[Music]
[Applause]
hello everyone so they say life is a
journey right so when you hear the word
journey the convention is to think that
there is a point a in the point of
origin and there is a point V at the
point of destination now how do you
measure success very simple whether you
reach the point B or not but here what
Picasso wants to say is that when you
begin can begin with an idea the idea
somehow in the way in the churning tends
to change and with it it changes you
so when you start and when you start
your journey you may not reach point
where you reach someplace else
now this someplace else is not the point
be where you want it to go when you
began your journey but that’s that sound
place else is where you are right now
and that my friends does not necessarily
mean a bad thing or a failure now take
for example Columbus the star of his
journey to find a new route to India
instead what did he do he found
Caribbean islands now what’s that a
failure you know it wasn’t a failure but
that’s how we have been groomed up we
have been wired up to think that we are
only successful if we reach the point B
we have to begin with the end in our
mind we should not rest until we reach
our destination but this doesn’t always
happen I’ll talk about my life’s journey
like Columbus I studied here at villa
high school and my my scold is my whole
aim of student life was every day to do
as many mischief as possible for as many
school laws as possible I was true to my
name Paresh Rawal
as you know the notorious villain or the
famous comedian however you see him and
often my name was when my principal’s
blacklist I was the usual suspect
so whenever something went wrong in
school the fasting principal did was hey
let’s call this guy so he knew he that
he has done it or he must be moving who
has done it
so those are my school days when I came
here college I studied here in the
morning for college I had exactly
opposite inclinations I wanted to know I
wanted to find out the deeper meanings
of life I wanted to know what is the
purpose of life where is the true
happiness is there something like a God
so with these questions with these
queries at the age of 21 when I finished
my graduation when most of us pursue our
career I embarked on a very different
journey on a spiritual journey and I
became a monk yes a monk and little sins
because when I say I was among people
don’t understand what I mean I renounced
everything and left the world and went
over the remote location to find out the
hidden secrets of life I studied
Sanskrit to read the so called holy in
sacred test and and understand the
deeper meanings I went to places like
Haridwar and remote locations and this
gave me an opportunity to understand and
observe life from a very close quarter
and then in my spiritual journey my
understanding of organized religion and
spirituality changed forever rather say
it evolved and with it it evolved to me
it changed me now for this new
understand understanding of life of
one’s own self I have somehow came to
the conclusion that I do not want to
continue as a monk I imagine at the age
of 33 after 12 years as a monk I had I
was at the junction I had to make a
decision
the should I change their route right
now or not I met many people who are
walking with me on the same path who
also wanted to change their path take a
new road but they had this fear the fear
that they might fail in the new path or
the fear that people might criticize
them for failing in their this existing
journey
however I went with my passion and while
my faith in myself the most original
things that made me walk on this path
with those things I decided to come back
and I came back and when he came back
according to the world what happened I
was a failure wife I have failed to
reach the point again and when I came
back trust me I had nothing with me and
when I say nothing I don’t just mean
money
I have no identity of myself I didn’t
have a single government ID to prove
that my name was Paresh Rawal I had this
hot haircut with the old name which
obviously eventually I managed to get
changed
but I have nothing so a new journey
began with the struggle of finding my
identity back I went to my old school I
came here to college to get my academic
certificates I went even went to a local
counselor he gave me on the admission
letter yes your name is this and isn’t
this so with all those things in place I
eventually managed to get this a bank
card it must be looking very
insignificant to you what’s that big
deal in a handcart but for me it meant a
worried when I got my Vanguard it was
such an exhilarating moment I called
everyone hey I got my pen card I got
this
I was calling everybody was like yeah so
what but for a little bit meant a great
deal
imagine how cutoff I was with the world
when it came back people told me I came
to know that my own sister had got
married and she had a son they told me
hey this is your nephew Markin and I do
not know about him my childhood friends
they had the kids of their own
I felt so misplaced
Adhan did not know how to fit in how to
gel him and all these things make me
question my decision did I do the right
thing of coming back should I have
stayed there but then something within
me that told me no you have done the
right thing keep on moving and then in
my new journey I realized that yes I was
on
yes I was bad but I was not back on the
square one
in fact I’d seen various squares of life
and my friend’s life is a circle it’s
not square so I had not reached point B
but I’d reached point C right and I was
like I found my Caribbean islands so in
