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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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00:32:57,645 --> 00:32:58,979
(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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00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:12,785
You don't have to be afraid
of germs.
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00:33:12,827 --> 00:33:14,203
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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00:33:28,384 --> 00:33:30,344
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.
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00:33:47,612 --> 00:33:52,074
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
00:35:07,399 --> 00:35:09,902
Go up and down the spine.
479
00:35:09,944 --> 00:35:15,825
Feeling the centers
and mentally chanting "om."
480
00:35:15,867 --> 00:35:19,787
WOMAN'S VOICE: Dear Guruji,I have absorbed so much.
481
00:35:19,829 --> 00:35:25,209
I will try to keep
it all within me,
and profit by it.
482
00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,046
Self-realization
has helped my career.
483
00:35:28,087 --> 00:35:30,631
It has helped me
to think very little of me,
484
00:35:30,673 --> 00:35:33,801
and let the great spirit
pass through me.
485
00:35:53,071 --> 00:35:54,154
NARRATOR:
Dear Swami Dhirananda...
486
00:35:54,613 --> 00:35:56,156
(READING)
487
00:36:02,121 --> 00:36:05,499
Mount Washington needed
someone to be at the helm.
488
00:36:05,541 --> 00:36:08,711
While Guruji traveled
throughout the United States,
489
00:36:08,753 --> 00:36:10,337
lecturing, giving classes.
490
00:36:15,426 --> 00:36:17,762
He brought one of his
most beloved friends.
491
00:36:17,803 --> 00:36:20,389
He was a very capable teacher.
492
00:36:20,431 --> 00:36:23,976
He was very well-liked.
493
00:36:24,018 --> 00:36:27,396
NARRATOR: I am powerlessto tell how greatlyhe has helped me
494
00:36:27,438 --> 00:36:30,441
in carrying on
my educational work
in India and Boston.
495
00:36:32,276 --> 00:36:34,403
He successfully
carried on the work
496
00:36:34,445 --> 00:36:38,866
at the Ranchi school
during my absence from India.
497
00:36:38,908 --> 00:36:41,535
CHIDANANDA: This washis childhood friendfrom Calcutta.
498
00:36:43,746 --> 00:36:47,416
I think as boys,
both of them felt that their
families didn't understand
499
00:36:47,458 --> 00:36:49,085
their spiritual longings.
500
00:36:49,127 --> 00:36:51,129
In fact, Dhirananda
said that it was
501
00:36:51,170 --> 00:36:53,089
impossible for him
to even meditate
502
00:36:53,131 --> 00:36:54,506
at his family home.
503
00:36:57,384 --> 00:37:01,680
So Yogananda allowed him
to hide out in his attic room
504
00:37:01,722 --> 00:37:04,892
and he would sneak food up
to him after the meals.
505
00:37:14,318 --> 00:37:18,990
CHIDANANDA: The 1920swas a period of almostceaseless travel for him.
506
00:37:19,031 --> 00:37:22,326
He was visiting all
of the largest cities
in the Unites States,
507
00:37:22,367 --> 00:37:24,120
where people were
getting their first
508
00:37:24,162 --> 00:37:25,704
glimpse of this
yoga philosophy.
509
00:37:27,372 --> 00:37:29,708
There is no, um,
precursor for Yogananda.
510
00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:32,920
He has to do something
completely new that no one
has done before.
511
00:37:32,962 --> 00:37:35,464
There is no path.
512
00:37:35,506 --> 00:37:37,842
GOLDBERG: There wereother gurus who came.
513
00:37:37,883 --> 00:37:42,680
Swami Vivekananda,
whom Yogananda
respected greatly,
514
00:37:42,721 --> 00:37:46,350
had been here and started
the Vedanta Society
in the 1890s.
515
00:37:47,476 --> 00:37:50,270
But he only stayed
a few years.
516
00:37:50,312 --> 00:37:53,315
Yogananda was
the first major guru
517
00:37:53,357 --> 00:37:58,696
to have a nationwide impact
and really make
America his home.
518
00:37:59,864 --> 00:38:01,032
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
519
00:38:01,073 --> 00:38:03,534
In America, everybody is busy.
520
00:38:03,575 --> 00:38:05,661
If you keep on running after
too many hobbies,
521
00:38:05,703 --> 00:38:07,788
you won't have any time left
for bliss.
522
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:22,220
VIDAL: Everything wascovered in the lessons,
523
00:38:22,261 --> 00:38:24,722
from how to achieve
success in our life.
524
00:38:24,763 --> 00:38:27,141
Magnetizing or
attracting your soul mate.
525
00:38:27,183 --> 00:38:30,936
Creating abundance,
how to create
harmony with others,
526
00:38:30,978 --> 00:38:32,980
how to find happiness.
527
00:38:34,565 --> 00:38:38,277
You people do not
sleep correctly.
528
00:38:38,318 --> 00:38:42,698
You subconsciously worry
about unpaid bills.
529
00:38:42,740 --> 00:38:46,326
And allow your
sleep to be disturbed
530
00:38:46,368 --> 00:38:49,121
by the mental
movies of dreams.
531
00:38:50,414 --> 00:38:54,418
By closing the eyes,
and inner relaxation
532
00:38:54,459 --> 00:38:58,964
I can remain
asleep several nights.
533
00:38:59,006 --> 00:39:03,219
And by opening the eyes
and recharging the body,
534
00:39:03,261 --> 00:39:05,304
I can keep awake several days.
535
00:39:08,557 --> 00:39:11,852
CHIDANANDA: Willpower isreally one of theabsolute necessities
536
00:39:11,894 --> 00:39:13,771
for spiritual progress.
537
00:39:13,812 --> 00:39:16,565
Yogananda defined
willpower this way,
he said,
538
00:39:16,607 --> 00:39:19,902
"Will is that
which changes thought
into energy."
539
00:39:25,532 --> 00:39:26,992
"He asks the six
men to line up
540
00:39:27,034 --> 00:39:28,827
"with their hand
on each other's back
541
00:39:28,869 --> 00:39:31,997
"making a line
across the platform.
542
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,294
"Swamiji said, 'The first one,
put your hands on my stomach.'
543
00:39:36,335 --> 00:39:38,378
"With just a tiny
straightening of his body
544
00:39:38,420 --> 00:39:40,547
"and a quick
flick of his stomach,
545
00:39:40,589 --> 00:39:44,302
"Swamiji sent the six men
catapulting across the stage."
546
00:39:44,343 --> 00:39:46,095
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
547
00:39:46,137 --> 00:39:49,098
What's the key of success?
Concentration power.
548
00:39:50,682 --> 00:39:54,770
You meditate to achieve
the concentration powers.
549
00:39:57,189 --> 00:40:01,110
VIDAL: He would controlhis heart and stop the pulse.
