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Prashant Tripathi (born March 7, 1978), frequently referred to as Acharya Prashant, is a spiritual teacher based in  Greater Noida, India. He founded the non-profit Prashant Advait and Advait Life-Education Foundations which organize unique learning camps, clarity sessions and student and management development programs in various cities of India and abroad.

Early Life and Education
Acharya Prashant was born in Agra to a bureaucrat father and a homemaker mother. In his childhood, he was a voracious reader spending most of his time reading some of the world’s best literature, including spiritual texts like the Upanishads. He graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in engineering. He subsequently gained admission to both the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). After finishing his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Acharya Prashant spent the next few years working in various corporate firms.

Advait Life-Education and Prashant Advait Foundation
Disillusioned with traditional career routes, at the age of twenty eight Acharya Prashant quit his corporate life and started Advait Life-Education Foundation with the aim of ‘creation of a new humanity through intelligent spirituality’. He created self-development courses for college students where ancient wisdom literature was taken to students in the form of simplified texts and engaging activities. At the age of xx, Acharya Prashant realized the need to expand the Advait movement beyond the audience of college students and created the Prashant Advait Foundation (PAF). Under PAF's banner, Acharya Prashant started speaking in his shabd-yog or clarity sessions. These sessions were held as open discussions and were perceived by attendees as being deeply meditative and transformative. Subsequently, PAF's activities were expanded to include regular three and four-day self-awareness camps or bodh shivirs which were organized in major cities of India and also in the Himalayas.

Acharya Prashant has been invited to give talks at various institutions namely Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Lovely Professional University, The NorthCap University and Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College. .

YouTube Channels
Acharya Prashant's official YouTube channels consist largely of recordings of his numerous shabd-yog sessions. Acharya Prashant's Hindi YouTube Channel Acharya Prashant's English YouTube Channel

Books
Acharya Prashant has authored several books which have been developed from his discourses over the years. Some of the titles are as follows,
 * Book of Myths, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt. Ltd. (2017)
 * Advait in Everyday Life, Lightning Source (2018)
 * Acharya Prashant with Students, PrashantAdvait Foundation (2017)
 * A Flying Kiss to the Sky, PrashantAdvait Foundation (2016)
 * The Lover You Have Been Missing, Gullybaba Publishing House Pvt Ltd (2017)
 * Body, Intimacy and Sex, Diamond Books Pvt. Ltd. (2017)
 * Fear, PrashantAdvait Foundation (2015)
 * Milestons to Success, PrashantAdvait Foundation (2015)
 * Commentaries on Ashtavakra Gita, PrashantAdvait Foundation (2016)