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Witness · Filmed Testimony · 2026

Arun Sharma trained here. Then he went on national television.

Winner of MTV Roadies Real Heroes. Actor in a Disney+ Hotstar web series. An independent musician who writes his own songs and performs across the country. Years before any of it, a boy from a small village in Jammu & Kashmir walked into a training room. This is his account of that room, in his own words, on camera — with a public record behind it that anyone can check.

Who is speaking: Arun Sharma

Winner · MTV Roadies Real Heroes · 2019

Actor · web series, Disney+ Hotstar (his account)

Independent musician · writes and releases his own songs

Trained · LEAP, the Life Transformation Programme · University of Life · with Dr. Maruti Sharma and Shilpa Gupta

Filmed testimony, 2026. Published in full and unedited on YouTube.

“He used to tell me — you have so much potential, you’re unlimited. And I never used to believe it. Like — I’m just a guy. Today, after all this, I think I understand those words now.”

What he says, word for word

The full transcript is published here so that nothing depends on our summary of it. Where a phrase was unclear on the recording, the nearest natural reading is used; the video above is the authority.

“Hey guys, my name is Arun. I’m from a small village in Jammu and Kashmir. About eleven years ago, my brother introduced me to University of Life and to Dr. Maruti. I joined a life transformation course there, and I worked on my language, my personality, and the tools I really needed to get the success that I have today.

Special thanks to Dr. Maruti and Shilpa ma’am, because they really helped me understand what I am passionate about, and helped me change my personality.

I did MTV Roadies after that. I won that season. It was super nice — super duper great. I’m an actor also — I worked in a web series for Disney+ Hotstar. I have released my own music. I write my own songs now, and I travel across the country doing my gigs, and I’m also building my own business.

During that training — I especially remember those days — we used to go for retreats, all these personal sessions, because such training was really, you know, unconventional, and radical. It used to make no sense at that time, but it was super fun. I have to be honest about that.

He used to tell me a lot of stuff like: you can do this, you can do that, you have so much potential, you’re unlimited — all those things. And I never used to believe it. Like — I’m just a guy. But today, after all this, all the success I’ve achieved, I think I understand those words now. I think he really helped me to achieve whatever I am today.”

Transcript of the filmed testimony above. His words throughout; nothing added, nothing removed.

Arun Sharma, winner of MTV Roadies Real Heroes 2019, seated on a leather sofa in sunglasses and a black shirt
Arun Sharma — Roadies winner, actor, musician. Photograph supplied by Arun.

The seven-year check

A testimonial recorded once can be a mood. A testimonial that holds its shape across seven years of a very public life is a record. Arun first spoke about this training on camera in 2019 — before the web series, before the music, in a video that has been publicly on YouTube ever since: watch the 2019 testimony. A village, a government school, a training room, a changed trajectory. Seven years later, with far more to lose and nothing to gain from saying it, he filmed the account above — same room, same names, same story, now with a national television title attached to his. Two filmed statements, years apart, that agree: that is the standard of evidence this site holds every claim to, including this one.

What this proves — and what it does not

Read carefully, because the discipline here is the point. Arun trained at University of Life — the training organisation Dr. Maruti Sharma founded in 2002 — in LEAP, the Life Transformation Programme, built on NLP™ (Neuro-Linguistic Programming™). He worked, in his words, on his language, his personality, and the tools underneath both. Then he auditioned. He stood on national television. He won, acted, wrote the songs, played the gigs, and is building the business. The training claims none of those outcomes, because a training that claims its students’ victories has misunderstood what training is. He trained here; everything he went on to do is his. What the record does establish is narrower and stronger: the room he credits, on camera, twice, seven years apart — is this one.

Two people are thanked by name in his testimony. Dr. Maruti Sharma, whose full documented record is on the credentials page and at marutisharma.com. And Shilpa Gupta — Founder and Managing Director of University of Life, a Certified Consulting Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, Dr. Sharma’s wife, and a practitioner he trained. That last fact is stated plainly because this site states everything plainly — and because it makes Arun’s testimony more interesting, not less: a student of the method, trained by its trainer, is independently credited by a third party with transforming his personality. The method reproduces. That is the deepest claim a training can make, and here it is made by someone else.

Dr. Maruti Sharma and Arun Sharma standing together at an evening event under prayer flags and festival lights
Dr. Maruti Sharma with Arun Sharma. Photograph unedited, as supplied.

Check it yourself

  • MTV Roadies Real Heroes (2019) and its winner are public record — a thirty-second search verifies the title.
  • The 2019 filmed testimony has been publicly on YouTube since before his television win.
  • The 2026 filmed testimony above is published unedited; the transcript on this page can be checked against it line by line.
  • University of Life (est. 2002)uolife.com. Dr. Maruti Sharma’s credentials, with seals, numbers and dates — the vault.

The room is still teaching

The patterns Arun worked with are taught today at NLP Academy India, in person, in small rooms, by the same trainer — now carrying licences signed by Dr. Richard Bandler, Kathleen S. La Valle and John J. La Valle of The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™.

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