550
00:40:01,152 --> 00:40:04,029
And the doctors would rush,
check his pulse,
551
00:40:04,071 --> 00:40:06,324
he's dying,
he doesn't have a pulse.
552
00:40:06,365 --> 00:40:09,327
And then he would
bring himself back to life.
553
00:40:11,578 --> 00:40:15,291
CHOUDHURY: Every human beingin the world hasa supernatural power.
554
00:40:15,333 --> 00:40:17,293
But having doesn't
mean anything
555
00:40:17,335 --> 00:40:20,129
if you don't
know how to use it.
556
00:40:20,171 --> 00:40:24,091
MALE ANNOUNCER: Yoga combinesthe physical, mentaland spiritual forces.
557
00:40:24,133 --> 00:40:26,510
Bikram must be in
complete control,
558
00:40:26,551 --> 00:40:28,387
or he's in danger
of being impaled.
559
00:40:28,428 --> 00:40:29,429
Here he goes.
560
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,478
He did it!
And Yogi Bikram
is all right.
561
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,357
CHOUDHURY:
But before you use it,you have to realize it.
562
00:40:39,398 --> 00:40:42,860
That's why Yogananda called
it self-realization.
563
00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:44,987
You have to
realize that power.
564
00:40:45,029 --> 00:40:47,865
Supernatural, cosmic,
physical, mental,
spiritual power.
565
00:40:50,326 --> 00:40:52,703
NARRATOR: Don't takemy word for anything.
566
00:40:52,744 --> 00:40:56,999
Apply these techniques,
and find out for yourselves.
567
00:40:57,041 --> 00:41:00,085
MARTIN: Here is a small,brown, mystic,
568
00:41:00,127 --> 00:41:02,213
from a nation that
very few Americans
569
00:41:02,254 --> 00:41:04,131
had ever been to,
much less read about.
570
00:41:04,173 --> 00:41:07,176
And he is here
delivering his message
with such force
571
00:41:07,218 --> 00:41:09,720
through personal transmission
to people who came to see him.
572
00:41:12,097 --> 00:41:16,852
NARRATOR: Most importantis to create a churchwithin yourself.
573
00:41:16,894 --> 00:41:20,356
Where you are the minister
in the temple
of your own soul.
574
00:41:21,690 --> 00:41:24,026
When somebody is in
a deep meditation,
575
00:41:24,068 --> 00:41:25,361
there are
changes in the brain.
576
00:41:25,403 --> 00:41:27,071
We've seen changes
in the brain scans
577
00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:28,197
of the different
parts of the brain
578
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,281
that become more active.
579
00:41:30,741 --> 00:41:33,035
What you're seeing during
a meditation practice
580
00:41:33,077 --> 00:41:35,287
is a very substantial
decrease of activity
581
00:41:35,329 --> 00:41:37,081
in the part of
the brain which normally
582
00:41:37,122 --> 00:41:38,999
helps us to create
a sense of ourself
583
00:41:39,041 --> 00:41:42,294
and a sense of our orientation
in space and time.
584
00:41:42,336 --> 00:41:46,631
As you progressively
block the activity
in that area,
585
00:41:46,673 --> 00:41:50,677
then you block your
ability to establish
your sense of self
586
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,430
as distinguished
from the rest
of the world.
587
00:41:52,471 --> 00:41:55,307
And you begin to feel
that sense of deep
connectedness or oneness
588
00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:56,600
with everything in the world.
589
00:41:58,269 --> 00:42:00,645
GOEL: I'm a physicistand a physician.
590
00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:02,981
I spent years
between the Harvard
physics department
591
00:42:03,023 --> 00:42:04,191
and Harvard Medical School.
592
00:42:04,233 --> 00:42:05,984
Going back and forth
across the Charles River,
593
00:42:06,026 --> 00:42:07,361
but they don't talk
to each other.
594
00:42:10,822 --> 00:42:14,410
As a child, having been
exposed to things
like Vedic philosophy
595
00:42:14,452 --> 00:42:16,536
growing up in
rural Mississippi,
596
00:42:16,578 --> 00:42:19,706
I became inspired
by this deep belief
597
00:42:19,748 --> 00:42:22,000
that there's
an underlying unity
in nature.
598
00:42:22,042 --> 00:42:24,586
By which these
different fields
could come together.
599
00:42:24,628 --> 00:42:27,339
So that led me
to want to combine
600
00:42:27,381 --> 00:42:28,924
these two worlds of
physics and biomedicine.
601
00:42:32,303 --> 00:42:35,389
Physics, our physics
of the last century
602
00:42:35,431 --> 00:42:36,932
has not come
to terms with life,
603
00:42:36,974 --> 00:42:40,727
living systems and things
like consciousness.
604
00:42:40,769 --> 00:42:46,733
The writings of Yogananda
are very appealing
to a scientific appetite.
605
00:42:46,775 --> 00:42:49,569
He was committed
to bringing together
606
00:42:50,695 --> 00:42:53,573
the technology and
the material efficiency
607
00:42:53,615 --> 00:42:55,659
and the scientific
understanding of the West
608
00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:59,079
with the ancient
spiritual wisdom
of the East.
609
00:42:59,121 --> 00:43:03,334
And creating
a unified framework
and an integrated approach
610
00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:07,129
to living life on this planet.
611
00:43:19,766 --> 00:43:21,726
ROBERT LOVE: In Washington,something remarkable happened.
612
00:43:23,979 --> 00:43:26,106
Yogananda drew
the largest audiences
613
00:43:26,148 --> 00:43:28,526
a public speaker
had drawn in the city.
614
00:43:28,567 --> 00:43:30,944
Congressmen, senators, judges,
615
00:43:30,986 --> 00:43:34,781
and he was even
invited to the White House
by President Coolidge.
616
00:43:34,823 --> 00:43:37,701
But Yogananda came in
for a rude awakening
when he was in Washington,
617
00:43:37,742 --> 00:43:40,412
which is really part of
the American South.
618
00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:44,041
NARRATOR: In the nationalcapital, I was told
619
00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,251
that white people only
would be permitted
620
00:43:46,293 --> 00:43:47,627
to attend the classes.
621
00:43:48,587 --> 00:43:50,381
This surprised me very much.
622
00:43:51,423 --> 00:43:53,384
I defied this.
623
00:43:53,425 --> 00:43:57,637
And founded
a Afro-American Yogoda center
to teach my negro brethren.
624
00:44:04,186 --> 00:44:08,440
Cosmic delusion is
always snaring us
through our ignorance.
625
00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:14,946
LOVE: The civil rightsmovement was stilldecades away,
626
00:44:14,988 --> 00:44:16,740
and it was inspired,
in fact, by
627
00:44:16,781 --> 00:44:19,159
a revolution that
was fomenting in India.
628
00:44:22,246 --> 00:44:24,998
CHIDANANDA: Many peopledon't realize thatGandhi was a yogi,
629
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,252
and he was putting
yoga principles
such as non-violence
630
00:44:28,293 --> 00:44:31,713
into action on a mass scale.