I realized that in my previous journey I
got answers to my queries yes the
outcome was not the same the answers
were not the same which had expected to
be but the answers and the queries with
queries which I had they were answered
so what this new experience of life that
which I got from my previous life and
this new answers I bought my new journey
like the Gryffindor sward this war takes
in whatever makes you stronger all these
experiences were now an unreasonable
part of me so for this new experiences
and understanding of life I started my
new journey I started my career with the
help of my childhood friend with age as
a recruitment specialist now imagine my
first job was to give other people job
it was such a feel-good factor I guess
and I’m giving it a people job but then
everybody each and every day I was
observing and learning new technologies
you know when I opened my bank account
to the help of that pan god I had I open
a bank account and they gave me this ATM
card trust me I had no clue what to do
with an ATM card because when I left the
word 2002 the digitalization was
rendered process and after that had no
reason to use ATM card so still instead
of cribbing about the new technology how
things work how will I fit in I started
learning it observing the new technology
and that we fast forward a bit and tell
you tell you that last year I got I
married I got married to my wife
burner it on an online dating app so
yeah so online dating have also had
point season does not talk about it
right now so then I learned the new
technology instead of giving about it
and I started when you journey I imagine
when I came I saw that everyone around
me is some unsettled know settled in
their social life in their family life
in their career life and I wasn’t how I
can imagine the immense social and peer
pressure that you have to not settle
down like me settle or normally they say
settle oh yeah
so I do want to settle down to prove the
world that yes I have not failed I was
in complete control of my life so kind
of proof that one I want to settle down
so I was settling down in my job life
and everything was moving fine then one
fine day again I had the shower idea you
know let’s start a new venture let’s
quit the job and let’s do something
unique now okay may have also the
junction of life will have to make a
decision that I should I quit this life
and start a new one or should I keep on
pursuing this the road I was now this I
had no nothing no this thing I had no
compulsion this time to embark on a new
journey on the contrary had all the
standard reasoning to stay on the path I
was walking in my saved job styles life
but it might sound crazy to you I did
quit my job and started a new online
ventures with my cousin Martin and we
started the new online venture and we
did all my shows so as per our dreams
that we can provide an online platform
and people can come and meet their
celebrities online so we started doing
doing this shows because the faith my
point was that faith we had to keep on
moving the face
as in the night of Guru theorem is not a
goal so we should remember his quotation
that he told that they is a bird which
starts singing even before the town so
there are many people say that bird is
very optimistic it’s like yeah the dawn
is going to come many pessimistic people
might say Kay do not count your chickens
before the eggs are hatched but to my
understanding the bird is neither
optimistic or pessimistic what I
understand this bird has already seen
that dawn and that is the reason it is
singing then it becomes a material for
the bird whether other people see that
down or not the bird has already seen
the terms with that faith we moved on
and then we reach to a point where we
had to make a decision the decision of
leaving the city the city of joy the
city where I had all the support system
or my friends and families and go to
city of dreams
the Mumbai unknown place where I had no
support system but we took the leap of
faith and we went to Mumbai to pursue
our dream the pursue mine you quit my
job pursue my new startup so we reached
Mumbai with this new idea the new point
B of my life now let’s do this online
startup and then nothing banned
according to the plan and we faced so
many hardships which I bet most of the
startups today faced I remember times
when I’m sitting at an TV station with
limited financial and support system
what to do but we kept on doing things
kept on moving then we did couple of
online shows and then we didn’t show
talk show in this talk show we named it
on earth on earth on earth in Hindi
mission or phobia and on earth to
excavate so we need the show on earth on
earth and the topic of discussion was
the psychology of the rapist the in
order to go and find out the root reason
why people rave
and find out the solution at a hoot
level we had a great panel of speakers
and that motivated us to keep on going
and keep on doing things like this the
show was a success – not a financial one
but what it gave me was a success
because it gave me that clarity I found
out what is giving me the driving what
is giving me satisfaction what is giving
me happiness doing solving social
problems doing something for the society
that is what I was driving me so we did
this show I also became a part of an
ingénue which runs a school in a very
remote location in Odisha so when even
finna go there when these privileged
less privileged kids get education and I
see a smile on their face that’s given
me satisfaction so I kept on doing this
thing in after or not on earth in Mumbai
we came up with another idea we wanted
to solve the problems in Mumbai City and
