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NARRATOR: I was consciousin my mother's womb.
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Feeling the movements
in her body.
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Aware of my own
helpless state.
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This body bundle
of bones is not I.
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Occasionally,
the darkness of the womb
would be dispelled
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and light would visit me.
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On one side I wanted
to express myself
as a human being,
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yet, on the other side,
I didn't.
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Because I felt I was spirit.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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I see behind the scenes.
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The visible man is a shadow.
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As soon as I change
my consciousness,
I see everything,
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just as if it were
a motion picture.
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RAVI SHANKAR:
I distinctly remember
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the excitement of meeting
Swami Yogananda.
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He was straight
from the heart.
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He looked strange,
like a woman with long hair.
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But I remember
his powerful eyes.
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He created such a stir.
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KRISHNA DAS: I rememberthe first time I heardYogananda's voice.
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I got a record,
I think, from SRF.
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And I put it on,
and I didn't
know what to expect.
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And then, this
booming, powerful
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"I, Paramahansa Yogananda,
am singing.
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"Sing with me."
I went... (GROANS)
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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I, Paramahansa Yogananda,
am praying.
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Pray with me.
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Bless me that
with the awakening dawn...
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I may awaken
all souls with my own...
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...and bring them to Thee.
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He wasn't trying
to sing prettily,
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wasn't trying to
entertain people.
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He was singing,
you know, to God.
It was so powerful.
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HARRISON:
While I was in India,I was with Ravi Shankar.
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He gave me
Autobiography of a Yogi.
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Just looked at the cover,
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and he just zapped
me with his eyes.
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I mean I can't imagine...
If I hadn't read that,
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I probably wouldn't
have a life. Really.
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Yeah, I probably would have
kicked the bucket.
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Or I'd just be, you know,
some horrible person
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with a pointless life.
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It just gave meaning to life.
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HITENDRA WADHWA:
Steve Jobs apparently hadonly one book on his iPad.
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Lo and behold,
that book turns out to be
the Autobiography of a Yogi.
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(FEMALE INSTRUCTOR
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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MAS VIDAL: Yoga, for many,has become somethingthat you do with your body.
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But the yogis
never taught that.
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The way that
Yogananda taught yoga,
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was use the body,
you have a body,
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but it's really
about the mind.
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Expanding your consciousness.
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Who am I? Who you are?
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Why we came to
this Earth as a human?
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LI MIAO TSENG: It's reallyvery easy to get lost
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in the complexity of life.
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FRANCIS CLOONEY: We'reconflicted beings as humans.
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One of the deepest
things about us
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is that our lives
don't make sense,
except in the mystery.
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Yogananda provided us
a vocabulary to talk
about the human spirit
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that got away from dogma,
and doctrine, and ritual.
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Whether it be a Hindu, Muslim,
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Christian, Jewish, whatever
tradition you're part of,
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Yogananda charted
a path inward
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that connected you
with your own divinity.
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NARRATOR: Buried duringthe Dark Ages...
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Kriya Yoga was
revived for modern man
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by the deathless
yogi Mahavatar Babaji.
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Babaji instructed
Lahiri Mahasaya
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to teach Kriya Yoga to others.
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The transmission of
the ancient science
from guru to disciple.
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Unknown to society in general,
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a great spiritual renaissance
started in a remote
corner of Banaras.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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(BELLS RINGING)
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(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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As the fragrance of flowers
cannot be suppressed,
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so devotees from
every part of India
began to seek
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the divine nectar
of this liberated master.
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Day after day,
the guru initiated
one or two devotees
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into Kriya Yoga,
the science of meditation.
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Early in their married life,
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my parents became disciples.
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Lahiri Mahasaya
predicted my birth,
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and that through this body
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many shall receive
the spiritual
enlightenment of India.
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"The message of yoga
will encircle the globe,"
he said.
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It will aid in establishing
the brotherhood of man.
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But when I heard
the word "guru,"
it frightened me.
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For I knew what that
responsibility meant.
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VIDAL: His great burdenis to be the representative
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of this 5,000-year-old
tradition.
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FELICIA TOMASKO:
This is a man withintuitive knowledge.
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Extraordinary yogic powers.
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And he could perceive events
that were decades
in front of him.
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But his teachings
caused controversy.
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SONI: He would becalled into question,
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and everything he worked for
would unravel.
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(INDISTINCT WHISPERINGS)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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BROTHER VISHWANANDA:
Every soul is on a journey.
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People are at different levels
in that journey.
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I think we all believe
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that there's more to life
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than what we experience
every day.
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DEEPAK CHOPRA: Yoganandahappens to be what I wouldcall a spiritual prodigy.
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A spiritual genius.
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Which means had
access to a domain
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of awareness that most people
don't have access to.
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Like mathematical geniuses,
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he explored
a much larger territory
in the spiritual domain.
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NARRATOR: Sometimes, I used tolapse into the consciousnessof my true spirit.
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Clear recollections came to me
of a distant life,
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in which I had been a yogi
amid the Himalayan snows.
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STEFANIE SYMAN: He also hadvisions of seeing his guru.
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VISHWANANDA: Throughoutthe ages, there have been
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mystics who come
with special knowledge
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that helps us understand
our place in the universe.
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Yogananda was born at the dawn
of the atomic age,
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when modern physics
would shatter
our most basic beliefs
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about the nature of reality
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and pave the way
for an ancient
and hidden teaching
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to be received by many.
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MAN: Yogananda hadbeen told since infancyby saints and seers,
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that he'd be taking
these teachings to the West.
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But he thought,
"How is this possible?"
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You know, it was absurd,
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because he barely
spoke any English.
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NARRATOR: One day, my mindwent away from Ranchi.
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I went to the storeroom
to meditate,
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and I fell into an ecstasy.
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America.
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Surely these people
are Americans.
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It's scary to the mind.
I think the first
thing was, "Oh, my God."
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VISHWANANDA: Imagine inyour own life, havinga message so strong
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that it totally changes
your life, in a moment.
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And at that time he'd been
here about three years.
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Probably thought
this was his life work.
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NARRATOR: I had foundeda school following
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the educational ideals
of the rishis
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whose forest ashrams had been
the ancient seat of learning.
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Overcoming restlessness
of the body and mind,
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my concentration techniques
achieved astonishing results.
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He established
a "How to Live" School,
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I wish we had
"How to Live" Schools.
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You have to learn
your grammar, you have
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to learn your math
and your science.
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But you also have
to learn how to live.
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FEMALE TEACHER:
One, two, three, four, five.
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One, two, three, four, five.
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(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
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Love conquers all.
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Love conquers all.
Very good.
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MEHROTRA: He's in lovewith his country.
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He is being respected
by his community,
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he is seeing his
vision manifest
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where children
are learning the art
and science of yoga.
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And then he's sitting there
and all of a sudden,
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he becomes aware
that he has to
leave all of it.
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YOGANANDA: God is taking meaway to America.
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SRI DAYA MATA:
He never wantedto come to America.
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That was not part
of his dream at all.
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"Let me just go
to the Himalayas
and just live in a cave there.
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"I can do good there.
I can pray for people."
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But his teacher said, "No.
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"You must go to the West.
Go to America."
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NARRATOR: Tears stood inmy eyes as I cast a last look
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at the little boys,
and the sunny acres of Ranchi.
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I knew, henceforth,
I would dwell in far lands.
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How alone I was here.
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Not a soul I knew.
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I had heard many stories
about the materialistic West,
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a land very different
from India.
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It was somewhat of
a daunting experience,
to go out on the streets.
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My strange dress prompted
boyish mockery and catcalls.
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BOY: What's that?
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VIDAL: There were kids thatwere throwing stones at him,
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calling him names.
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VISHWANANDA: I thinkhe was called a magicianat one point, a snake charmer.
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BROTHER CHIDANANDA: In 1920,many Americans were stillnot used to having Jews here.
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And now comes
a darker skinned swami
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in orange robes and a turban.
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NARRATOR: I noticedsome hot dog signs.
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In imagination I saw
all kinds of dogs
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going through
the meat chopper.
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And I thought, "My Lord.
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"Why did you bring me to the
land where people eat dogs?"
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BRAHMACHARI MARTIN:
When Yogananda cameto the United States,
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it was after World War I.
The world was
a very different place.
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It was a very powerful time.
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There was this upsurge
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of freedom.
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Freedom of sexuality,
freedom of expression.
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Boundaries of known reality
were being shattered
and penetrated.
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You had
the Einsteinian
revolution,
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sort of flowering
into quantum physics.
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And it became clear
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that the world was not
what it appeared to be.
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SONI: Western philosophersare talking aboutthe death of God.
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And Yogananda says,
it's not about
the death of God,
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it's about
the reconceptualization
of the divine.
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CHIDANANDA: It's significantthat Yogananda'sfirst lecture in America
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was called
"The Science of Religion."
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Not Hinduism, because using
religious terminology,
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in Western peoples' minds,
would place his offerings
in a box.
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But self-realization?
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Oh. Yoga?
Oh, those are universal.
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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Spine and the brain
are the altars of God.
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That's where the electricity
of God flows down
into the nervous system
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into the world.
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and the searchlights
of your senses
are turned outwards.
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But when you will
reverse the searchlights,
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through Kriya Yoga,
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and be concentrated
in the spine,
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you will behold the Maker.
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That's what
Self-Realization teaches.