631
00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:34,758
SYMAN: Yogananda himselfwas a very open andvocal supporter of Gandhi
632
00:44:34,799 --> 00:44:36,760
and lectured at Harvard
about him and his movement.
633
00:44:40,013 --> 00:44:42,433
LOVE: For this, he was put ona government watch list
634
00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:45,185
and kept under surveillance.
635
00:44:45,227 --> 00:44:48,146
SONI: Anyone affiliatedwith India, and someonespecifically affiliated
636
00:44:48,188 --> 00:44:50,899
with Mahatma Gandhi
would be a person of interest,
637
00:44:50,941 --> 00:44:52,984
for the American government.
638
00:44:53,026 --> 00:44:56,821
Why are these people drawn
to this heathen teacher?
639
00:44:56,863 --> 00:45:00,325
Oh, what is he doing
behind closed doors?
640
00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:03,703
Are they trying to overthrow
our government too?
641
00:45:05,664 --> 00:45:06,998
LOVE: There was literally
642
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,709
a war against yoga
being waged in the media.
643
00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:20,845
GOLDBERG: A huge scandalerupted when
644
00:45:20,887 --> 00:45:25,267
Swami Dhirananda,
Yogananda's right-hand man,
645
00:45:25,309 --> 00:45:28,728
was discovered giving
private lessons
to a married woman.
646
00:45:30,188 --> 00:45:32,023
And her husband...
647
00:45:32,065 --> 00:45:36,736
...found out about it,
stormed Mount Washington,
and a brawl erupted.
648
00:45:39,573 --> 00:45:42,826
There were crazy
tracts being written,
649
00:45:42,867 --> 00:45:46,330
rumors,
all kinds of allegations,
650
00:45:46,371 --> 00:45:47,914
not just about Yogananda,
651
00:45:47,956 --> 00:45:50,917
but some of the other swamis
and yoga teachers
652
00:45:50,959 --> 00:45:56,047
that this was a love cult
and they were corrupting
the women of America.
653
00:45:57,924 --> 00:46:00,093
SONI:
Yogananda, as a yogi,would often talk
654
00:46:00,135 --> 00:46:02,262
about mastery
over one's sexuality,
655
00:46:02,304 --> 00:46:05,307
over one's urges.
Self-discipline.
656
00:46:05,349 --> 00:46:08,768
But oftentimes that
was misinterpreted
to mean something scandalous.
657
00:46:11,896 --> 00:46:14,816
LOVE: You had a kind ofparanoia on the part of
658
00:46:14,858 --> 00:46:17,277
the husbands and
law enforcement officials,
659
00:46:17,319 --> 00:46:19,363
that, you know,
we couldn't trust our women
660
00:46:19,404 --> 00:46:22,533
with these
dark-skinned
foreigners.
661
00:46:22,574 --> 00:46:25,369
SYMAN: You can readbetween the lines herewhat the problem really is.
662
00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:28,246
I mean this was a period where
miscegenation laws, you know,
663
00:46:28,288 --> 00:46:30,790
you were forbidden in America,
if you were white,
664
00:46:30,832 --> 00:46:34,252
to marry
a brown-skinned man or woman.
665
00:46:34,294 --> 00:46:36,755
So, I mean, it was
illegal to mix
the races at that point.
666
00:46:37,715 --> 00:46:39,174
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
667
00:46:39,216 --> 00:46:40,884
This marriage is symbolical...
668
00:46:40,925 --> 00:46:43,094
of breaking down
the barriers...
669
00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:46,306
of the brown Caucasian
of India...
670
00:46:46,348 --> 00:46:49,059
...and the white Caucasian
of America.
671
00:46:49,643 --> 00:46:50,644
Om.
672
00:46:51,353 --> 00:46:52,396
Amen
673
00:46:53,313 --> 00:46:54,314
Om.
674
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,738
SYMAN: On the one hand,open-minded Americans
675
00:47:00,779 --> 00:47:03,114
revered him,
but his unorthodox views
676
00:47:03,156 --> 00:47:06,117
really raised the ire of more
conservative Americans.
677
00:47:07,703 --> 00:47:10,205
By the time he went
into the Deep South,
678
00:47:10,247 --> 00:47:11,831
it really reached
a fever pitch.
679
00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:19,757
LOVE: "Swami wasordered to leave Miamifor his own safety.
680
00:47:19,798 --> 00:47:21,841
"The husbands of
more than 200 Miami women
681
00:47:21,883 --> 00:47:24,261
"were preparing to,
'get the Hindu.'"
682
00:47:25,929 --> 00:47:27,931
SYMAN: His supportersswarmed City Hall,
683
00:47:27,972 --> 00:47:30,434
and during the hearing,
Police Chief Quigg
684
00:47:30,475 --> 00:47:32,603
claims that Yogananda
tried to hypnotize him.
685
00:47:43,029 --> 00:47:45,449
SONI: Yogananda's nolonger being invited
686
00:47:45,490 --> 00:47:47,284
to receive the keys
to different cities.
687
00:47:48,452 --> 00:47:50,495
He's no longer being
invited to speak
688
00:47:50,537 --> 00:47:52,080
to different
religious congregations.
689
00:47:54,165 --> 00:47:56,960
NARRATOR: I am going throughthe severest trial of my life.
690
00:47:59,588 --> 00:48:02,882
Judge for yourself
the lying capacity
of the newspapers.
691
00:48:07,929 --> 00:48:11,809
CHIDANANDA: Back in LosAngeles, the district attorneyeventually cleared Yogananda,
692
00:48:11,850 --> 00:48:14,436
and Mount Washington
of all wrong-doing.
693
00:48:14,478 --> 00:48:15,895
But the damage had
already been done.
694
00:48:22,068 --> 00:48:26,490
NARRATOR: The fruitsof a lifetime of serviceto mankind
695
00:48:26,531 --> 00:48:31,620
reduced to ashes
by the soulless efforts
of yellow journalism.
696
00:48:37,584 --> 00:48:40,504
CLOONEY: All these incidentsculminated in a falling out
697
00:48:40,545 --> 00:48:42,464
between Yogananda
and Dhirananda.
698
00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:47,093
Dhirananda left,
699
00:48:47,135 --> 00:48:50,848
and started
another organization not far
from Mount Washington.
700
00:48:55,477 --> 00:48:57,604
LOVE: Many of the studentswent with Dhirananda
701
00:48:57,646 --> 00:48:59,314
because Yogananda
had been busy
702
00:48:59,356 --> 00:49:00,940
touring the country
for the last year.
703
00:49:16,540 --> 00:49:19,250
CHIDANANDA: The finalheartbreak camea couple of years later,
704
00:49:19,292 --> 00:49:22,504
when Dhirananda left
the Swami Order altogether.
