Job Hopper Kiran Became Nishkalanka Kedi

 

Job Hopper Kiran Became Nishkalanka Kedi

Table of Contents

• Job Hopping to Learn Economics
• CRISIL Interview Disaster
• Onicra Mission Madness
• Highest Wage, Golden Cage
• Mother Teaching vs Monkey Theory
• Forgot Why I Stand Here
• Sage Karma, Job Hopping Dharma
• Spa Therapist, Sage Stainless
• Two Kinds of Nishkalanka
• Pure Fake vs Nishkalank Fact
• Be Nishkalanka, Not Naked!
• Nishkalanka is a Luxury — Only a Boss Can Afford It!
• Kiran Was The Blind Draft — Kedi Is The Messy Draft

Job Hopping to Learn Economics

I was job-hunting on Google in 2016. I didn’t know what kind of job I wanted, but I was dead sure of one thing: I never wanted to work again in any field I had already tried. By then, I had worked in factories, shops, malls, DSAs, call centres, events, spas and salons, banks, insurance, and finance—basically everything.

The real reason I kept switching companies was to study economics and philosophy in real life. Every new workplace changed my mindset and allowed me to test different philosophical ideas on the ground while discovering practical economics at the same time.

CRISIL Interview Disaster

Before 2015, I barely knew credit rating agencies existed and had zero interest in them. Then my cousin (my maternal aunt’s son) told me that CRISIL was hiring and that I should come for the interview. I didn’t even ask what the job was. I just went.

Two candidates had already finished when I arrived. One guy’s interview had lasted a full 20 minutes. Between 2007 and 2015, I had worked in more than 20+ companies, but no résumé on earth could carry that truth. So, I listed only four—Spanco Call Centre, Tata Telecom, SBI Bank, and Shriram Finance—and wherever I had stayed for 4–6 months, I wrote one full year. The dates were completely fake.

I’m forgetful by nature. It takes me hours to remember timelines properly. So, for those 20 minutes, I kept repeating one fake “last job leaving date” in my head so I wouldn’t slip during the interview. Finally, the interviewer called me in. I walked in silently chanting the fake date and fake reason for leaving.

He read my résumé carefully and then asked the first question.
Interviewer: “Since when have you been living in Mumbai?”
Kiran: “Since 2006, sir.”
Interviewer: “Tell me the names of all the railway stations from Mulund to CST.”

I named them correctly up to Dadar, then forgot a couple between Dadar and CST.
Interviewer: “Your interview is over. You can go.”
Kiran: “You’re not going to take my interview?”
Interviewer: “You already failed before it started. Our first condition is that the candidate must know every single Mumbai local railway station by heart.”

I didn’t get the job. I wasn’t just sad about losing the job; I was angry that I had wasted 20 minutes memorising a fake date. I called my cousin and told him everything. Only then did he explain that they were hiring a transport coordinator who had to arrange cabs and buses for employees. In their eyes, anyone doing that job had to know every station and its location.

Lesson I learned: at least ask what the damn job is before going.

Onicra Mission Madness

A few months later, in 2016, I saw that Onicra Credit Rating Agency had an opening for a Sales Executive. After the CRISIL disaster, I had studied what credit rating agencies actually do. I wanted to work in one to understand how they rate companies, what kinds of companies exist, and their inputs and outputs—everything.

This time, I prepared like a madman. I memorised every station on the Western, Central, and Harbour lines. I revised manufacturing, service industries, government bodies, accountancy, and finance, and dug out my old college textbooks. I studied so hard that I wasn’t sure whether I was preparing for a sales job or the IAS exam.

After one week of 24×7 study, I went for the interview.
Interviewer (Regional Head): “Have you ever done sales?”

My entire résumé screamed sales.
Kiran: “Sir, I have never done anything in life except sales—Tata Telecom products, bank products, vehicle loans…”

He saw my confidence, asked nothing else, selected me on the spot, and handed me the appointment letter the same day.

The job involved scraping MSME lists from B2B sites, cold-calling, fixing appointments, visiting factories, selling credit rating certificates, and helping clients get Udyog Aadhaar for government subsidies.

Highest Wage, Golden Cage

In three months, I got everything I wanted—deep, ground-level knowledge of Indian MSMEs. There was nothing new left to learn. Time to run again.