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The technique of meditation,
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recharging the body battery
with cosmic energy.
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For it is not a creed
or dogma,
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but a science...
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...of the soul and spirit.
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How the soul descended from
the cosmic consciousness...
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into the earth and
the body and the senses...
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...is the purpose
of this work.
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VIDAL: Imagine hearing thatGod is in your spine.
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In 1920.
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It was radical.
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It was a bold explanation
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of where to go
to experience God.
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MAISHA MOSES: For me,
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God is still
a bit unfathomable.
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She's in everything.
She's in everyone.
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If you call Him energy,
that's fine.
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SONI: Yogananda thoughtof self-realizationas a science.
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He thought of Kriya
Yoga as a science.
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Religion has a lot of baggage,
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but a science
means that it's part
of a scientific process.
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It's empirical,
you can test certain things.
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And your own
spiritual practice
and self-realization
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is that scientific process.
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An individual is sort of
an organized packet
of consciousness
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that is part of a bigger ocean
of consciousness
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in that when
you are meditating
and going deep within,
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such as in yoga,
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your inner consciousness
is combining with
that higher consciousness.
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CHIDANANDA:
You couldn't havedescribed to a Westerner
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what Yogananda
was teaching prior
to the twentieth century.
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There simply wasn't
a vocabulary for it.
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The apparently solid body
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is made up of
these whirling atoms,
and protons, and electrons.
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And those are composed
of energy.
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The basic substance
of creation.
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NARRATOR: The bodyis potentially vastand omnipresent.
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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This earth is nothing
but movies to me.
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Just like the beam
of a motion picture.
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So is everything made
of shadows and light.
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That's what we are.
Light and shadows of the Lord.
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Nothing else than that.
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There's one purpose.
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To get to the beam.
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VIDAL: But the doorsof perception don't oftenopen with the intellect.
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Something very powerful
has to happen
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to shake us out of
our comfort zone.
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NARRATOR: It was inBareilly on a midnight...
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As I slept beside Father,
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I was awakened by
a peculiar flutter.
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CHIDANANDA: When he wasabout 11 years old,
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he and his father
were in northern India.
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The family was
temporarily separated,
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and his mother
had gone to Calcutta
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to prepare for the wedding
of the eldest brother.
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And unknown to them,
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she had contracted
Asiatic cholera.
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SYMAN: He had a dreamthat night, that his mothercame to him.
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NARRATOR: The flimsy curtainsparted and I saw the belovedform of my mother.
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"Rush to Calcutta,
if you would see me."
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The wraith-like
figure vanished.
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(NARRATOR GASPS)
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Mother is dying.
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I collapsed into
an almost lifeless state.
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CHIDANANDA:
A telegram arrived.
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She had died in
a matter of hours.
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NARRATOR: What wasthe purpose of this?
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Her solacing black eyes
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had been my refuge
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in the trifling tragedies
of childhood.
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WOMAN'S VOICE:
Farewell my child.
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The cosmic mother
will protect you.
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(ECHOING) It is I who havewatched over thee,
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life after life,
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in the tenderness
of many mothers.
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See in my gaze
the two black eyes.
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The lost,
beautiful eyes
thou seek'st.
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NARRATOR: I used to dreamin my childhood,
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a tiger used to break
my leg at night.
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(GROWLING)
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Mother used to come running
with a candle and say,
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"You are dreaming.
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"Where is it broken?"
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(CHUCKLES) And thenI used to laugh.
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From that time on,
I was watchful,
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even in dreams,
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to separate the unreal
from the real.
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VIDAL: Once he hadcracked open the door,
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his world would
never be the same.
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But it would take time,
and many tests,
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before he would fully awaken
into this new reality.
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NARRATOR: Mercifully motherof the universe,
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teach me thyself
through visions,
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or through a guru
sent by thee.
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I hoped to find them
in the Himalayan snows.
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The master whose face
often appeared to me
in visions.
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I gazed searchingly
about me, on any
excursion from home
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for the face
of my destined guru.
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One day, I wiped
my tear-swollen face,
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and set out for
a distant marketplace
in Banaras.
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(VENDORS SHOUTING)
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Something told me
to look behind.
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I had seen him in dreams.
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The face was
the one I had seen
in a thousand visions.
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Holding a promise
that I had not
fully understood.
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I came to know him long before
I met him in this life.
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It was him.
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It was my master.
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He said,
"I have been waiting."
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MEHROTRA: A true guruis there to lead youto yourself. Not to himself.
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To what we are
truly capable of,
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not just the limited
aspect of us.
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VIDAL: The spiritual pathis farthest from easy.
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It requires undoing
aspects of ourselves.
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NARRATOR: My guru could notbe bribed, even by love.
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The hard core of
egotism is difficult
to dislodge, except rudely.
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This flattening to
the ego treatment,
was hard to endure.
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I sometimes felt that,
metaphorically,
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he was discovering
and uprooting
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every diseased
tooth in my jaw.
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Many teachers will
tell you to believe,
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and then put out
your eyes of reason.
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My guru said,
"I want you to keep
your eyes of reason open."
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In addition,
I will open in you,
the eye of wisdom.
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Yoga for me is freedom.
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The state of
needing nothing is yoga.
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VISHWANANDA: We becomeone with peace,we become one with joy,
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we become one with love.
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We realize that that
is our true nature.
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NARRATOR: How tirelesslymy master labored
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that the boy Mukunda
be transformed into
the monk Yogananda.
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Three happy years
were spent in humble
circumstances in Boston.
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I gave public lectures,
taught classes,
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and addressed clubs,
colleges, churches
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and groups of
every denomination.
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CHIDANANDA: But it tookYogananda a few years
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to realize that he
wasn't in the right place
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for this message
to really take off.
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SONI: In 1925, Yoganandaarrives in Los Angeles,
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and on the first night,according to the LA Times,
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over 6,000 people
attend his talk.
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That's double the capacity
of the auditorium.
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Los Angeles is
this new frontier.
It's a place of possibility,
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of a new beginning.
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Ideas of Asian spirituality
have permeated the West Coast
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in a way that they haven't
on the East Coast.
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People come to Los
Angeles often looking
for something.
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So there's this
already mind of a seeker.
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SONI: Yogananda doesa seven-night speaker series
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at the LA
Philharmonic Auditorium.
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People go just
to see the show.
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And because he's exotic
and entertaining
and a great speaker.
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And then others
really stick around
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and end up finding that he has
really powerful teachings
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and he's a very good vehicle
for the message.
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He knew the power
of initiative.
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He didn't wait
for anybody to get
this wisdom out.
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He sent out lessons via mail.
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Mail order at the time
was completely brand new.
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It was like sending
out an e-blast today.
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What Yogananda did
that was profound
for Americans
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was talk about how
you can have a personal
relationship with the divine.
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MAN'S VOICE: I wasa totally frustrated man.
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I had thought money
could give me happiness.
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But nothing seemed
to satisfy me.
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I was skeptical,
like everyone was.
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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Sit straight,
shoulder blades together.
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Chin parallel to the ground.
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Concentrate on the point
between the eyebrows.
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The center of thought
and will...
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...and concentration.
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And again and again say,
"Reveal thyself"...
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...as joy and wisdom
and spiritual perception.
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Again and again say,
"Reveal Thyself".
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GOLDBERG: James Lynn wasa wealthy industrialist.
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And he went on to become
a very close devotee
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and an important benefactor
of Yogananda's work
around the country.
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CHIDANANDA: Many who joinedhis classes stepped forwardand wrote checks
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trying to keep
Yogananda in LA.
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And he saw such enthusiasm,
he thought this is the place
to establish a center.
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NARRATOR: When I sawthe large building onthe crest of Mount Washington,
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I recognized it at once.
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MATA: As he saw,this is the place.
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CHIDANANDA: This becamethe headquarters of his work.
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Yogananda called
it the spiritual
White House.
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And it was a place
where he gave classes,
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he even had rooms
available to rent,
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with the idea of starting
a spiritual community.
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And the first
event he held there,
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before the property
was even purchased
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was an Easter sunrise service.
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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True Christianity has been
lost and forgotten.
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And what the ancients
taught in India has been
lost and forgotten.
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Those ought to be revived as
one highway to the infinite.
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GOLDBERG: One of the keysto Yogananda's popularityin America.
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Was his love and
affection for Jesus.
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He placed Jesus on
the altar with his lineage.
And with Krishna.
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CLOONEY: He saidthat Jesus really wasrepresenting to us,
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"This is who you are
this is your ability
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"to open yourself
to the divine mystery in ways
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"that you never
thought were possible."
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GOLDBERG: Jesus isrevered in India,people don't realize that.
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But he is held to be either
an incarnation of God,
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or, at the very least,
a supreme yogi.
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CLOONEY: The value ofYogananda's teaching
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was that he picked up
on this angle
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that there is this
universal opportunity
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to understand who we are.
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What is true of Jesus is
also true of all of us.
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MARTIN: It's notabout religion at all,
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it's about what's
behind religion.
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Meditation. Meditate.
That's what he said.
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Meditation is the catchword.
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SONI: Yoga really isa philosophical system.
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A lot of people go
to yoga to look hot.
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It's not set up to
give you flat abs,
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even though that's
an nice byproduct.
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It's really set up
to understand God.
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NARRATOR: Kriya Yoga isthe science of God realizationthrough meditation.
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VIDAL: Yogananda didteach Hatha Yoga
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as one way to
prepare for meditation.