705
00:49:22,546 --> 00:49:24,798
And married one of his
Los Angeles students.
706
00:49:26,675 --> 00:49:28,677
Then he sued Yogananda
707
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,762
for his share of the work
they had done together.
708
00:49:42,482 --> 00:49:45,068
NARRATOR: With a heavy heart,I'm starting for Mexico.
709
00:49:46,653 --> 00:49:48,446
Cutting loose from everything,
710
00:49:48,488 --> 00:49:51,991
that I may consecrate myself
to God entirely.
711
00:50:05,672 --> 00:50:08,216
Divine Mother,
712
00:50:08,258 --> 00:50:13,805
free me,
let me go back to India,
to serve you there, not here.
713
00:50:13,847 --> 00:50:18,309
There, there is bitterness
and heartache and frustration.
714
00:50:18,351 --> 00:50:20,437
And no one to listen
to your message.
715
00:50:32,490 --> 00:50:36,286
VISHWANANDA: In Yogananda'sdarkest hours, there's onlyone place that he went.
716
00:50:38,705 --> 00:50:39,831
He always went within.
717
00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:49,549
We call it God,
place of stillness.
718
00:51:26,252 --> 00:51:28,171
NARRATOR: Many timesI have tried to walk away
719
00:51:28,212 --> 00:51:30,089
from these organizational
responsibilities.
720
00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:35,971
Every time, Divine Mother
comes and takes me by the ear
721
00:51:36,013 --> 00:51:37,848
and says, "Come back."
722
00:51:41,267 --> 00:51:43,687
He said, "When I received
that answer, I wept.
723
00:51:45,897 --> 00:51:47,190
"And I knew I had to go back.
724
00:51:48,650 --> 00:51:50,735
"I knew this is what
God wanted from me."
725
00:51:55,532 --> 00:51:57,951
NARRATOR: Walking away underthe guise of renunciation,
726
00:51:57,993 --> 00:52:00,328
all non-attachment
is the easy part.
727
00:52:03,414 --> 00:52:06,001
It shows more
spiritual fiber to live
728
00:52:06,043 --> 00:52:08,670
a godly life
in the jungle
of civilization.
729
00:52:11,589 --> 00:52:12,632
I love all.
730
00:52:14,342 --> 00:52:17,345
Even those who avow
themselves my enemies.
731
00:52:18,930 --> 00:52:22,141
For I see thee in every being.
732
00:52:30,483 --> 00:52:34,445
I will rebuild this
organization from scratch.
733
00:52:34,487 --> 00:52:38,491
Just as I did when
I arrived from India in 1920.
734
00:52:41,244 --> 00:52:43,538
MATA: With that renewed faith,
735
00:52:43,580 --> 00:52:44,873
and the determination
736
00:52:44,915 --> 00:52:46,124
that he would not give up
737
00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:48,877
even though he was sorely
738
00:52:48,919 --> 00:52:50,921
tried and wanted to leave,
739
00:52:50,962 --> 00:52:53,590
he began to draw disciples.
740
00:52:54,883 --> 00:52:56,593
One of them was me.
741
00:52:59,387 --> 00:53:03,975
I came in 1931.
Many other young
people came.
742
00:53:04,017 --> 00:53:05,309
There were older people here,
743
00:53:05,351 --> 00:53:07,062
there was
all ages living here.
744
00:53:08,813 --> 00:53:11,566
LOVE: Yoganandahad consistentlydrawn his devotees
745
00:53:11,608 --> 00:53:13,359
from all walks of life.
746
00:53:13,401 --> 00:53:18,197
Prominent businessmen,
judges, lawyers,
even hardened journalists.
747
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,200
But by the early 1930s,
something very different
was beginning.
748
00:53:22,577 --> 00:53:24,955
A small, core group
of devotees
749
00:53:24,996 --> 00:53:27,165
came to Yogananda
and asked to be accepted into
750
00:53:27,206 --> 00:53:30,919
this monastic path
of complete renunciation.
751
00:53:30,961 --> 00:53:34,297
To completely
devote their whole lives
to following his teachings,
752
00:53:34,338 --> 00:53:38,009
and seeking God
through this path
of Kriya Yoga meditation.
753
00:53:41,638 --> 00:53:45,183
James Lynn,
the wealthy businessman,
was one of them.
754
00:53:45,224 --> 00:53:47,936
And he'd go on to become
a highly advanced yogi,
755
00:53:47,978 --> 00:53:50,229
and take monastic vows
like the others.
756
00:53:54,151 --> 00:53:56,153
And so through Yogananda,
757
00:53:56,194 --> 00:53:58,321
this ancient
monastic swami order
758
00:53:58,362 --> 00:54:00,115
from India
took root
in America.
759
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,244
MATA: Now began the training.
760
00:54:05,286 --> 00:54:09,166
I knew nothing
about renunciation.
761
00:54:09,207 --> 00:54:13,586
CHIDANANDA: The new monasticstook strict vows,like Yogananda himself,
762
00:54:13,628 --> 00:54:18,008
of simplicity, celibacy,
obedience, and loyalty.
763
00:54:20,510 --> 00:54:25,056
Yogananda's lay students
faced other challenges.
764
00:54:25,098 --> 00:54:28,518
HERB JEFFRIES: I'd been thereabout six or seven weeks,and I said
765
00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:32,147
"Guruji, all my life,
I heard thou canst not,
766
00:54:32,189 --> 00:54:35,108
"thou shalt not,
thou must not.
767
00:54:35,150 --> 00:54:37,986
"These are
the rules of the religious
teachings that I've heard
768
00:54:38,028 --> 00:54:39,070
"around my relatives."
769
00:54:41,614 --> 00:54:44,909
"What I want to know from you
is, what canst thou?"
770
00:54:46,036 --> 00:54:48,454
He said "Well, do you smoke?"
771
00:54:48,496 --> 00:54:50,832
And I said, "Yes."
He said, "You may continue."
772
00:54:50,874 --> 00:54:52,917
"Do you drink?"
773
00:54:52,959 --> 00:54:55,837
"Alcohol?" I said, "Yes."
He said, "You may continue."
774
00:54:57,338 --> 00:54:58,923
"Do you
775
00:54:58,965 --> 00:55:02,426
"enjoy the opposite
sex promiscuously?"
776
00:55:04,095 --> 00:55:06,223
"Yes."
"Well, you may continue."
777
00:55:06,973 --> 00:55:08,183
I said, "Wait a minute.
778
00:55:08,225 --> 00:55:09,433
"You mean that I can
779
00:55:09,475 --> 00:55:11,769
"come up on this hill here,
780
00:55:11,811 --> 00:55:13,271
"in this good place
with all of these
781
00:55:13,312 --> 00:55:15,023
"wonderful people,
your disciples
782
00:55:15,065 --> 00:55:17,067
"and the devotees,
and the brothers up here,
783
00:55:17,108 --> 00:55:19,277
"and study these teachings,
784
00:55:19,318 --> 00:55:20,987
"and I can go back down there
785
00:55:21,029 --> 00:55:22,780
"and do all these things?"