Onicra paid the highest salary I had ever earned. Mentally, I wanted to leave, but financially I didn’t have the guts—no one else would pay that much. Yet every three to four months, the “runaway” switch flipped.

Mother Teaching vs Monkey Theory

My mother kept repeating, “Changing jobs every 4–6 months and starting from zero will never let you grow. Stay in one company for 5–10 years, and then you’ll develop.”

My standard reply, almost weekly, was:
Kiran: “Mom, I’m that monkey who keeps jumping from tree to tree until he finds his real tree. The day I find it, I’ll build my home there forever. And if I don’t find it in the next 5–10 years, I’ll grow my own tree and live on it.”

Forgot Why I Stand Here

One day, the restlessness became unbearable. I couldn’t remember what I actually wanted to do with all the knowledge I was collecting—economics, philosophy, Kamasutra, theology—everything was mixing up. Because of my weak memory, I kept forgetting my own life purpose.

Whenever a question troubles me and I can’t find its answer, I talk to Ganesh—the second mind inside me. He is very wise and knows everything.

Kiran: “Why am I doing so many different kinds of jobs? What should I really do in life?”
Ganesh: “At the age of 12, you took a vow that when you grew up, you would become a sage and search for Dharma and God.”

Sage Karma, Job Hopping Dharma

Kiran: “Then why am I taking all these jobs to search for Dharma and God?”
Ganesh: “This is your prarabdha karma. Experiencing real human mindsets by working in different places is part of a sage’s sadhana. You could not escape these karmas. Anyone else might have stayed in one company even if it felt like a prison, but you kept jumping because sage karma was attached to you.”
Kiran: “So, lying to get jobs and lying to run away was also written in my fate?”
Ganesh: “You did nothing wrong. Wandering is written in some people’s fate. You never cheated anyone for money and never committed fraud.”

Spa Therapist, Sage Stainless

Kiran: “Working as a massage therapist in a spa just for experience—did that stain my life forever? Can I still become a sage?”
Ganesh: “You have to become nishkalank (stainless).”

Kiran: “There are false stains on my character—coward, runaway, and the work of a massage therapist. How can I become nishkalank?”

Ganesh explained that there are two kinds of nishkalank:

The inexperienced nishkalank—those who have never done anything wrong in life.

The experienced nishkalank—those who have done wrong things but never hide them and never pretend to be pure saints. Society cannot stain such a person because the stains are already openly revealed. Society cannot add anything more to them, so they are called nishkalank.

Two Kinds of Nishkalanka

Kiran: “If a person reveals his wrong deeds, do his sins get destroyed, and does he become nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “Becoming nishkalank does not destroy anyone’s sins. Every human being, knowingly or unknowingly, commits some sins in life.”
Kiran: “Then what is the benefit of becoming nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “Hiding one’s wrong deeds is a burden and a weakness. Often, to hide even a small wrong act, out of fear that someone might label them sinful, people lose mental peace and financial wealth. Freeing oneself from the burden and weakness of hiding sins, and showing one’s stains before someone else can point them out—this is what being nishkalank means.”
Kiran: “I don’t understand speeches. I didn’t understand anything.”
Ganesh: “Suppose eating vada pav is considered uncivilised. You are addicted to eating vada pav. So that no one in your society or company finds out, you go far away from society and the workplace to eat it. But there is always a fear in your mind that someone might see you eating vada pav. This causes mental unrest and financial loss. The day you yourself tell society and the company that you are addicted to vada pav, you won’t need to go far away to eat it. Your mind will not be restless. The state of your mind at that time will be the nishkalank state. Society and the company will not call you sinful just because you eat vada pav. Now do you understand?”
Kiran: “Just because I eat vada pav, will the company not fire me from the job? If I don’t even get a job because of being nishkalank, then what is the benefit of being nishkalank?”

Pure Fake vs Nishkalank Fact

Ganesh: “Nishkalank is not for gaining something but for becoming free from the desire to appear pure and to maintain a fake character.”
Kiran: “Aren’t being pure and being nishkalank the same thing?”
Ganesh: “Pure and nishkalank are the same. Pretending to be pure while not being pure is a stain, and appearing impure while being impure is nishkalank.”