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CHIDANANDA: He alsodeveloped this systemof energization exercises.
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(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
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The tension exercises...
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...charge the body
with the life current
from the universe.
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Energy...
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distributed evenly
in the body...
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...is what keeps the diseases
from settling.
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00:33:10,846 --> 00:33:12,639
You don't have to be afraid
of germs.
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00:33:12,681 --> 00:33:14,058
If your body's electrified...
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...they'll be electrocuted.
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ANDREW NEWBERG:
Everything you doaffects your brain.
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By tensing the muscles,
you're activating
your frontal lobes.
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You lower the stress
hormones in the brain,
it lowers your blood pressure
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and your heart rate
and it gets your mind
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prepared for
doing whatever it is
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that you're about to do.
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CHIDANANDA: Kriya Yogateaches in the spine
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are these instruments
of higher perception
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that are normally
dormant in most people.
463
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Through withdrawing
that energy and directing it
by concentration
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into the spine and brain.
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Yogananda said
those instruments
of divine perceptions awaken.
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The physical world is not
the highest reality.
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NEWBERG: When we havea dream at night, it feels
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incredibly real while
we're in the dream.
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And then we wake up
and we look at
the reality we're now in
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and we say, "Oh, okay,
that was just a dream."
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Well, when people have
mystical experiences, they say
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"Well this is
the ultimate reality,
this feels more real."
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And all this other stuff,
that's not really
the real reality.
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NARRATOR: Feel the lifecurrents ascendingand descending in the spine.
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By mastery of
the intelligent life
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currents in
the central nervous system.
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The body and brain
can be purified.
478
00:35:07,257 --> 00:35:09,760
Go up and down the spine.
479
00:35:09,801 --> 00:35:15,682
Feeling the centers
and mentally chanting "om."
480
00:35:15,725 --> 00:35:19,645
WOMAN'S VOICE: Dear Guruji,I have absorbed so much.
481
00:35:19,687 --> 00:35:25,068
I will try to keep
it all within me,
and profit by it.
482
00:35:25,109 --> 00:35:27,904
Self-realization
has helped my career.
483
00:35:27,945 --> 00:35:30,490
It has helped me
to think very little of me,
484
00:35:30,531 --> 00:35:33,659
and let the great spirit
pass through me.
485
00:35:52,930 --> 00:35:54,014
NARRATOR:
Dear Swami Dhirananda...
486
00:35:54,473 --> 00:35:56,016
(READING)
487
00:36:01,980 --> 00:36:05,359
Mount Washington needed
someone to be at the helm.
488
00:36:05,401 --> 00:36:08,570
While Guruji traveled
throughout the United States,
489
00:36:08,612 --> 00:36:10,197
lecturing, giving classes.
490
00:36:15,286 --> 00:36:17,622
He brought one of his
most beloved friends.
491
00:36:17,664 --> 00:36:20,250
He was a very capable teacher.
492
00:36:20,291 --> 00:36:23,837
He was very well-liked.
493
00:36:23,878 --> 00:36:27,257
NARRATOR: I am powerlessto tell how greatlyhe has helped me
494
00:36:27,298 --> 00:36:30,301
in carrying on
my educational work
in India and Boston.
495
00:36:32,137 --> 00:36:34,264
He successfully
carried on the work
496
00:36:34,305 --> 00:36:38,727
at the Ranchi school
during my absence from India.
497
00:36:38,768 --> 00:36:41,396
CHIDANANDA: This washis childhood friendfrom Calcutta.
498
00:36:43,607 --> 00:36:47,278
I think as boys,
both of them felt that their
families didn't understand
499
00:36:47,319 --> 00:36:48,946
their spiritual longings.
500
00:36:48,988 --> 00:36:50,990
In fact, Dhirananda
said that it was
501
00:36:51,032 --> 00:36:52,950
impossible for him
to even meditate
502
00:36:52,992 --> 00:36:54,368
at his family home.
503
00:36:57,246 --> 00:37:01,542
So Yogananda allowed him
to hide out in his attic room
504
00:37:01,584 --> 00:37:04,754
and he would sneak food up
to him after the meals.
505
00:37:14,181 --> 00:37:18,852
CHIDANANDA: The 1920swas a period of almostceaseless travel for him.
506
00:37:18,894 --> 00:37:22,189
He was visiting all
of the largest cities
in the Unites States,
507
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:23,982
where people were
getting their first
508
00:37:24,024 --> 00:37:25,567
glimpse of this
yoga philosophy.
509
00:37:27,235 --> 00:37:29,571
There is no, um,
precursor for Yogananda.
510
00:37:29,613 --> 00:37:32,783
He has to do something
completely new that no one
has done before.
511
00:37:32,824 --> 00:37:35,327
There is no path.
512
00:37:35,369 --> 00:37:37,704
GOLDBERG: There wereother gurus who came.
513
00:37:37,746 --> 00:37:42,542
Swami Vivekananda,
whom Yogananda
respected greatly,
514
00:37:42,584 --> 00:37:46,213
had been here and started
the Vedanta Society
in the 1890s.
515
00:37:47,340 --> 00:37:50,134
But he only stayed
a few years.
516
00:37:50,176 --> 00:37:53,179
Yogananda was
the first major guru
517
00:37:53,221 --> 00:37:58,559
to have a nationwide impact
and really make
America his home.
518
00:37:59,727 --> 00:38:00,895
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
519
00:38:00,937 --> 00:38:03,398
In America, everybody is busy.
520
00:38:03,439 --> 00:38:05,525
If you keep on running after
too many hobbies,
521
00:38:05,566 --> 00:38:07,652
you won't have any time left
for bliss.
522
00:38:20,165 --> 00:38:22,084
VIDAL: Everything wascovered in the lessons,
523
00:38:22,126 --> 00:38:24,586
from how to achieve
success in our life.
524
00:38:24,628 --> 00:38:27,005
Magnetizing or
attracting your soul mate.
525
00:38:27,047 --> 00:38:30,801
Creating abundance,
how to create
harmony with others,
526
00:38:30,843 --> 00:38:32,845
how to find happiness.
527
00:38:34,430 --> 00:38:38,142
You people do not
sleep correctly.
528
00:38:38,183 --> 00:38:42,563
You subconsciously worry
about unpaid bills.
529
00:38:42,604 --> 00:38:46,191
And allow your
sleep to be disturbed
530
00:38:46,234 --> 00:38:48,987
by the mental
movies of dreams.
531
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,284
By closing the eyes,
and inner relaxation
532
00:38:54,325 --> 00:38:58,830
I can remain
asleep several nights.
533
00:38:58,872 --> 00:39:03,084
And by opening the eyes
and recharging the body,
534
00:39:03,126 --> 00:39:05,170
I can keep awake several days.
535
00:39:08,423 --> 00:39:11,718
CHIDANANDA: Willpower isreally one of theabsolute necessities
536
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,636
for spiritual progress.
537
00:39:13,678 --> 00:39:16,431
Yogananda defined
willpower this way,
he said,
538
00:39:16,474 --> 00:39:19,769
"Will is that
which changes thought
into energy."
539
00:39:25,399 --> 00:39:26,859
"He asks the six
men to line up
540
00:39:26,901 --> 00:39:28,694
"with their hand
on each other's back
541
00:39:28,736 --> 00:39:31,864
"making a line
across the platform.
542
00:39:31,906 --> 00:39:36,160
"Swamiji said, 'The first one,
put your hands on my stomach.'
543
00:39:36,202 --> 00:39:38,245
"With just a tiny
straightening of his body
544
00:39:38,287 --> 00:39:40,414
"and a quick
flick of his stomach,
545
00:39:40,456 --> 00:39:44,168
"Swamiji sent the six men
catapulting across the stage."
546
00:39:44,211 --> 00:39:45,962
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
547
00:39:46,004 --> 00:39:48,965
What's the key of success?
Concentration power.
548
00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:54,638
You meditate to achieve
the concentration powers.
549
00:39:57,057 --> 00:40:00,977
VIDAL: He would controlhis heart and stop the pulse.
550
00:40:01,019 --> 00:40:03,897
And the doctors would rush,
check his pulse,
551
00:40:03,939 --> 00:40:06,191
he's dying,
he doesn't have a pulse.
552
00:40:06,233 --> 00:40:09,194
And then he would
bring himself back to life.
553
00:40:11,446 --> 00:40:15,158
CHOUDHURY: Every human beingin the world hasa supernatural power.
554
00:40:15,201 --> 00:40:17,161
But having doesn't
mean anything
555
00:40:17,203 --> 00:40:19,997
if you don't
know how to use it.
556
00:40:20,039 --> 00:40:23,960
MALE ANNOUNCER: Yoga combinesthe physical, mentaland spiritual forces.
557
00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:26,379
Bikram must be in
complete control,
558
00:40:26,421 --> 00:40:28,256
or he's in danger
of being impaled.
559
00:40:28,297 --> 00:40:29,298
Here he goes.
560
00:40:33,469 --> 00:40:36,347
He did it!
And Yogi Bikram
is all right.
561
00:40:36,389 --> 00:40:39,225
CHOUDHURY:
But before you use it,you have to realize it.
562
00:40:39,267 --> 00:40:42,729
That's why Yogananda called
it self-realization.
563
00:40:42,770 --> 00:40:44,856
You have to
realize that power.
