What Then?

What Then? takes its title from the question 'Tatah kim?' asked centuries ago by Adi Shankara. What then? Is making money the point of life?

J.P. Vaswani argues that the answer will not be found in diary entries or appointment schedules, and that our activities do not reveal it either. The question forces a person to think about the ultimate goal they have set for themselves.

The book encourages readers to step back and take stock of their lives. Are we living only to die, or simply to exist, or to eat, drink and be merry because death may come soon? Even while chasing targets and goals, he says, we need to stop and ask where we are headed and where our hectic efforts are meant to take us. The book presents itself as a journey of self-discovery, and it ends by asking where one goes from here.