Like it is for many Sai youth, for Mrutyunjaya Dash too, it was a dream to become a student in Bhagawan's university. His penance and pining did finally bear fruit. But what that stay in the Sri Sathya Sai Hostel did to him was life-changing. The new vistas of life that opened up within him during those two years of being in Prasanthi Nilayam has defined everything he has done since then.