From Corporate Life to Yoga The Journey of Finding True Purpose and Confidence

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Uh, not so bad. Okay. Mhm. Mix mixed response. What is that? Mixed feelings. Like what? Like I'm good, not so bad. Somewhere in middle. So that is called yoga in the middle. That's true. Yeah. Balanced. Yeah.

So, what is this uh the journey from IAT, I am then yoga. How does it feel like? Okay. So, it was NIT. Uh uh I I could not get admission to IIT. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. So, it was so Yeah. I was into corporate so I went into a conventional education system. I did job in corporate for 10 years. Mhm. I e-commerce industry but uh that was not but like you know NIT is or NATI these schools are like you know very tough to get into and it is very hard to uh get admissions also like you know. Um how was it like for you like what was changed on you at that particular time to this particular time?

See at that time uh I was I was very young. Mhm. I was very young. I was 18 years old 19 years old. So I was doing uh what I would see uh my community or my parents would like me to do. Mhm. Mhm. So my goal was very typical like to get into a good college do a job earn and that was the definition of being independent, selfsufficient.

But in the back of my mind I knew that I have to uh do something for the community because my childhood entire childhood I have spent in uh Dante, Bacheli, Kirandul which are nakulite areas in southern part of Chhattisgarh. Okay.

Where I have seen uh the situation of tribal population very closely. Mhm. Mhm. Um so I so in the back of my head I knew that my education or my work or anything will will actually be fulfilled if I am able to do something for the community something something uh something more uh connecting something more um uh more effective for them something which is beyond just doing a job. So when you are doing a job or when you're serving in a company, you're not you're not actually directly contributing anything for the community. Mhm. The situation of your people, your country's people, people who are not so privileged is still the same. Nothing has changed.

And you are and you are and I felt that I am giving all my energy, my mind, my soul, everything to a corporate. Mhm. Mhm. Which I did not find extremely satisfying from my core. Mhm. And I did that for 10 years. I also so but I was not confident enough to take this plunge to do something of my