Mumbai city is very different and it’s a
completely different ballgame if you
want to understand its nobility thing so
Mumbai suburban global system or life
frankness they call it local drinks as
we call it it’s a completely different
thing so we try to understand what is
happening in Mumbai suburban system in
trying to find out some solution to it
so we came up with this idea of Suffern
Suffern Suffern him being like doing
journey and suffering so why you need to
be you have this word because let me
give me brief that what is Mumbai
suburban system transportation system
and local trains eight million people
travel every day in local trains every
single day 80 lakh people more than
three thousand services in a day and
sadly ten deaths per day so this
motivated me inspired me to do something
about it now we are living the city of
Mumbai we should do something about it
so then I had group focus group
discussions and we started to talk
people
and then being wounded came across to
someone idea hope you solve it and with
the finally working on this idea a
public policy think-tank approached me
to work on it and under the evil
guidance of mr. Vivek zai whose former
chairman really born of an organization
which employs his the topmost person of
the organization which employs more than
a million people so there is guidance we
started to work on this idea and that it
from the idea evolved that we ended up
making an entire timetable for the day
Mumbai suburban system something which
we had never envisaged though this
timetable has not been implemented yet
but it the making of it the doing of it
gave a lot of satisfaction so to sum it
all I would have to say that it’s been
quite a journey going to suffer up till
now so what the bottom line is that
reaching point B is not the measurement
of success point C will eventually
become your new point B the journey is
important the faith in yourself is
important ideas will keep changing and
whether it will change you it will
evolve you and these changes when you
connect the dots backward as Steve Jobs
says with all make sense these
experiences are very important in your
life and what I at the end of the day
you should not have regrets this is very
important I do not have regrets in my
life
the regret I see many people have of not
choosing their career not using the life
partner not doing the things they have
to do I chose my life I chose my career
I do I travel to places where I want to
at the end of the day you should not be
full of regrets you should be content
many people ask me that you are a monk
so you have some secret mantra or what I
don’t have any secret mantra let me tell
you but this quotation does inspire me
never we are starting fear never
starting I hope it inspires YouTube
you
[Applause]
hello everyone so they say life is a
journey right so when you hear the word
journey the convention is to think that
there is a point a in the point of
origin and there is a point V at the
point of destination now how do you
measure success very simple whether you
reach the point B or not but here what
Picasso wants to say is that when you
begin can begin with an idea the idea
somehow in the way in the churning tends
to change and with it it changes you
so when you start and when you start
your journey you may not reach point
where you reach someplace else
now this someplace else is not the point
be where you want it to go when you
began your journey but that’s that sound
place else is where you are right now
and that my friends does not necessarily
mean a bad thing or a failure now take
for example Columbus the star of his
journey to find a new route to India
instead what did he do he found
Caribbean islands now what’s that a
failure you know it wasn’t a failure but
that’s how we have been groomed up we
have been wired up to think that we are
only successful if we reach the point B
we have to begin with the end in our
mind we should not rest until we reach
our destination but this doesn’t always
happen I’ll talk about my life’s journey
like Columbus I studied here at villa
high school and my my scold is my whole
aim of student life was every day to do
as many mischief as possible for as many
school laws as possible I was true to my
name Paresh Rawal
as you know the notorious villain or the
famous comedian however you see him and
often my name was when my principal’s
blacklist I was the usual suspect
so whenever something went wrong in
school the fasting principal did was hey
let’s call this guy so he knew he that
he has done it or he must be moving who
has done it
so those are my school days when I came
here college I studied here in the
morning for college I had exactly
opposite inclinations I wanted to know I
wanted to find out the deeper meanings
of life I wanted to know what is the
purpose of life where is the true
happiness is there something like a God
so with these questions with these
queries at the age of 21 when I finished
my graduation when most of us pursue our
career I embarked on a very different
journey on a spiritual journey and I
became a monk yes a monk and little sins
because when I say I was among people
don’t understand what I mean I renounced
everything and left the world and went
over the remote location to find out the
hidden secrets of life I studied
Sanskrit to read the so called holy in
sacred test and and understand the
deeper meanings I went to places like
Haridwar and remote locations and this
gave me an opportunity to understand and
observe life from a very close quarter
and then in my spiritual journey my
understanding of organized religion and
