"Embedded in efficiency is [the fact] that you know where you're going. But it's when you're wandering, is when you're learning. It's your time, and that's the time I want," said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in what turned out to be a riveting conversation in Mumbai, Thursday night — especially if you read between the lines, and took it as a session bordering on spirituality.

What with excellent life lessons such as the fact that "you must celebrate your choices, not your gifts," as anchor Mandira Bedi summed up her takeaway on stage, after the hour-long chat. For gift, whether it's beauty or intelligence, as Bezos put it, is something you're born with. What you make of it makes all the difference. No, Bezos didn't sound like the Sadhguru. He's had quite a lifetime to prove what he's saying.

And the talk was peppered with much banter, as you would expect for a session hosted by Shah Rukh Khan, arguably the wittiest Indian on screen, along with Zoya Akhtar, the whiz behind it. Strangely, they never spoke about money, sitting across the world's richest man. Which is only one way to describe the globe's biggest retailer.