I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

In this remark, Chopra frames medicine not only as a technical vocation but as a doorway into metaphysical inquiry. By pairing medical training with questions about the soul, God, and the afterlife, he suggests that healing and human biology inevitably raise issues that exceed material explanation—questions of consciousness, meaning, and ultimate destiny. The quote also functions as a retrospective origin story for his later public identity: a physician who moved toward spirituality and mind–body themes. Its significance lies in how it recasts a conventional professional path as motivated by existential curiosity, implying that science and spirituality can be pursued as complementary ways of understanding life.