Greatest Influencers! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Sir, from where do you get this wisdom? || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)

Transcript

00:00All the people you've read about in myth, who has been the greatest influence on your life?

00:04I'm indebted to many. I'll begin with Saint Kabir.

00:08There are all the known and unknown seers of the Vedantic literature.

00:14Among the more recent ones, we have Jiddu Krishnamurti, we have Ramana Maharshi,

00:20we have Ramakrishna Paramhansa, there is Guru Nanak Devji.

00:23Ramcharitmanas, when I read it, it captured me.

00:27Then there is the entire Sufi tradition.

00:30There is Baba Farid, there is Baba Bulleh Shah.

00:32A few pieces from Amir Khusrow stayed for long with me.

00:36Then the whole Buddhist and Zen tradition.

00:39How many do I name? And there is so much that they have given me.

00:45And the ones that I have just now named constitute only a small fraction of the ones I have gained from.