564
00:40:44,898 --> 00:40:47,735
Supernatural, cosmic,
physical, mental,
spiritual power.
565
00:40:50,195 --> 00:40:52,573
NARRATOR: Don't takemy word for anything.
566
00:40:52,614 --> 00:40:56,869
Apply these techniques,
and find out for yourselves.
567
00:40:56,910 --> 00:40:59,955
MARTIN: Here is a small,brown, mystic,
568
00:40:59,997 --> 00:41:02,082
from a nation that
very few Americans
569
00:41:02,124 --> 00:41:04,001
had ever been to,
much less read about.
570
00:41:04,043 --> 00:41:07,046
And he is here
delivering his message
with such force
571
00:41:07,087 --> 00:41:09,590
through personal transmission
to people who came to see him.
572
00:41:11,967 --> 00:41:16,722
NARRATOR: Most importantis to create a churchwithin yourself.
573
00:41:16,765 --> 00:41:20,226
Where you are the minister
in the temple
of your own soul.
574
00:41:21,561 --> 00:41:23,897
When somebody is in
a deep meditation,
575
00:41:23,938 --> 00:41:25,231
there are
changes in the brain.
576
00:41:25,273 --> 00:41:26,941
We've seen changes
in the brain scans
577
00:41:26,983 --> 00:41:28,068
of the different
parts of the brain
578
00:41:28,109 --> 00:41:29,152
that become more active.
579
00:41:30,612 --> 00:41:32,906
What you're seeing during
a meditation practice
580
00:41:32,947 --> 00:41:35,158
is a very substantial
decrease of activity
581
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,951
in the part of
the brain which normally
582
00:41:36,993 --> 00:41:38,870
helps us to create
a sense of ourself
583
00:41:38,912 --> 00:41:42,165
and a sense of our orientation
in space and time.
584
00:41:42,207 --> 00:41:46,503
As you progressively
block the activity
in that area,
585
00:41:46,545 --> 00:41:50,549
then you block your
ability to establish
your sense of self
586
00:41:50,591 --> 00:41:52,301
as distinguished
from the rest
of the world.
587
00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:55,179
And you begin to feel
that sense of deep
connectedness or oneness
588
00:41:55,221 --> 00:41:56,472
with everything in the world.
589
00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:00,518
GOEL: I'm a physicistand a physician.
590
00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:02,853
I spent years
between the Harvard
physics department
591
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:04,063
and Harvard Medical School.
592
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:05,856
Going back and forth
across the Charles River,
593
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:07,233
but they don't talk
to each other.
594
00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:14,281
As a child, having been
exposed to things
like Vedic philosophy
595
00:42:14,323 --> 00:42:16,409
growing up in
rural Mississippi,
596
00:42:16,451 --> 00:42:19,579
I became inspired
by this deep belief
597
00:42:19,621 --> 00:42:21,873
that there's
an underlying unity
in nature.
598
00:42:21,915 --> 00:42:24,459
By which these
different fields
could come together.
599
00:42:24,501 --> 00:42:27,212
So that led me
to want to combine
600
00:42:27,254 --> 00:42:28,797
these two worlds of
physics and biomedicine.
601
00:42:32,175 --> 00:42:35,262
Physics, our physics
of the last century
602
00:42:35,303 --> 00:42:36,805
has not come
to terms with life,
603
00:42:36,847 --> 00:42:40,600
living systems and things
like consciousness.
604
00:42:40,642 --> 00:42:46,606
The writings of Yogananda
are very appealing
to a scientific appetite.
605
00:42:46,649 --> 00:42:49,444
He was committed
to bringing together
606
00:42:50,570 --> 00:42:53,448
the technology and
the material efficiency
607
00:42:53,489 --> 00:42:55,533
and the scientific
understanding of the West
608
00:42:55,575 --> 00:42:58,953
with the ancient
spiritual wisdom
of the East.
609
00:42:58,995 --> 00:43:03,207
And creating
a unified framework
and an integrated approach
610
00:43:03,249 --> 00:43:07,003
to living life on this planet.
611
00:43:19,641 --> 00:43:21,602
ROBERT LOVE: In Washington,something remarkable happened.
612
00:43:23,854 --> 00:43:25,981
Yogananda drew
the largest audiences
613
00:43:26,023 --> 00:43:28,400
a public speaker
had drawn in the city.
614
00:43:28,442 --> 00:43:30,819
Congressmen, senators, judges,
615
00:43:30,861 --> 00:43:34,656
and he was even
invited to the White House
by President Coolidge.
616
00:43:34,698 --> 00:43:37,576
But Yogananda came in
for a rude awakening
when he was in Washington,
617
00:43:37,618 --> 00:43:40,287
which is really part of
the American South.
618
00:43:41,914 --> 00:43:43,916
NARRATOR: In the nationalcapital, I was told
619
00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:46,126
that white people only
would be permitted
620
00:43:46,169 --> 00:43:47,504
to attend the classes.
621
00:43:48,463 --> 00:43:50,256
This surprised me very much.
622
00:43:51,299 --> 00:43:53,259
I defied this.
623
00:43:53,301 --> 00:43:57,514
And founded
a Afro-American Yogoda center
to teach my negro brethren.
624
00:44:04,062 --> 00:44:08,316
Cosmic delusion is
always snaring us
through our ignorance.
625
00:44:12,445 --> 00:44:14,823
LOVE: The civil rightsmovement was stilldecades away,
626
00:44:14,864 --> 00:44:16,616
and it was inspired,
in fact, by
627
00:44:16,659 --> 00:44:19,036
a revolution that
was fomenting in India.
628
00:44:22,123 --> 00:44:24,875
CHIDANANDA: Many peopledon't realize thatGandhi was a yogi,
629
00:44:24,917 --> 00:44:28,129
and he was putting
yoga principles
such as non-violence
630
00:44:28,170 --> 00:44:31,590
into action on a mass scale.
631
00:44:31,632 --> 00:44:34,635
SYMAN: Yogananda himselfwas a very open andvocal supporter of Gandhi
632
00:44:34,677 --> 00:44:36,637
and lectured at Harvard
about him and his movement.
633
00:44:39,890 --> 00:44:42,309
LOVE: For this, he was put ona government watch list
634
00:44:42,351 --> 00:44:45,062
and kept under surveillance.
635
00:44:45,104 --> 00:44:48,023
SONI: Anyone affiliatedwith India, and someonespecifically affiliated
636
00:44:48,066 --> 00:44:50,777
with Mahatma Gandhi
would be a person of interest,
637
00:44:50,819 --> 00:44:52,863
for the American government.
638
00:44:52,904 --> 00:44:56,700
Why are these people drawn
to this heathen teacher?
639
00:44:56,742 --> 00:45:00,203
Oh, what is he doing
behind closed doors?
640
00:45:00,245 --> 00:45:03,582
Are they trying to overthrow
our government too?
641
00:45:05,542 --> 00:45:06,877
LOVE: There was literally
642
00:45:06,918 --> 00:45:09,588
a war against yoga
being waged in the media.
643
00:45:17,930 --> 00:45:20,725
GOLDBERG: A huge scandalerupted when
644
00:45:20,767 --> 00:45:25,146
Swami Dhirananda,
Yogananda's right-hand man,
645
00:45:25,188 --> 00:45:28,608
was discovered giving
private lessons
to a married woman.
646
00:45:30,068 --> 00:45:31,903
And her husband...
647
00:45:31,944 --> 00:45:36,616
...found out about it,
stormed Mount Washington,
and a brawl erupted.
648
00:45:39,452 --> 00:45:42,705
There were crazy
tracts being written,
649
00:45:42,747 --> 00:45:46,209
rumors,
all kinds of allegations,
650
00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:47,794
not just about Yogananda,
651
00:45:47,836 --> 00:45:50,798
but some of the other swamis
and yoga teachers
652
00:45:50,839 --> 00:45:55,928
that this was a love cult
and they were corrupting
the women of America.
653
00:45:57,805 --> 00:45:59,973
SONI:
Yogananda, as a yogi,would often talk
654
00:46:00,015 --> 00:46:02,142
about mastery
over one's sexuality,
655
00:46:02,184 --> 00:46:05,187
over one's urges.
Self-discipline.
656
00:46:05,229 --> 00:46:08,649
But oftentimes that
was misinterpreted
to mean something scandalous.
657
00:46:11,777 --> 00:46:14,697
LOVE: You had a kind ofparanoia on the part of
658
00:46:14,738 --> 00:46:17,157
the husbands and
law enforcement officials,
659
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:19,243
that, you know,
we couldn't trust our women
660
00:46:19,285 --> 00:46:22,414
with these
dark-skinned
foreigners.
661
00:46:22,455 --> 00:46:25,250
SYMAN: You can readbetween the lines herewhat the problem really is.
662
00:46:25,291 --> 00:46:28,128
I mean this was a period where
miscegenation laws, you know,
663
00:46:28,169 --> 00:46:30,672
you were forbidden in America,
if you were white,
664
00:46:30,714 --> 00:46:34,134
to marry
a brown-skinned man or woman.
665
00:46:34,175 --> 00:46:36,636
So, I mean, it was
illegal to mix
the races at that point.
666
00:46:37,595 --> 00:46:39,055
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
667
00:46:39,097 --> 00:46:40,765
This marriage is symbolical...
668
00:46:40,807 --> 00:46:42,976
of breaking down
the barriers...