Kiran: “How can an impure person be nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “The literal meaning of “pure” is something with no adulteration, and the literal meaning of “nishkalank” is being completely transparent—whatever good or bad one is.”
Kiran: “Meaning, if I hide nothing about my mistakes, weaknesses, strengths, flaws—anything—then I will become nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “Yes. Then you won’t have to carry the burden of proving yourself great and pure. If you have to adopt a fake character to get a job, then that job itself will become a stain in your life.”

Be Nishkalanka, Not Naked!

Kiran: “To become nishkalank, if I tell society that I lied to get a job, did lowly work, eat non-vegetarian food every day, made mistakes, and was entangled in immoral relationships in the past, then society will not accept me. I won’t get respect. Then what is the benefit of being nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “You will become free from mental slavery, unnecessary fear, and false respect. By becoming nishkalank, you will become transparent and true. You will live your real life. The day you do good work for society, society will forget your past mistakes, accept your present, and give you true respect.”
Kiran: “Can the entire society become nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “One in a million can become nishkalank. You have to make yourself nishkalank, not society.”
Kiran: “To become nishkalank, do I have to tell everyone the entire truth about everything?”
Ganesh: “You can be naked while bathing, but can you walk naked in the market in front of the public? No, right? In the same way, you don’t have to tell everyone the entire truth about everything. There is a limit to how much truth to reveal about oneself. You just shouldn’t behave falsely. You have to respect your priorities and privacy.”

Nishkalanka is a Luxury — Only a Boss Can Afford It!

Kiran: “When should one become Nishkalank?”

Ganesh: “You should become Nishkalank when you are your own boss. As long as you are an employee, you should not become Nishkalank.”
Kiran: “What is the connection between being a boss and being Nishkalank?”
Ganesh: “Everyone can give respect to a Nishkalank person, but no one will give them work; nobody hires a boss.”

Kiran: “Why won’t anyone give work to a Nishkalank person?”
Ganesh: “A lying employee can provide comfort and reassurance, but a truthful employee can cause a heart attack.”
Kiran: “Got it. What should be my priority now?”
Ganesh: “First, awaken devotion. You are still an atheist. Make a list of every human emotion and experience them yourself. Start with devotion.”

Kiran Was The Blind Draft — Kedi Is The Messy Draft

That day, I dropped the craving for social approval forever. I started studying emotional philosophy. I made a list of 42 emotions. To awaken devotion, I started visiting temples and observing devotees. After four months, one day, suddenly, devotion exploded inside me. Atheist Kiran died; a theist was born.

Everything changed. I became a religious person and a patriot. Rituals that once looked superstitious now looked scientific. I stopped needing praise. I saw my divine and demonic sides clearly and accepted both.

The old Kiran—lustful, atheist, approval-addicted, fearful—was gone.
I found my life purpose: to write books on Sanatan Dharma and propagate it across the world.

“Kiran” no longer described me. I have the nature and attributes of Kedi. I experienced some attributes and wish to experience the rest related to Kedi. I chose a new name that matched my real nature—Kedi.

The next day, I officially changed my name to Kedi on my PAN card, Aadhaar, passport, bank accounts—everywhere.

Definition of Kedi: The name Kedi means a man who is free from all shackles, bound by his own rules, a rebel patriot, a great donor, a naughty womaniser, a royal gentleman, a brutal executioner, a dark horse, a spy, a man with multiple personalities, and a total paradox.

Conclusion: That day, in excitement, I decided to become Nishkalank.
I no longer needed to lie to get jobs. I could state my life purpose openly. Whoever was meant to support that purpose would give me work for four to six months. Working for someone who didn’t care about my purpose was useless anyway.

Result of being Nishkalank:
Before (2007 to 2016): 20+ jobs
After (2016 to 2025): 0 jobs (1 job in 2019 at Taj Hotel because hide Nishkalank) 

I forgot that an employee cannot be Nishkalank. I failed all job interviews. I realized this when I started recalling old memories while writing "Kedi Purana" in 2025. 

As an employee, I cannot be Nishkalank. But once I become a boss, I will definitely work with 100% transparency and remain Nishkalank forever.

Note: This content represents the 21st chapter of Kedi Purana, a 64-chapter work authored by Kedi Ganapati.

Kedi Purana is a modern Purana of the present and final Kaliyuga of the current Kalpa.

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