786
00:55:22,822 --> 00:55:24,448
"Absolutely."
787
00:55:24,490 --> 00:55:26,701
"But I will
not promise you that as you
788
00:55:26,743 --> 00:55:29,370
"continue to study
these teachings,
789
00:55:29,412 --> 00:55:31,330
"that the desire
to do these things
790
00:55:31,372 --> 00:55:32,331
"will not fall away from you."
791
00:55:35,626 --> 00:55:39,964
NARRATOR: Repeatedperformance of inactioncreates a mental blueprint.
792
00:55:40,006 --> 00:55:41,883
Causing the formation
of subtle,
793
00:55:41,925 --> 00:55:44,010
electrical pathways
in the brain.
794
00:55:44,052 --> 00:55:46,387
Somewhat like the grooves
in a phonograph record.
795
00:55:47,555 --> 00:55:50,183
Your life follows
the grooves
796
00:55:50,225 --> 00:55:52,351
that you yourself
have created in the brain.
797
00:55:55,272 --> 00:55:59,317
NEWBERG: It appearsthat Yogananda was talkingabout neuroplasticity
798
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,321
almost 50 years
before Western doctors
took an interest in it.
799
00:56:03,362 --> 00:56:05,823
He said that
regular Kriya practice
800
00:56:05,865 --> 00:56:10,745
could rewire your brain
and help eliminate
unwanted habits.
801
00:56:10,787 --> 00:56:13,456
HARRISON: The Autobiography
of a Yogi is the book
802
00:56:13,497 --> 00:56:16,709
that I keep stacks
of around the house.
803
00:56:16,751 --> 00:56:21,214
And I give it out
constantly, you know,
to people.
804
00:56:21,256 --> 00:56:23,382
You know, like when people
need regrooving.
805
00:56:25,009 --> 00:56:26,010
Read this.
806
00:56:28,679 --> 00:56:30,265
BROTHER ANANDAMOY: We are nottalking about suppression,
807
00:56:30,307 --> 00:56:31,515
we are talking
about transmutation.
808
00:56:32,934 --> 00:56:35,312
Rechanneling,
that's the whole
science of yoga,
809
00:56:35,353 --> 00:56:37,939
rechanneling your energy.
810
00:56:37,981 --> 00:56:40,108
Creating new patterns
of thinking,
811
00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:42,068
new patterns of
the emotional life.
812
00:56:45,238 --> 00:56:48,783
SISTER PARVATI: When helooked at you penetratingly,he was changing you.
813
00:56:48,825 --> 00:56:50,327
He said,
when he looked at you
814
00:56:50,368 --> 00:56:52,787
he was changing
your brain cells.
815
00:56:53,579 --> 00:56:55,206
And he did.
816
00:56:58,209 --> 00:57:01,338
LEO COCKS: He startedgoing into my innerthoughts and feelings,
817
00:57:01,379 --> 00:57:03,673
maybe things where
you've slipped a little.
818
00:57:03,714 --> 00:57:05,967
He dissected me on
the deepest level
I've ever been.
819
00:57:07,093 --> 00:57:08,886
I felt like I was
being carved down
820
00:57:08,928 --> 00:57:12,307
into a little tiny person,
down to almost like an ant.
821
00:57:14,892 --> 00:57:17,436
And I remember
I just literally
couldn't take anymore.
822
00:57:18,855 --> 00:57:20,731
Humanly, emotionally
823
00:57:20,773 --> 00:57:23,818
couldn't take it.
You know, I was hurting.
I was crying.
824
00:57:26,196 --> 00:57:29,115
He reached over
and he gave me a big hug.
825
00:57:31,534 --> 00:57:33,577
"I've given you
my unconditional love,"
he says.
826
00:57:33,619 --> 00:57:35,288
"Do not fail to take
advantage of it."
827
00:57:38,624 --> 00:57:41,794
It's a friendship
and a love that...
828
00:57:41,836 --> 00:57:45,464
He took you as you were
and he gave it all to you
as much as you could take.
829
00:57:54,932 --> 00:57:56,726
NARRATOR: There is justa thin screen
830
00:57:56,767 --> 00:57:59,937
of ether between
the world and my guru.
831
00:58:02,357 --> 00:58:04,525
He's haunting me
day and night.
832
00:58:06,444 --> 00:58:08,612
"Return to India.
833
00:58:08,654 --> 00:58:11,615
"You must come.
Make the supreme effort."
834
00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:20,250
Traversing ten thousand miles
in the twinkling of an eye.
835
00:58:20,291 --> 00:58:23,961
His message
penetrated my being
like a flash of lightning.
836
00:58:26,381 --> 00:58:30,009
I have spent 15 years
in spreading my guru's
teachings in America.
837
00:58:30,718 --> 00:58:32,511
Now he recalls me.
838
00:58:45,275 --> 00:58:49,070
Our arrival found
such an immense crowd
assembled to greet us.
839
00:58:49,112 --> 00:58:52,823
I was unprepared
for the magnitude
of our welcome.
840
00:58:58,955 --> 00:59:01,332
We broke our journey
halfway across
the continent,
841
00:59:01,374 --> 00:59:02,583
to see Mahatma Gandhi.
842
00:59:07,505 --> 00:59:09,799
After great discussions
he took lessons,
843
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,052
Kriya,
and recharging exercises.
844
00:59:13,094 --> 00:59:17,181
I was touched
by his spirit of inquiry.
845
00:59:17,223 --> 00:59:21,644
When we prayed together,
the whole place
seemed filled with God.
846
00:59:27,233 --> 00:59:31,195
WRIGHT: Master couldhardly wait until hegot to meet his master.
847
00:59:50,881 --> 00:59:51,674
It was indescribable, the...
848
00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:55,512
...meeting between the two.
849
00:59:58,722 --> 01:00:03,894
Master dropped to
his knees, touched his feet,
of Sri Yukteswar Giri
850
01:00:03,936 --> 01:00:07,148
Yukteswar Giri
was welcoming back
his triumphant son.
851
01:00:11,110 --> 01:00:14,989
NARRATOR: A healing calmdescended at the mere sightof my guru.
852
01:00:17,283 --> 01:00:19,369
Quietly sitting beside him,
853
01:00:19,410 --> 01:00:24,040
I would feel his bounty
pouring peacefully
over my being.
854
01:00:30,713 --> 01:00:33,550
Such spiritual atmosphere
I so long missed.
855
01:00:35,426 --> 01:00:39,847
Day and night
passes with God-mad,
God-hungry crowds.