669
00:46:43,017 --> 00:46:46,187
of the brown Caucasian
of India...
670
00:46:46,229 --> 00:46:48,940
...and the white Caucasian
of America.
671
00:46:49,525 --> 00:46:50,526
Om.
672
00:46:51,235 --> 00:46:52,278
Amen
673
00:46:53,195 --> 00:46:54,196
Om.
674
00:46:58,242 --> 00:47:00,619
SYMAN: On the one hand,open-minded Americans
675
00:47:00,661 --> 00:47:02,997
revered him,
but his unorthodox views
676
00:47:03,039 --> 00:47:06,000
really raised the ire of more
conservative Americans.
677
00:47:07,585 --> 00:47:10,087
By the time he went
into the Deep South,
678
00:47:10,129 --> 00:47:11,714
it really reached
a fever pitch.
679
00:47:16,552 --> 00:47:19,638
LOVE: "Swami wasordered to leave Miamifor his own safety.
680
00:47:19,681 --> 00:47:21,725
"The husbands of
more than 200 Miami women
681
00:47:21,767 --> 00:47:24,144
"were preparing to,
'get the Hindu.'"
682
00:47:25,812 --> 00:47:27,814
SYMAN: His supportersswarmed City Hall,
683
00:47:27,856 --> 00:47:30,317
and during the hearing,
Police Chief Quigg
684
00:47:30,358 --> 00:47:32,486
claims that Yogananda
tried to hypnotize him.
685
00:47:42,913 --> 00:47:45,332
SONI: Yogananda's nolonger being invited
686
00:47:45,374 --> 00:47:47,167
to receive the keys
to different cities.
687
00:47:48,336 --> 00:47:50,380
He's no longer being
invited to speak
688
00:47:50,421 --> 00:47:51,964
to different
religious congregations.
689
00:47:54,050 --> 00:47:56,844
NARRATOR: I am going throughthe severest trial of my life.
690
00:47:59,472 --> 00:48:02,767
Judge for yourself
the lying capacity
of the newspapers.
691
00:48:07,814 --> 00:48:11,692
CHIDANANDA: Back in LosAngeles, the district attorneyeventually cleared Yogananda,
692
00:48:11,734 --> 00:48:14,320
and Mount Washington
of all wrong-doing.
693
00:48:14,362 --> 00:48:15,780
But the damage had
already been done.
694
00:48:21,954 --> 00:48:26,375
NARRATOR: The fruitsof a lifetime of serviceto mankind
695
00:48:26,417 --> 00:48:31,505
reduced to ashes
by the soulless efforts
of yellow journalism.
696
00:48:37,469 --> 00:48:40,389
CLOONEY: All these incidentsculminated in a falling out
697
00:48:40,431 --> 00:48:42,349
between Yogananda
and Dhirananda.
698
00:48:45,310 --> 00:48:46,979
Dhirananda left,
699
00:48:47,020 --> 00:48:50,733
and started
another organization not far
from Mount Washington.
700
00:48:55,363 --> 00:48:57,490
LOVE: Many of the studentswent with Dhirananda
701
00:48:57,532 --> 00:48:59,200
because Yogananda
had been busy
702
00:48:59,242 --> 00:49:00,827
touring the country
for the last year.
703
00:49:16,426 --> 00:49:19,137
CHIDANANDA: The finalheartbreak camea couple of years later,
704
00:49:19,180 --> 00:49:22,391
when Dhirananda left
the Swami Order altogether.
705
00:49:22,433 --> 00:49:24,685
And married one of his
Los Angeles students.
706
00:49:26,562 --> 00:49:28,564
Then he sued Yogananda
707
00:49:28,606 --> 00:49:30,649
for his share of the work
they had done together.
708
00:49:42,370 --> 00:49:44,955
NARRATOR: With a heavy heart,I'm starting for Mexico.
709
00:49:46,540 --> 00:49:48,334
Cutting loose from everything,
710
00:49:48,376 --> 00:49:51,879
that I may consecrate myself
to God entirely.
711
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,105
Divine Mother,
712
00:50:08,146 --> 00:50:13,693
free me,
let me go back to India,
to serve you there, not here.
713
00:50:13,735 --> 00:50:18,198
There, there is bitterness
and heartache and frustration.
714
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:20,325
And no one to listen
to your message.
715
00:50:32,380 --> 00:50:36,175
VISHWANANDA: In Yogananda'sdarkest hours, there's onlyone place that he went.
716
00:50:38,594 --> 00:50:39,721
He always went within.
717
00:50:47,019 --> 00:50:49,439
We call it God,
place of stillness.
718
00:51:26,144 --> 00:51:28,063
NARRATOR: Many timesI have tried to walk away
719
00:51:28,104 --> 00:51:29,981
from these organizational
responsibilities.
720
00:51:31,816 --> 00:51:35,862
Every time, Divine Mother
comes and takes me by the ear
721
00:51:35,904 --> 00:51:37,739
and says, "Come back."
722
00:51:41,159 --> 00:51:43,578
He said, "When I received
that answer, I wept.
723
00:51:45,789 --> 00:51:47,082
"And I knew I had to go back.
724
00:51:48,541 --> 00:51:50,627
"I knew this is what
God wanted from me."
725
00:51:55,424 --> 00:51:57,843
NARRATOR: Walking away underthe guise of renunciation,
726
00:51:57,885 --> 00:52:00,221
all non-attachment
is the easy part.
727
00:52:03,307 --> 00:52:05,893
It shows more
spiritual fiber to live
728
00:52:05,935 --> 00:52:08,562
a godly life
in the jungle
of civilization.
729
00:52:11,482 --> 00:52:12,525
I love all.
730
00:52:14,235 --> 00:52:17,238
Even those who avow
themselves my enemies.
731
00:52:18,823 --> 00:52:22,034
For I see thee in every being.
732
00:52:30,377 --> 00:52:34,339
I will rebuild this
organization from scratch.
733
00:52:34,381 --> 00:52:38,385
Just as I did when
I arrived from India in 1920.
734
00:52:41,138 --> 00:52:43,432
MATA: With that renewed faith,
735
00:52:43,473 --> 00:52:44,766
and the determination
736
00:52:44,808 --> 00:52:46,017
that he would not give up
737
00:52:47,144 --> 00:52:48,770
even though he was sorely
738
00:52:48,812 --> 00:52:50,814
tried and wanted to leave,
739
00:52:50,857 --> 00:52:53,484
he began to draw disciples.
740
00:52:54,777 --> 00:52:56,487
One of them was me.
741
00:52:59,282 --> 00:53:03,870
I came in 1931.
Many other young
people came.
742
00:53:03,911 --> 00:53:05,204
There were older people here,
743
00:53:05,246 --> 00:53:06,956
there was
all ages living here.
744
00:53:08,708 --> 00:53:11,461
LOVE: Yoganandahad consistentlydrawn his devotees
745
00:53:11,502 --> 00:53:13,254
from all walks of life.
746
00:53:13,296 --> 00:53:18,092
Prominent businessmen,
judges, lawyers,
even hardened journalists.
747
00:53:18,134 --> 00:53:21,095
But by the early 1930s,
something very different
was beginning.
748
00:53:22,473 --> 00:53:24,850
A small, core group
of devotees
749
00:53:24,892 --> 00:53:27,061
came to Yogananda
and asked to be accepted into
750
00:53:27,102 --> 00:53:30,814
this monastic path
of complete renunciation.
751
00:53:30,856 --> 00:53:34,193
To completely
devote their whole lives
to following his teachings,
752
00:53:34,234 --> 00:53:37,905
and seeking God
through this path
of Kriya Yoga meditation.
753
00:53:41,533 --> 00:53:45,079
James Lynn,
the wealthy businessman,
was one of them.
754
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,831
And he'd go on to become
a highly advanced yogi,
755
00:53:47,873 --> 00:53:50,125
and take monastic vows
like the others.
756
00:53:54,047 --> 00:53:56,049
And so through Yogananda,
757
00:53:56,091 --> 00:53:58,218
this ancient
monastic swami order
758
00:53:58,259 --> 00:54:00,011
from India
took root
in America.
759
00:54:02,097 --> 00:54:05,141
MATA: Now began the training.
760
00:54:05,183 --> 00:54:09,062
I knew nothing
about renunciation.
761
00:54:09,104 --> 00:54:13,483
CHIDANANDA: The new monasticstook strict vows,like Yogananda himself,
762
00:54:13,525 --> 00:54:17,904
of simplicity, celibacy,
obedience, and loyalty.
763
00:54:20,407 --> 00:54:24,953
Yogananda's lay students
faced other challenges.
764
00:54:24,995 --> 00:54:28,416
HERB JEFFRIES: I'd been thereabout six or seven weeks,and I said
765
00:54:28,457 --> 00:54:32,044
"Guruji, all my life,
I heard thou canst not,
766
00:54:32,086 --> 00:54:35,005
"thou shalt not,
thou must not.
767
00:54:35,047 --> 00:54:37,883
"These are
the rules of the religious
teachings that I've heard
768
00:54:37,925 --> 00:54:38,968
"around my relatives."
769
00:54:41,512 --> 00:54:44,807
"What I want to know from you
is, what canst thou?"
770
00:54:45,933 --> 00:54:48,352
He said "Well, do you smoke?"
771
00:54:48,394 --> 00:54:50,730
And I said, "Yes."
He said, "You may continue."
