ‘
Award
- In 2022, Acharya Prashant was awarded ‘Most Influential Vegan’ by PETA India.
Acharya Prashant received the award
- He received the Karya Siddhi Award at the iMD Awards 2022, organized by the Purush Aayog in conjunction with International Men’s Day.
Acharya Prashant received the Karya Siddhi Award
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, Acharya revealed that he was fond of reading since childhood. He revealed that he started reading about Operation Blue Star when he was five years old. He further added that he started reading classical and spiritual books at a very young age.
- While working in the corporate sector, he once taught a self-designed course called ‘Leadership Perspectives Through Literature’ at an MBA institution on weekends.
- Acharya Prashant decided to resign from his post as an Administrative Service Officer (Indian Railway Staff Officer) to guide the younger generation towards spirituality and bring about social reforms.
- In 2000, he qualified for CAT and UPSC exams. He was later also selected for the IRPS Service, which he left to teach Vedanta to the younger generation.
- Apart from teaching, Acharya Prashant takes on various other responsibilities. He actively promotes veganism, supports environmental causes, supports scientific endeavors, campaigns against superstition, and champions the interests of human freedom.
- He often lectures on TEDx.
Acharya Prashant delivered a lecture on TEDx
- He also has an app called “Acharya Prashant’ where wisdom quotes, posters, short videos, long videos and articles by Acharya are available.
- He follows a vegan diet. In an interview, she talked about veganism and said,
Veganism is nothing but the logical culmination of vegetarianism. Where did vegetarianism come from? The feeling that I’m not going to kill the animal—I don’t want to harm the animal. The same feeling finds its final expression in veganism.
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