856
01:00:47,522 --> 01:00:49,732
It's wonderful to work
amidst people
857
01:00:49,773 --> 01:00:52,235
who don't need coaxing
to be spiritual.
858
01:01:02,537 --> 01:01:05,456
The Himalayan caves
are calling me.
859
01:01:05,498 --> 01:01:08,751
And the people's heart-caves
are welcoming me.
860
01:01:16,717 --> 01:01:20,846
But for a few
beloved disciples
at Mount Washington,
861
01:01:20,888 --> 01:01:22,848
I have no attraction
to go back to America.
862
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:29,980
I would roam by
the Jumna where Krishna
played his flute of eternity
863
01:01:30,022 --> 01:01:32,233
and never visit the shores
of material life.
864
01:02:03,306 --> 01:02:05,975
The line of Bengal is gone.
865
01:02:24,285 --> 01:02:29,499
The body which had reflected
omnipresent wisdom lay
lifeless, before me, mocking.
866
01:03:09,163 --> 01:03:09,955
Master mine,
867
01:03:12,458 --> 01:03:13,626
why did you leave me?
868
01:03:53,082 --> 01:03:57,294
The Lord is showing me,
wherever I am,
869
01:03:57,336 --> 01:03:58,379
that's my home.
870
01:04:01,090 --> 01:04:02,508
My home is on the train.
871
01:04:04,009 --> 01:04:05,762
Then it shall be in the hotel.
872
01:04:06,512 --> 01:04:07,764
And then on the ship.
873
01:04:09,515 --> 01:04:10,767
How can I leave my home?
874
01:04:11,684 --> 01:04:13,060
It's everywhere.
875
01:04:22,319 --> 01:04:26,865
CHIDANANDA: When Sri Yukteswarfirst sent Yoganandaon his mission to America,
876
01:04:26,907 --> 01:04:28,743
it was right
after World War I,
877
01:04:28,785 --> 01:04:31,870
which was supposed to be
the war to end all wars.
878
01:04:35,249 --> 01:04:39,462
Now, tensions were heating up
in Europe and Asia,
879
01:04:39,503 --> 01:04:42,005
and Yogananda saw
that we could be
880
01:04:42,047 --> 01:04:44,550
entering a period of
even greater horror.
881
01:04:49,430 --> 01:04:52,057
CHIDANANDA: The needfor the teachings wasmore urgent than ever.
882
01:05:11,452 --> 01:05:14,913
After his guru died,
something shifted in him.
883
01:05:20,919 --> 01:05:26,550
GOLDBERG: He was justexperiencing these profoundstates of consciousness.
884
01:05:26,592 --> 01:05:28,552
His eyes just turned glassy.
He just... (WHOOSHES)
Withdrew.
885
01:05:29,512 --> 01:05:30,805
And he was gone, you know.
886
01:05:35,434 --> 01:05:40,022
MATA: And ofttimes it gaveconcern to us younger ones.
887
01:05:40,063 --> 01:05:41,774
His heart seemed
to cease beating.
888
01:05:46,529 --> 01:05:51,158
He had instructed us
that whenever he
went into Samadhi,
889
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:52,743
that we could
bring him out of it
890
01:05:52,785 --> 01:05:55,579
by chanting "om"
in his right ear.
891
01:05:56,997 --> 01:05:58,833
And I thought "Wow.
This is something different."
892
01:05:58,875 --> 01:06:00,793
This was a little scary.
893
01:06:00,835 --> 01:06:02,336
(GASPS)
894
01:06:02,378 --> 01:06:05,964
Is my guru,
always now going to be
895
01:06:06,006 --> 01:06:07,090
in this state?
896
01:06:08,676 --> 01:06:12,555
I would be in awe to ever
897
01:06:12,596 --> 01:06:14,306
approach him in the same way.
898
01:06:23,190 --> 01:06:24,441
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
899
01:06:24,483 --> 01:06:26,903
My body became
just like stone...
900
01:06:26,944 --> 01:06:29,530
and still I was
fully conscious,
901
01:06:29,572 --> 01:06:30,781
...and everything was Light.
902
01:06:35,578 --> 01:06:37,955
CHIDANANDA: And it was outof that consciousness,
903
01:06:37,996 --> 01:06:40,875
that he was pulling
these writings,
904
01:06:40,917 --> 01:06:44,002
these profound truths
and experiences.
905
01:06:48,215 --> 01:06:51,176
MATA: He constantlystressed to me,
906
01:06:51,218 --> 01:06:53,804
get my thoughts,
907
01:06:53,846 --> 01:06:57,349
understand what I mean.
908
01:06:57,391 --> 01:07:00,728
I can do much
more now to reach.
909
01:07:00,770 --> 01:07:02,354
To reach others with my pen.
910
01:07:04,273 --> 01:07:07,860
CHIDANANDA: The Autobiography
of a Yogi was the first memoir
911
01:07:07,902 --> 01:07:11,572
of a genuine
Indian holy man.
912
01:07:11,614 --> 01:07:16,034
SHANKAR: It was hispersonal feeling abouthis devotion to his gurus
913
01:07:16,076 --> 01:07:19,872
and what he really
received from them.
914
01:07:19,914 --> 01:07:22,792
But it's not all
that Yogananda wrote.
915
01:07:22,833 --> 01:07:27,630
Yogananda produced an
incredible literary corpus.
916
01:07:27,671 --> 01:07:31,801
MATA: Every morning,he would have us bringa typewriter and a table,
917
01:07:31,842 --> 01:07:34,303
and bring it into his study.
918
01:07:34,344 --> 01:07:37,514
GOLDBERG: He'd stillbe up at 1:00 or 2:00in the morning, writing.
919
01:07:37,556 --> 01:07:40,100
DAYA MATA: Night and day,he wrote or he dictated.
920
01:07:40,142 --> 01:07:42,937
And we would type
all day long.
921
01:07:42,979 --> 01:07:46,315
MRINALINI MATA: And he wouldbe totally, totally absorbed.
922
01:07:46,356 --> 01:07:48,150
Hours would go by.
923
01:07:48,191 --> 01:07:54,615
His whole consciousness
became absorbed
in finishing his writings.
924
01:07:54,657 --> 01:07:57,994
And it was that
sense of urgency,
925
01:07:58,035 --> 01:08:00,287
it was like an acceleration,
926
01:08:00,329 --> 01:08:05,584
an acceleration of our
discipline, of our training.
927
01:08:05,626 --> 01:08:08,838
CHIDANANDA: And not onlywas he writing,he was building temples,
928
01:08:08,879 --> 01:08:10,965
founding Brotherhood Colonies,
929
01:08:11,007 --> 01:08:13,968
and encouraging people
to live together
in spiritual communities.
930
01:08:26,605 --> 01:08:30,985
GOLDBERG: And thenin 1945, while he waswriting the autobiography,
931
01:08:31,027 --> 01:08:32,945
we set off
the first atomic bomb.