772
00:54:50,771 --> 00:54:52,815
"Do you drink?"
773
00:54:52,858 --> 00:54:55,736
"Alcohol?" I said, "Yes."
He said, "You may continue."
774
00:54:57,237 --> 00:54:58,822
"Do you
775
00:54:58,864 --> 00:55:02,325
"enjoy the opposite
sex promiscuously?"
776
00:55:03,994 --> 00:55:06,121
"Yes."
"Well, you may continue."
777
00:55:06,872 --> 00:55:08,081
I said, "Wait a minute.
778
00:55:08,123 --> 00:55:09,332
"You mean that I can
779
00:55:09,374 --> 00:55:11,668
"come up on this hill here,
780
00:55:11,710 --> 00:55:13,170
"in this good place
with all of these
781
00:55:13,211 --> 00:55:14,921
"wonderful people,
your disciples
782
00:55:14,963 --> 00:55:16,965
"and the devotees,
and the brothers up here,
783
00:55:17,007 --> 00:55:19,176
"and study these teachings,
784
00:55:19,217 --> 00:55:20,886
"and I can go back down there
785
00:55:20,927 --> 00:55:22,679
"and do all these things?"
786
00:55:22,722 --> 00:55:24,348
"Absolutely."
787
00:55:24,390 --> 00:55:26,601
"But I will
not promise you that as you
788
00:55:26,642 --> 00:55:29,270
"continue to study
these teachings,
789
00:55:29,312 --> 00:55:31,230
"that the desire
to do these things
790
00:55:31,272 --> 00:55:32,231
"will not fall away from you."
791
00:55:35,526 --> 00:55:39,864
NARRATOR: Repeatedperformance of inactioncreates a mental blueprint.
792
00:55:39,906 --> 00:55:41,783
Causing the formation
of subtle,
793
00:55:41,824 --> 00:55:43,910
electrical pathways
in the brain.
794
00:55:43,951 --> 00:55:46,287
Somewhat like the grooves
in a phonograph record.
795
00:55:47,455 --> 00:55:50,083
Your life follows
the grooves
796
00:55:50,124 --> 00:55:52,251
that you yourself
have created in the brain.
797
00:55:55,172 --> 00:55:59,218
NEWBERG: It appearsthat Yogananda was talkingabout neuroplasticity
798
00:55:59,301 --> 00:56:03,222
almost 50 years
before Western doctors
took an interest in it.
799
00:56:03,263 --> 00:56:05,724
He said that
regular Kriya practice
800
00:56:05,766 --> 00:56:10,646
could rewire your brain
and help eliminate
unwanted habits.
801
00:56:10,687 --> 00:56:13,357
HARRISON: The Autobiography
of a Yogi is the book
802
00:56:13,399 --> 00:56:16,610
that I keep stacks
of around the house.
803
00:56:16,652 --> 00:56:21,115
And I give it out
constantly, you know,
to people.
804
00:56:21,156 --> 00:56:23,283
You know, like when people
need regrooving.
805
00:56:24,911 --> 00:56:25,912
Read this.
806
00:56:28,581 --> 00:56:30,166
BROTHER ANANDAMOY: We are nottalking about suppression,
807
00:56:30,208 --> 00:56:31,418
we are talking
about transmutation.
808
00:56:32,836 --> 00:56:35,213
Rechanneling,
that's the whole
science of yoga,
809
00:56:35,255 --> 00:56:37,841
rechanneling your energy.
810
00:56:37,882 --> 00:56:40,009
Creating new patterns
of thinking,
811
00:56:40,051 --> 00:56:41,970
new patterns of
the emotional life.
812
00:56:45,140 --> 00:56:48,685
SISTER PARVATI: When helooked at you penetratingly,he was changing you.
813
00:56:48,727 --> 00:56:50,228
He said,
when he looked at you
814
00:56:50,270 --> 00:56:52,689
he was changing
your brain cells.
815
00:56:53,482 --> 00:56:55,109
And he did.
816
00:56:58,112 --> 00:57:01,240
LEO COCKS: He startedgoing into my innerthoughts and feelings,
817
00:57:01,282 --> 00:57:03,576
maybe things where
you've slipped a little.
818
00:57:03,617 --> 00:57:05,870
He dissected me on
the deepest level
I've ever been.
819
00:57:06,996 --> 00:57:08,789
I felt like I was
being carved down
820
00:57:08,831 --> 00:57:12,209
into a little tiny person,
down to almost like an ant.
821
00:57:14,795 --> 00:57:17,339
And I remember
I just literally
couldn't take anymore.
822
00:57:18,758 --> 00:57:20,634
Humanly, emotionally
823
00:57:20,676 --> 00:57:23,721
couldn't take it.
You know, I was hurting.
I was crying.
824
00:57:26,099 --> 00:57:29,019
He reached over
and he gave me a big hug.
825
00:57:31,438 --> 00:57:33,482
"I've given you
my unconditional love,"
he says.
826
00:57:33,523 --> 00:57:35,192
"Do not fail to take
advantage of it."
827
00:57:38,528 --> 00:57:41,698
It's a friendship
and a love that...
828
00:57:41,740 --> 00:57:45,368
He took you as you were
and he gave it all to you
as much as you could take.
829
00:57:54,837 --> 00:57:56,631
NARRATOR: There is justa thin screen
830
00:57:56,672 --> 00:57:59,842
of ether between
the world and my guru.
831
00:58:02,261 --> 00:58:04,430
He's haunting me
day and night.
832
00:58:06,349 --> 00:58:08,518
"Return to India.
833
00:58:08,559 --> 00:58:11,521
"You must come.
Make the supreme effort."
834
00:58:15,983 --> 00:58:20,154
Traversing ten thousand miles
in the twinkling of an eye.
835
00:58:20,196 --> 00:58:23,866
His message
penetrated my being
like a flash of lightning.
836
00:58:26,286 --> 00:58:29,915
I have spent 15 years
in spreading my guru's
teachings in America.
837
00:58:30,624 --> 00:58:32,418
Now he recalls me.
838
00:58:45,180 --> 00:58:48,976
Our arrival found
such an immense crowd
assembled to greet us.
839
00:58:49,017 --> 00:58:52,730
I was unprepared
for the magnitude
of our welcome.
840
00:58:58,862 --> 00:59:01,239
We broke our journey
halfway across
the continent,
841
00:59:01,281 --> 00:59:02,490
to see Mahatma Gandhi.
842
00:59:07,412 --> 00:59:09,706
After great discussions
he took lessons,
843
00:59:09,748 --> 00:59:12,959
Kriya,
and recharging exercises.
844
00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:17,088
I was touched
by his spirit of inquiry.
845
00:59:17,130 --> 00:59:21,551
When we prayed together,
the whole place
seemed filled with God.
846
00:59:27,141 --> 00:59:31,103
WRIGHT: Master couldhardly wait until hegot to meet his master.
847
00:59:50,790 --> 00:59:51,582
It was indescribable, the...
848
00:59:52,917 --> 00:59:55,419
...meeting between the two.
849
00:59:58,632 --> 01:00:03,804
Master dropped to
his knees, touched his feet,
of Sri Yukteswar Giri
850
01:00:03,845 --> 01:00:07,057
Yukteswar Giri
was welcoming back
his triumphant son.
851
01:00:11,019 --> 01:00:14,898
NARRATOR: A healing calmdescended at the mere sightof my guru.
852
01:00:17,192 --> 01:00:19,277
Quietly sitting beside him,
853
01:00:19,319 --> 01:00:23,949
I would feel his bounty
pouring peacefully
over my being.
854
01:00:30,623 --> 01:00:33,459
Such spiritual atmosphere
I so long missed.
855
01:00:35,336 --> 01:00:39,757
Day and night
passes with God-mad,
God-hungry crowds.
856
01:00:47,432 --> 01:00:49,642
It's wonderful to work
amidst people
857
01:00:49,684 --> 01:00:52,145
who don't need coaxing
to be spiritual.
858
01:01:02,448 --> 01:01:05,367
The Himalayan caves
are calling me.
859
01:01:05,409 --> 01:01:08,662
And the people's heart-caves
are welcoming me.
860
01:01:16,628 --> 01:01:20,758
But for a few
beloved disciples
at Mount Washington,
861
01:01:20,799 --> 01:01:22,760
I have no attraction
to go back to America.
862
01:01:25,472 --> 01:01:29,893
I would roam by
the Jumna where Krishna
played his flute of eternity
863
01:01:29,934 --> 01:01:32,145
and never visit the shores
of material life.
864
01:02:03,219 --> 01:02:05,888
The lion of Bengal is gone.
865
01:02:24,198 --> 01:02:29,412
The body which had reflected
omnipresent wisdom lay
lifeless, before me, mocking.
866
01:03:09,078 --> 01:03:09,871
Master mine,
867
01:03:12,373 --> 01:03:13,541
why did you leave me?
868
01:03:52,998 --> 01:03:57,211
The Lord is showing me,
wherever I am,
869
01:03:57,253 --> 01:03:58,296
that's my home.
870
01:04:01,007 --> 01:04:02,425
My home is on the train.
871
01:04:03,927 --> 01:04:05,678
Then it shall be in the hotel.
872
01:04:06,429 --> 01:04:07,680
And then on the ship.
873
01:04:09,432 --> 01:04:10,683
How can I leave my home?
874
01:04:11,601 --> 01:04:12,977
It's everywhere.
