Gauranga Das is a monk affiliated with ISCKON, and he is quite popular for his spiritual and philosophical videos on social media. However, before going towards the path of monkhood, he used to be an IITian. Google CEO, Sundar Pichai and Das were batchmates as well. Being from different branches, they never met while studying there. But the spiritual talker revealed that they had met once, many years later, after going down completely different journeys. When Sundar Pichai saw Gauranga Das he was surprised to see how the monk looked younger than him.
Gauranga Das revealed that Sundar Pichai was surprised to see him
While talking on the last day of the India Global Forum 2025 in London, Gauranga Das shared an interesting anecdote involving his IIT batchmate and now Google CEO, Sundar Pichai. The monk said that when they met after many years, Pichai was surprised to see him and quipped that the spiritual speaker looked younger than him. Das replied that the CEO deals with Google, which creates stress, while he deals with God, who relieves it. Talking in the forum, Gouranga Das said:
“I went to IIT in the same batch as Sundar Pichai. Years later, we met, and he said, ‘You look younger than me.’ I replied, ‘You deal with Google, which creates stress. I deal with God, who releases stress.”