932
01:09:03,893 --> 01:09:04,852
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER:
Few people cried.
933
01:09:05,978 --> 01:09:07,145
Most people were silent.
934
01:09:09,606 --> 01:09:14,570
I remembered the line from
the Hindu scripture
of the Bhagavadgita,
935
01:09:14,611 --> 01:09:16,613
"Now I am become death,
936
01:09:16,655 --> 01:09:18,281
"the destroyer of worlds."
937
01:09:21,952 --> 01:09:25,163
About a hundred years ago,
Einstein gave us a framework
938
01:09:25,205 --> 01:09:27,374
that radically changed
modern physics,
939
01:09:27,416 --> 01:09:31,503
that put energy and matter
on some sort of
equivalent footing.
940
01:09:31,545 --> 01:09:34,090
We're going to have to expand
the language of physics
941
01:09:34,131 --> 01:09:36,466
to come to terms not only
with matter and energy,
942
01:09:36,508 --> 01:09:39,177
but matter, energy,
and maybe even
consciousness.
943
01:09:42,765 --> 01:09:47,519
NARRATOR: The human mindcan and must liberatewithin itself
944
01:09:47,561 --> 01:09:52,274
energies greater than those
within stones and metals.
945
01:09:52,315 --> 01:09:56,695
Lest the atomic giant,
newly unleashed,
946
01:09:56,737 --> 01:09:59,115
dawn on the world in
mindless destruction.
947
01:10:04,369 --> 01:10:06,496
CHOPRA: Modern science,as it is now,
948
01:10:06,538 --> 01:10:10,250
is based on what is called
the subject-object split.
949
01:10:10,292 --> 01:10:11,919
I am the subject
and there is the universe.
950
01:10:16,506 --> 01:10:19,301
Whereas spirituality
says that
951
01:10:19,342 --> 01:10:22,429
there's a consciousness
that includes the subject
952
01:10:22,471 --> 01:10:23,221
and the object.
953
01:10:26,016 --> 01:10:28,435
Consciousness gives
rise to everything,
including the brain.
954
01:10:32,314 --> 01:10:34,566
HARRISON: We've beenbrought up to think that
955
01:10:34,608 --> 01:10:38,654
the mind is this thing
that sits up here
somewhere in your brain.
956
01:10:38,695 --> 01:10:40,238
But really,
the mind is everywhere.
957
01:10:42,992 --> 01:10:44,701
NEWBERG: Some people haveargued that consciousness
958
01:10:44,743 --> 01:10:46,954
resides in every cell
of our body.
959
01:10:46,996 --> 01:10:49,123
The only way for us
to really understand
960
01:10:49,165 --> 01:10:51,249
the nature of consciousness
and what it is,
961
01:10:51,291 --> 01:10:55,253
is to explore it both
from the outside in
and from the inside out.
962
01:11:00,383 --> 01:11:05,055
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Delusion isthe belief that there'ssomething outside of you.
963
01:11:05,097 --> 01:11:08,517
But your happiness
is not based on any thing
outside of you.
964
01:11:10,019 --> 01:11:12,270
In the inside,
where the watcher
965
01:11:12,312 --> 01:11:14,940
is watching all
of the craziness,
966
01:11:14,982 --> 01:11:15,983
kind of just laughing.
967
01:11:17,193 --> 01:11:19,111
So look inside
for the watcher,
968
01:11:19,153 --> 01:11:20,278
and be connected
to the watcher.
969
01:11:22,114 --> 01:11:24,033
And then be awake.
970
01:11:28,286 --> 01:11:33,542
GOLDBERG: The Indianteachings that Yoganandarepresented were not escapes.
971
01:11:33,583 --> 01:11:37,254
They were methods of adapting
972
01:11:37,295 --> 01:11:39,965
to these upheavals
and these changes
973
01:11:40,007 --> 01:11:45,054
because they remind
people that we are
more than the personality
974
01:11:45,095 --> 01:11:48,098
and the roles that we play,
975
01:11:48,140 --> 01:11:49,850
and the body we inhabit.
976
01:11:52,561 --> 01:11:53,645
(MAN SPEAKING)
977
01:11:53,687 --> 01:11:55,272
When I am in the soul
978
01:11:55,313 --> 01:11:57,691
I know that...
979
01:11:57,733 --> 01:12:00,485
...nothing is important
on the earth.
980
01:12:00,527 --> 01:12:02,905
Nothing, nothing at all.
981
01:12:02,946 --> 01:12:04,948
Only Love is important.
982
01:12:08,660 --> 01:12:11,163
GOLDBERG: If we're goingto change those kindof circumstances
983
01:12:11,205 --> 01:12:13,832
so there's hope
for our survival,
984
01:12:13,874 --> 01:12:15,333
the change has to
come from inside out.
985
01:12:19,213 --> 01:12:21,715
NARRATOR: A man who hasreformed himself
986
01:12:21,757 --> 01:12:23,341
will reform thousands.
987
01:12:32,059 --> 01:12:36,688
CHIDANANDA: Yogananda sawthat if there wasn't someway to reach the masses,
988
01:12:36,730 --> 01:12:39,816
with this message
of experiencing
989
01:12:39,858 --> 01:12:42,402
the spirit within
every human being,
990
01:12:42,444 --> 01:12:46,740
the world would not
survive the transition
into the atomic age.
991
01:12:46,782 --> 01:12:48,658
They were leading
this foundation at that time
992
01:12:48,700 --> 01:12:51,287
to bring
the teachings current.
993
01:12:51,328 --> 01:12:55,124
So they can really create
a transformation on
a collective level
994
01:12:55,165 --> 01:12:57,334
in the world,
not just in the forest.
995
01:12:57,375 --> 01:13:01,255
That forest is here now.
This is bigger,
and is ever-increasing.
996
01:13:01,297 --> 01:13:02,881
If we don't practice
the teachings here,
997
01:13:02,923 --> 01:13:04,382
there will be no
forest left at all.
998
01:13:15,477 --> 01:13:17,646
GOLDBERG: The autobiographywas a doorway in,
999
01:13:17,687 --> 01:13:20,857
it was a table setter
for millions of people.
1000
01:13:20,899 --> 01:13:24,945
Whether they ended
up being practitioners
of Kriya Yoga or not,
1001
01:13:24,987 --> 01:13:28,740
Yogananda was a doorway
into whatever pathway
they found.
1002
01:13:32,661 --> 01:13:34,871
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
1003
01:13:34,913 --> 01:13:36,414
(OVERLAPPING VOICES)
1004
01:13:40,794 --> 01:13:42,338
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
1005
01:13:42,379 --> 01:13:43,839
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
1006
01:13:53,515 --> 01:13:56,810
MARC BENIOFF: On the wayout of the memorialservice for Steve,
1007
01:13:56,852 --> 01:14:01,815
they handed us a copy
of Yogananda's book.