875
01:04:22,237 --> 01:04:26,783
CHIDANANDA: When Sri Yukteswarfirst sent Yoganandaon his mission to America,
876
01:04:26,825 --> 01:04:28,660
it was right
after World War I,
877
01:04:28,702 --> 01:04:31,789
which was supposed to be
the war to end all wars.
878
01:04:35,167 --> 01:04:39,380
Now, tensions were heating up
in Europe and Asia,
879
01:04:39,422 --> 01:04:41,924
and Yogananda saw
that we could be
880
01:04:41,966 --> 01:04:44,468
entering a period of
even greater horror.
881
01:04:49,348 --> 01:04:51,976
CHIDANANDA: The needfor the teachings wasmore urgent than ever.
882
01:05:11,371 --> 01:05:14,833
After his guru died,
something shifted in him.
883
01:05:20,839 --> 01:05:26,470
GOLDBERG: He was justexperiencing these profoundstates of consciousness.
884
01:05:26,511 --> 01:05:28,472
His eyes just turned glassy.
He just... (WHOOSHES)
Withdrew.
885
01:05:29,432 --> 01:05:30,725
And he was gone, you know.
886
01:05:35,354 --> 01:05:39,942
MATA: And ofttimes it gaveconcern to us younger ones.
887
01:05:39,984 --> 01:05:41,694
His heart seemed
to cease beating.
888
01:05:46,449 --> 01:05:51,079
He had instructed us
that whenever he
went into Samadhi,
889
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:52,663
that we could
bring him out of it
890
01:05:52,705 --> 01:05:55,500
by chanting "om"
in his right ear.
891
01:05:56,918 --> 01:05:58,753
And I thought "Wow.
This is something different."
892
01:05:58,796 --> 01:06:00,714
This was a little scary.
893
01:06:00,756 --> 01:06:02,257
(GASPS)
894
01:06:02,299 --> 01:06:05,886
Is my guru,
always now going to be
895
01:06:05,928 --> 01:06:07,012
in this state?
896
01:06:08,597 --> 01:06:12,476
I would be in awe to ever
897
01:06:12,518 --> 01:06:14,228
approach him in the same way.
898
01:06:23,112 --> 01:06:24,363
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
899
01:06:24,405 --> 01:06:26,824
My body became
just like stone...
900
01:06:26,865 --> 01:06:29,451
and still I was
fully conscious,
901
01:06:29,494 --> 01:06:30,703
...and everything was Light.
902
01:06:35,500 --> 01:06:37,877
CHIDANANDA: And it was outof that consciousness,
903
01:06:37,919 --> 01:06:40,797
that he was pulling
these writings,
904
01:06:40,839 --> 01:06:43,925
these profound truths
and experiences.
905
01:06:48,138 --> 01:06:51,099
MATA: He constantlystressed to me,
906
01:06:51,141 --> 01:06:53,727
get my thoughts,
907
01:06:53,768 --> 01:06:57,272
understand what I mean.
908
01:06:57,313 --> 01:07:00,650
I can do much
more now to reach.
909
01:07:00,693 --> 01:07:02,278
To reach others with my pen.
910
01:07:04,196 --> 01:07:07,783
CHIDANANDA: The Autobiography
of a Yogi was the first memoir
911
01:07:07,825 --> 01:07:11,495
of a genuine
Indian holy man.
912
01:07:11,537 --> 01:07:15,958
SHANKAR: It was hispersonal feeling abouthis devotion to his gurus
913
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,795
and what he really
received from them.
914
01:07:19,837 --> 01:07:22,715
But it's not all
that Yogananda wrote.
915
01:07:22,757 --> 01:07:27,553
Yogananda produced an
incredible literary corpus.
916
01:07:27,595 --> 01:07:31,724
MATA: Every morning,he would have us bringa typewriter and a table,
917
01:07:31,767 --> 01:07:34,227
and bring it into his study.
918
01:07:34,269 --> 01:07:37,439
GOLDBERG: He'd stillbe up at 1:00 or 2:00in the morning, writing.
919
01:07:37,481 --> 01:07:40,025
DAYA MATA: Night and day,he wrote or he dictated.
920
01:07:40,067 --> 01:07:42,861
And we would type
all day long.
921
01:07:42,903 --> 01:07:46,239
MRINALINI MATA: And he wouldbe totally, totally absorbed.
922
01:07:46,281 --> 01:07:48,075
Hours would go by.
923
01:07:48,116 --> 01:07:54,539
His whole consciousness
became absorbed
in finishing his writings.
924
01:07:54,581 --> 01:07:57,918
And it was that
sense of urgency,
925
01:07:57,959 --> 01:08:00,212
it was like an acceleration,
926
01:08:00,254 --> 01:08:05,510
an acceleration of our
discipline, of our training.
927
01:08:05,551 --> 01:08:08,763
CHIDANANDA: And not onlywas he writing,he was building temples,
928
01:08:08,805 --> 01:08:10,890
founding Brotherhood Colonies,
929
01:08:10,932 --> 01:08:13,893
and encouraging people
to live together
in spiritual communities.
930
01:08:26,531 --> 01:08:30,910
GOLDBERG: And thenin 1945, while he waswriting the autobiography,
931
01:08:30,953 --> 01:08:32,871
we set off
the first atomic bomb.
932
01:09:03,820 --> 01:09:04,779
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER:
Few people cried.
933
01:09:05,905 --> 01:09:07,073
Most people were silent.
934
01:09:09,534 --> 01:09:14,497
I remembered the line from
the Hindu scripture
of the Bhagavadgita,
935
01:09:14,539 --> 01:09:16,541
"Now I am become death,
936
01:09:16,583 --> 01:09:18,209
"the destroyer of worlds."
937
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:25,091
About a hundred years ago,
Einstein gave us a framework
938
01:09:25,133 --> 01:09:27,302
that radically changed
modern physics,
939
01:09:27,343 --> 01:09:31,431
that put energy and matter
on some sort of
equivalent footing.
940
01:09:31,474 --> 01:09:34,018
We're going to have to expand
the language of physics
941
01:09:34,059 --> 01:09:36,395
to come to terms not only
with matter and energy,
942
01:09:36,437 --> 01:09:39,106
but matter, energy,
and maybe even
consciousness.
943
01:09:42,693 --> 01:09:47,448
NARRATOR: The human mindcan and must liberatewithin itself
944
01:09:47,490 --> 01:09:52,203
energies greater than those
within stones and metals.
945
01:09:52,244 --> 01:09:56,624
Lest the atomic giant,
newly unleashed,
946
01:09:56,665 --> 01:09:59,043
dawn on the world in
mindless destruction.
947
01:10:04,299 --> 01:10:06,426
CHOPRA: Modern science,as it is now,
948
01:10:06,468 --> 01:10:10,180
is based on what is called
the subject-object split.
949
01:10:10,222 --> 01:10:11,848
I am the subject
and there is the universe.
950
01:10:16,436 --> 01:10:19,231
Whereas spirituality
says that
951
01:10:19,272 --> 01:10:22,359
there's a consciousness
that includes the subject
952
01:10:22,401 --> 01:10:23,151
and the object.
953
01:10:25,946 --> 01:10:28,365
Consciousness gives
rise to everything,
including the brain.
954
01:10:32,245 --> 01:10:34,497
HARRISON: We've beenbrought up to think that
955
01:10:34,539 --> 01:10:38,584
the mind is this thing
that sits up here
somewhere in your brain.
956
01:10:38,626 --> 01:10:40,169
But really,
the mind is everywhere.
957
01:10:42,922 --> 01:10:44,632
NEWBERG: Some people haveargued that consciousness
958
01:10:44,674 --> 01:10:46,884
resides in every cell
of our body.
959
01:10:46,926 --> 01:10:49,053
The only way for us
to really understand
960
01:10:49,095 --> 01:10:51,180
the nature of consciousness
and what it is,
961
01:10:51,222 --> 01:10:55,184
is to explore it both
from the outside in
and from the inside out.
962
01:11:00,314 --> 01:11:04,986
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Delusion isthe belief that there'ssomething outside of you.
963
01:11:05,028 --> 01:11:08,449
But your happiness
is not based on any thing
outside of you.
964
01:11:09,950 --> 01:11:12,202
In the inside,
where the watcher
965
01:11:12,244 --> 01:11:14,872
is watching all
of the craziness,
966
01:11:14,913 --> 01:11:15,914
kind of just laughing.
967
01:11:17,124 --> 01:11:19,042
So look inside
for the watcher,
968
01:11:19,084 --> 01:11:20,210
and be connected
to the watcher.
969
01:11:22,045 --> 01:11:23,964
And then be awake.
970
01:11:28,218 --> 01:11:33,474
GOLDBERG: The Indianteachings that Yoganandarepresented were not escapes.
971
01:11:33,516 --> 01:11:37,187
They were methods of adapting
972
01:11:37,228 --> 01:11:39,898
to these upheavals
and these changes
973
01:11:39,939 --> 01:11:44,986
because they remind
people that we are
more than the personality
974
01:11:45,028 --> 01:11:48,031
and the roles that we play,
975
01:11:48,073 --> 01:11:49,783
and the body we inhabit.
976
01:11:52,494 --> 01:11:53,578
(MAN SPEAKING)
977
01:11:53,620 --> 01:11:55,205
When I am in the soul
978
01:11:55,246 --> 01:11:57,624
I know that...