spirituality changed forever rather say
it evolved and with it it evolved to me
it changed me now for this new
understand understanding of life of
one’s own self I have somehow came to
the conclusion that I do not want to
continue as a monk I imagine at the age
of 33 after 12 years as a monk I had I
was at the junction I had to make a
decision
the should I change their route right
now or not I met many people who are
walking with me on the same path who
also wanted to change their path take a
new road but they had this fear the fear
that they might fail in the new path or
the fear that people might criticize
them for failing in their this existing
journey
however I went with my passion and while
my faith in myself the most original
things that made me walk on this path
with those things I decided to come back
and I came back and when he came back
according to the world what happened I
was a failure wife I have failed to
reach the point again and when I came
back trust me I had nothing with me and
when I say nothing I don’t just mean
money
I have no identity of myself I didn’t
have a single government ID to prove
that my name was Paresh Rawal I had this
hot haircut with the old name which
obviously eventually I managed to get
changed
but I have nothing so a new journey
began with the struggle of finding my
identity back I went to my old school I
came here to college to get my academic
certificates I went even went to a local
counselor he gave me on the admission
letter yes your name is this and isn’t
this so with all those things in place I
eventually managed to get this a bank
card it must be looking very
insignificant to you what’s that big
deal in a handcart but for me it meant a
worried when I got my Vanguard it was
such an exhilarating moment I called
everyone hey I got my pen card I got
this
I was calling everybody was like yeah so
what but for a little bit meant a great
deal
imagine how cutoff I was with the world
when it came back people told me I came
to know that my own sister had got
married and she had a son they told me
hey this is your nephew Markin and I do
not know about him my childhood friends
they had the kids of their own
I felt so misplaced
Adhan did not know how to fit in how to
gel him and all these things make me
question my decision did I do the right
thing of coming back should I have
stayed there but then something within
me that told me no you have done the
right thing keep on moving and then in
my new journey I realized that yes I was
on
yes I was bad but I was not back on the
square one
in fact I’d seen various squares of life
and my friend’s life is a circle it’s
not square so I had not reached point B
but I’d reached point C right and I was
like I found my Caribbean islands so in
I realized that in my previous journey I
got answers to my queries yes the
outcome was not the same the answers
were not the same which had expected to
be but the answers and the queries with
queries which I had they were answered
so what this new experience of life that
which I got from my previous life and
this new answers I bought my new journey
like the Gryffindor sward this war takes
in whatever makes you stronger all these
experiences were now an unreasonable
part of me so for this new experiences
and understanding of life I started my
new journey I started my career with the
help of my childhood friend with age as
a recruitment specialist now imagine my
first job was to give other people job
it was such a feel-good factor I guess
and I’m giving it a people job but then
everybody each and every day I was
observing and learning new technologies
you know when I opened my bank account
to the help of that pan god I had I open
a bank account and they gave me this ATM
card trust me I had no clue what to do
with an ATM card because when I left the
word 2002 the digitalization was
rendered process and after that had no
reason to use ATM card so still instead
of cribbing about the new technology how
things work how will I fit in I started
learning it observing the new technology
and that we fast forward a bit and tell
you tell you that last year I got I
married I got married to my wife
burner it on an online dating app so
yeah so online dating have also had
point season does not talk about it
right now so then I learned the new
technology instead of giving about it
and I started when you journey I imagine
when I came I saw that everyone around
me is some unsettled know settled in
their social life in their family life
in their career life and I wasn’t how I
can imagine the immense social and peer
pressure that you have to not settle
down like me settle or normally they say
settle oh yeah
so I do want to settle down to prove the
world that yes I have not failed I was
in complete control of my life so kind
of proof that one I want to settle down
so I was settling down in my job life
and everything was moving fine then one
fine day again I had the shower idea you
know let’s start a new venture let’s
quit the job and let’s do something
unique now okay may have also the
junction of life will have to make a
decision that I should I quit this life
and start a new one or should I keep on
pursuing this the road I was now this I
had no nothing no this thing I had no
compulsion this time to embark on a new
journey on the contrary had all the
standard reasoning to stay on the path I
was walking in my saved job styles life
but it might sound crazy to you I did
quit my job and started a new online
ventures with my cousin Martin and we
started the new online venture and we
did all my shows so as per our dreams