1008
01:14:01,857 --> 01:14:06,320
Steve's last message to us
was, "Actualize yourself."
1009
01:14:06,362 --> 01:14:08,446
That was Yogananda's message.
1010
01:14:08,488 --> 01:14:10,657
He was constantly
encouraging you
1011
01:14:10,699 --> 01:14:12,368
to simultaneously
be able to think
of yourself
1012
01:14:12,409 --> 01:14:13,451
as this little blip
on the planet
1013
01:14:15,704 --> 01:14:17,998
but on the other hand,
you also had
infinite potentialities.
1014
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:19,457
You had
the eternal soul in you.
1015
01:14:21,126 --> 01:14:23,420
So, can you simultaneously
operate with that awareness
1016
01:14:23,461 --> 01:14:25,797
of recognizing,
in a humble way,
1017
01:14:25,839 --> 01:14:28,008
the limited bounds
of your human life,
1018
01:14:28,050 --> 01:14:29,259
and at the same time,
the infinite potentialities
1019
01:14:29,301 --> 01:14:30,302
of you as a soul.
1020
01:14:33,638 --> 01:14:35,473
We have a far too limited
1021
01:14:35,515 --> 01:14:37,809
sense of our capacity
as human beings
1022
01:14:37,851 --> 01:14:40,396
to overcome disease,
to overcome poverty.
1023
01:14:40,437 --> 01:14:41,771
And therefore,
to allow that power
1024
01:14:41,813 --> 01:14:43,357
to begin to transform
the world.
1025
01:14:48,570 --> 01:14:50,155
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
1026
01:14:55,244 --> 01:14:56,494
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
1027
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:14,096
CHIDANANDA:
When the Ambassadorof India
1028
01:15:14,137 --> 01:15:16,306
visited Los Angeles
for the first time,
1029
01:15:16,348 --> 01:15:19,976
how happy Yogananda was
that this representative
of free India,
1030
01:15:20,018 --> 01:15:23,105
liberated from
the colonial rule,
had come to Los Angeles.
1031
01:15:23,146 --> 01:15:24,940
And he was able to honor him.
1032
01:15:29,611 --> 01:15:32,364
A banquet was organized
to welcome the ambassador.
1033
01:15:32,406 --> 01:15:34,116
And Yogananda,
being one of
1034
01:15:34,157 --> 01:15:36,785
the most well-known
Indians in the community,
1035
01:15:36,826 --> 01:15:39,913
was invited to give one of
the key speeches that night.
1036
01:15:42,416 --> 01:15:44,751
MRINALINI MATA:
The night before,
1037
01:15:44,793 --> 01:15:47,712
we were walking down the hall,
he turned to me and said,
1038
01:15:47,754 --> 01:15:50,215
"Do you know,
it's just a matter of hours,
1039
01:15:50,257 --> 01:15:51,508
"and I will be gone."
1040
01:15:54,094 --> 01:15:56,721
SWAMI KRIYANANDA: When Mastergot up to speak, I was there.
1041
01:15:59,516 --> 01:16:02,852
He had always said,
"When I die, I want to die
1042
01:16:02,894 --> 01:16:05,563
"speaking of my America
and my India."
1043
01:16:08,233 --> 01:16:11,945
DAYA MATA:
"Free me then, O Lord,from the bondage of the body
1044
01:16:11,987 --> 01:16:15,365
"that I may show others
how they can free themselves."
1045
01:16:19,202 --> 01:16:21,121
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
1046
01:16:21,163 --> 01:16:25,542
...lotus, scenic beauty,
and sages, thy wide doors
are open,
1047
01:16:25,583 --> 01:16:29,546
welcoming God's true sons
through all the ages.
1048
01:16:29,587 --> 01:16:32,341
Where Ganges,
woods, Himalayan caves,
1049
01:16:32,382 --> 01:16:33,842
and men dream God,
1050
01:16:35,260 --> 01:16:39,181
I am hallowed,
my body touched that sod.
1051
01:16:41,891 --> 01:16:46,271
CHIDANANDA: He finishedsaying, "I am hallowed,my body touched that sod,"
1052
01:16:46,313 --> 01:16:48,148
and then,
he collapsed to the floor.
1053
01:17:01,495 --> 01:17:04,540
MATA: As I kneeledover his body,
1054
01:17:04,581 --> 01:17:07,625
tremendous force
entered this body.
1055
01:17:09,919 --> 01:17:14,257
With the message to my soul,
1056
01:17:14,299 --> 01:17:16,301
"This time you cannot
call him back."
1057
01:17:39,449 --> 01:17:44,037
CHIDANANDA:
In the yoga tradition,there is a sacred practice
1058
01:17:44,079 --> 01:17:47,040
of knowing when you
will leave your body.
1059
01:17:49,042 --> 01:17:52,546
And so consciousness moves
to a grander space.
1060
01:17:56,425 --> 01:17:58,676
The doctor said that
he had a heart attack.
1061
01:18:10,146 --> 01:18:13,775
NARRATOR: Watch the shoreof the universe,
1062
01:18:13,816 --> 01:18:15,902
but do not become
absorbed in it.
1063
01:18:18,614 --> 01:18:21,032
I behold life
and death like
1064
01:18:21,074 --> 01:18:23,452
the rise and fall
of waves on the sea
1065
01:18:27,539 --> 01:18:29,707
I am the ocean
of consciousness.
1066
01:18:38,174 --> 01:18:40,385
A guru can't be
a little old man
in a blanket.
1067
01:18:41,219 --> 01:18:42,220
Or a guy in robes.
1068
01:18:43,430 --> 01:18:45,223
It could look like that,
1069
01:18:45,265 --> 01:18:50,937
because guru-ness
might be living in
that body for a while,
1070
01:18:50,979 --> 01:18:55,442
and it interacts with you
because you have a karmic
tie with that being,
1071
01:18:55,484 --> 01:18:58,570
but that being,
if he's really a guru,
1072
01:18:58,612 --> 01:19:00,822
he's not at all identified
with being in that body.
1073
01:19:07,162 --> 01:19:09,747
Once I asked a saint in India,
I said, "Athimara..."
1074
01:19:09,789 --> 01:19:12,501
I said, "How can I
get closer to my guru?"
1075
01:19:12,542 --> 01:19:14,711
He looked at me
like I was crazy.
1076
01:19:14,752 --> 01:19:19,424
He said, "Your guru
is what's looking out
of your eyes right now."
1077
01:19:22,051 --> 01:19:23,428
So get with that for a while.
1078
01:21:15,331 --> 01:21:16,458
(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)
1079
01:21:16,499 --> 01:21:18,585
Everything is Brahma
1080
01:21:18,627 --> 01:21:20,796
Everything is Spirit
1081
01:21:20,837 --> 01:21:22,798
Everything is Light
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