979
01:11:57,665 --> 01:12:00,418
...nothing is important
on the earth.
980
01:12:00,460 --> 01:12:02,837
Nothing, nothing at all.
981
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,882
Only Love is important.
982
01:12:08,594 --> 01:12:11,097
GOLDBERG: If we're goingto change those kindof circumstances
983
01:12:11,138 --> 01:12:13,766
so there's hope
for our survival,
984
01:12:13,808 --> 01:12:15,267
the change has to
come from inside out.
985
01:12:19,146 --> 01:12:21,649
NARRATOR: A man who hasreformed himself
986
01:12:21,690 --> 01:12:23,275
will reform thousands.
987
01:12:31,993 --> 01:12:36,623
CHIDANANDA: Yogananda sawthat if there wasn't someway to reach the masses,
988
01:12:36,665 --> 01:12:39,751
with this message
of experiencing
989
01:12:39,793 --> 01:12:42,337
the spirit within
every human being,
990
01:12:42,379 --> 01:12:46,675
the world would not
survive the transition
into the atomic age.
991
01:12:46,716 --> 01:12:48,593
They were leading
this foundation at that time
992
01:12:48,635 --> 01:12:51,221
to bring
the teachings current.
993
01:12:51,263 --> 01:12:55,058
So they can really create
a transformation on
a collective level
994
01:12:55,100 --> 01:12:57,269
in the world,
not just in the forest.
995
01:12:57,310 --> 01:13:01,189
That forest is here now.
This is bigger,
and is ever-increasing.
996
01:13:01,231 --> 01:13:02,816
If we don't practice
the teachings here,
997
01:13:02,859 --> 01:13:04,318
there will be no
forest left at all.
998
01:13:15,413 --> 01:13:17,582
GOLDBERG: The autobiographywas a doorway in,
999
01:13:17,623 --> 01:13:20,793
it was a table setter
for millions of people.
1000
01:13:20,835 --> 01:13:24,881
Whether they ended
up being practitioners
of Kriya Yoga or not,
1001
01:13:24,922 --> 01:13:28,676
Yogananda was a doorway
into whatever pathway
they found.
1002
01:13:32,598 --> 01:13:34,808
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
1003
01:13:34,850 --> 01:13:36,351
(OVERLAPPING VOICES)
1004
01:13:40,731 --> 01:13:42,274
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
1005
01:13:42,316 --> 01:13:43,776
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
1006
01:13:53,452 --> 01:13:56,747
MARC BENIOFF: On the wayout of the memorialservice for Steve,
1007
01:13:56,789 --> 01:14:01,752
they handed us a copy
of Yogananda's book.
1008
01:14:01,794 --> 01:14:06,256
Steve's last message to us
was, "Actualize yourself."
1009
01:14:06,299 --> 01:14:08,384
That was Yogananda's message.
1010
01:14:08,426 --> 01:14:10,595
He was constantly
encouraging you
1011
01:14:10,637 --> 01:14:12,305
to simultaneously
be able to think
of yourself
1012
01:14:12,347 --> 01:14:13,389
as this little blip
on the planet
1013
01:14:15,642 --> 01:14:17,936
but on the other hand,
you also had
infinite potentialities.
1014
01:14:17,977 --> 01:14:19,395
You had
the eternal soul in you.
1015
01:14:21,064 --> 01:14:23,358
So, can you simultaneously
operate with that awareness
1016
01:14:23,399 --> 01:14:25,735
of recognizing,
in a humble way,
1017
01:14:25,777 --> 01:14:27,946
the limited bounds
of your human life,
1018
01:14:27,987 --> 01:14:29,197
and at the same time,
the infinite potentialities
1019
01:14:29,239 --> 01:14:30,240
of you as a soul.
1020
01:14:33,577 --> 01:14:35,413
We have a far too limited
1021
01:14:35,454 --> 01:14:37,748
sense of our capacity
as human beings
1022
01:14:37,790 --> 01:14:40,334
to overcome disease,
to overcome poverty.
1023
01:14:40,376 --> 01:14:41,710
And therefore,
to allow that power
1024
01:14:41,752 --> 01:14:43,295
to begin to transform
the world.
1025
01:14:48,509 --> 01:14:50,094
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
1026
01:14:55,182 --> 01:14:56,434
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
1027
01:15:11,700 --> 01:15:14,035
CHIDANANDA:
When the Ambassadorof India
1028
01:15:14,077 --> 01:15:16,246
visited Los Angeles
for the first time,
1029
01:15:16,288 --> 01:15:19,916
how happy Yogananda was
that this representative
of free India,
1030
01:15:19,958 --> 01:15:23,044
liberated from
the colonial rule,
had come to Los Angeles.
1031
01:15:23,086 --> 01:15:24,880
And he was able to honor him.
1032
01:15:29,551 --> 01:15:32,304
A banquet was organized
to welcome the ambassador.
1033
01:15:32,345 --> 01:15:34,055
And Yogananda,
being one of
1034
01:15:34,098 --> 01:15:36,726
the most well-known
Indians in the community,
1035
01:15:36,768 --> 01:15:39,854
was invited to give one of
the key speeches that night.
1036
01:15:42,356 --> 01:15:44,692
MRINALINI MATA:
The night before,
1037
01:15:44,734 --> 01:15:47,653
we were walking down the hall,
he turned to me and said,
1038
01:15:47,695 --> 01:15:50,156
"Do you know,
it's just a matter of hours,
1039
01:15:50,198 --> 01:15:51,449
"and I will be gone."
1040
01:15:54,035 --> 01:15:56,662
SWAMI KRIYANANDA: When Mastergot up to speak, I was there.
1041
01:15:59,457 --> 01:16:02,794
He had always said,
"When I die, I want to die
1042
01:16:02,835 --> 01:16:05,505
"speaking of my America
and my India."
1043
01:16:08,175 --> 01:16:11,887
DAYA MATA:
"Free me then, O Lord,from the bondage of the body
1044
01:16:11,929 --> 01:16:15,307
"that I may show others
how they can free themselves."
1045
01:16:18,619 --> 01:16:20,418
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
1046
01:16:20,420 --> 01:16:25,134
...lotus, scenic beauty,
and sages, thy wide doors
are open,
1047
01:16:25,251 --> 01:16:29,438
welcoming God's true sons
through all the ages.
1048
01:16:29,455 --> 01:16:32,282
Where Ganges,
woods, Himalayan caves,
1049
01:16:32,324 --> 01:16:33,909
and men dream God,
1050
01:16:35,203 --> 01:16:39,124
I am hallowed,
my body touched that sod.
1051
01:16:41,835 --> 01:16:46,214
CHIDANANDA: He finishedsaying, "I am hallowed,my body touched that sod,"
1052
01:16:46,256 --> 01:16:48,091
and then,
he collapsed to the floor.
1053
01:17:01,438 --> 01:17:04,482
MATA: As I kneeledover his body,
1054
01:17:04,525 --> 01:17:07,570
tremendous force
entered this body.
1055
01:17:09,864 --> 01:17:14,201
With the message to my soul,
1056
01:17:14,243 --> 01:17:16,245
"This time you cannot
call him back."
1057
01:17:39,394 --> 01:17:43,982
CHIDANANDA:
In the yoga tradition,there is a sacred practice
1058
01:17:44,024 --> 01:17:46,985
of knowing when you
will leave your body.
1059
01:17:48,987 --> 01:17:52,491
And so consciousness moves
to a grander space.
1060
01:17:56,369 --> 01:17:58,622
The doctor said that
he had a heart attack.
1061
01:18:10,093 --> 01:18:13,721
NARRATOR: Watch the shoreof the universe,
1062
01:18:13,763 --> 01:18:15,848
but do not become
absorbed in it.
1063
01:18:18,559 --> 01:18:20,978
I behold life
and death like
1064
01:18:21,020 --> 01:18:23,397
the rise and fall
of waves on the sea
1065
01:18:27,485 --> 01:18:29,654
I am the ocean
of consciousness.
1066
01:18:38,122 --> 01:18:40,332
A guru can't be
a little old man
in a blanket.
1067
01:18:41,166 --> 01:18:42,167
Or a guy in robes.
1068
01:18:43,377 --> 01:18:45,170
It could look like that,
1069
01:18:45,212 --> 01:18:50,884
because guru-ness
might be living in
that body for a while,
1070
01:18:50,926 --> 01:18:55,389
and it interacts with you
because you have a karmic
tie with that being,
1071
01:18:55,431 --> 01:18:58,517
but that being,
if he's really a guru,
1072
01:18:58,559 --> 01:19:00,769
he's not at all identified
with being in that body.
1073
01:19:07,110 --> 01:19:09,696
Once I asked a saint in India,
I said, "Athimara..."
1074
01:19:09,737 --> 01:19:12,449
I said, "How can I
get closer to my guru?"
1075
01:19:12,490 --> 01:19:14,659
He looked at me
like I was crazy.
1076
01:19:14,701 --> 01:19:19,372
He said, "Your guru
is what's looking out
of your eyes right now."
1077
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,376
So get with that for a while.
1078
01:21:15,284 --> 01:21:16,410
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
1079
01:21:16,452 --> 01:21:18,537
Everything is Brahma
1080
01:21:18,579 --> 01:21:20,747
Everything is Spirit
1081
01:21:20,789 --> 01:21:22,750
Everything is Light
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