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Advertising film director Prahlad Kakkar is, by his own admission, an extremely irreverent, non-believing, and politically incorrect man who questions everything. Yet he says he was curious enough to accept a personal invitation by Sadhguru to do the Inner Engineering programme, though he didn’t even know the spiritual guru back then. "I could not see myself meditating for three days at a stretch. But I was keen to know more about this person and the process he was talking about. So, I did it since I was free that weekend.” 

Kakkar says the experience left an indelible impression on him--something