The Three Lives of Panditji (2012)

A moving first-person story of an extraordinary life of discovery. A farm kid from village India is sent off to an ashram at 11, becomes a Gold Medal Sanskrit master and then is plucked from his spiritual life to become a Hindu priest in snowy Alberta. He resists the 'material world', but soon realizes the money he makes could build the first school his old village has ever had. He tells his story, returns for the first time to his childhood ashram and inspires with his rare village school of 400 students. Throughout, we learn of the deep mysteries of the world's oldest religion and how one man holds tight to his goal of spiritual liberation living with his typical family in the Canadian suburbs.