that we can provide an online platform
and people can come and meet their
celebrities online so we started doing
doing this shows because the faith my
point was that faith we had to keep on
moving the face
as in the night of Guru theorem is not a
goal so we should remember his quotation
that he told that they is a bird which
starts singing even before the town so
there are many people say that bird is
very optimistic it’s like yeah the dawn
is going to come many pessimistic people
might say Kay do not count your chickens
before the eggs are hatched but to my
understanding the bird is neither
optimistic or pessimistic what I
understand this bird has already seen
that dawn and that is the reason it is
singing then it becomes a material for
the bird whether other people see that
down or not the bird has already seen
the terms with that faith we moved on
and then we reach to a point where we
had to make a decision the decision of
leaving the city the city of joy the
city where I had all the support system
or my friends and families and go to
city of dreams
the Mumbai unknown place where I had no
support system but we took the leap of
faith and we went to Mumbai to pursue
our dream the pursue mine you quit my
job pursue my new startup so we reached
Mumbai with this new idea the new point
B of my life now let’s do this online
startup and then nothing banned
according to the plan and we faced so
many hardships which I bet most of the
startups today faced I remember times
when I’m sitting at an TV station with
limited financial and support system
what to do but we kept on doing things
kept on moving then we did couple of
online shows and then we didn’t show
talk show in this talk show we named it
on earth on earth on earth in Hindi
mission or phobia and on earth to
excavate so we need the show on earth on
earth and the topic of discussion was
the psychology of the rapist the in
order to go and find out the root reason
why people rave
and find out the solution at a hoot
level we had a great panel of speakers
and that motivated us to keep on going
and keep on doing things like this the
show was a success – not a financial one
but what it gave me was a success
because it gave me that clarity I found
out what is giving me the driving what
is giving me satisfaction what is giving
me happiness doing solving social
problems doing something for the society
that is what I was driving me so we did
this show I also became a part of an
ingénue which runs a school in a very
remote location in Odisha so when even
finna go there when these privileged
less privileged kids get education and I
see a smile on their face that’s given
me satisfaction so I kept on doing this
thing in after or not on earth in Mumbai
we came up with another idea we wanted
to solve the problems in Mumbai City and
Mumbai city is very different and it’s a
completely different ballgame if you
want to understand its nobility thing so
Mumbai suburban global system or life
frankness they call it local drinks as
we call it it’s a completely different
thing so we try to understand what is
happening in Mumbai suburban system in
trying to find out some solution to it
so we came up with this idea of Suffern
Suffern Suffern him being like doing
journey and suffering so why you need to
be you have this word because let me
give me brief that what is Mumbai
suburban system transportation system
and local trains eight million people
travel every day in local trains every
single day 80 lakh people more than
three thousand services in a day and
sadly ten deaths per day so this
motivated me inspired me to do something
about it now we are living the city of
Mumbai we should do something about it
so then I had group focus group
discussions and we started to talk
people
and then being wounded came across to
someone idea hope you solve it and with
the finally working on this idea a
public policy think-tank approached me
to work on it and under the evil
guidance of mr. Vivek zai whose former
chairman really born of an organization
which employs his the topmost person of
the organization which employs more than
a million people so there is guidance we
started to work on this idea and that it
from the idea evolved that we ended up
making an entire timetable for the day
Mumbai suburban system something which
we had never envisaged though this
timetable has not been implemented yet
but it the making of it the doing of it
gave a lot of satisfaction so to sum it
all I would have to say that it’s been
quite a journey going to suffer up till
now so what the bottom line is that
reaching point B is not the measurement
of success point C will eventually
become your new point B the journey is
important the faith in yourself is
important ideas will keep changing and
whether it will change you it will
evolve you and these changes when you
connect the dots backward as Steve Jobs
says with all make sense these
experiences are very important in your
life and what I at the end of the day
you should not have regrets this is very
important I do not have regrets in my
life
the regret I see many people have of not
choosing their career not using the life
partner not doing the things they have
to do I chose my life I chose my career
I do I travel to places where I want to
at the end of the day you should not be
full of regrets you should be content
many people ask me that you are a monk
so you have some secret mantra or what I
don’t have any secret mantra let me tell
you but this quotation does inspire me
never we are starting fear never
starting I hope it inspires YouTube
you
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