Acharya Prashant (born 1978) is an Indian author and Advaita teacher. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, and an ex-IRPS officer, he is the founder of PrashantAdvait Foundation - a non-profit organization working towards reconnecting the world with Advaita Vedanta.
With around 10,000 discourses and over 40 books, he can be known most appropriately through his work. His work is founded on compassion and expresses itself as demolition. In classical sense, he is a most orthodox spiritual teacher, and in the contemporary sense, he is a veganism promoter, an environmental activist, a science activist, a campaigner against superstition, and a champion of essential human freedom.