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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:38,708 --> 00:00:43,170 NARRATOR: I was conscious in my mother's womb. 3 00:00:43,212 --> 00:00:46,925 Feeling the movements in her body. 4 00:00:46,967 --> 00:00:50,637 Aware of my own helpless state. 5 00:00:59,103 --> 00:01:01,481 This body bundle of bones is not I. 6 00:01:07,570 --> 00:01:12,157 Occasionally, the darkness of the womb would be dispelled 7 00:01:12,199 --> 00:01:14,076 and light would visit me. 8 00:01:17,705 --> 00:01:22,084 On one side I wanted to express myself as a human being, 9 00:01:22,126 --> 00:01:26,130 yet, on the other side, I didn't. 10 00:01:26,172 --> 00:01:28,550 Because I felt I was spirit. 11 00:01:34,722 --> 00:01:36,348 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 12 00:01:41,813 --> 00:01:45,316 I see behind the scenes. 13 00:01:45,358 --> 00:01:48,319 The visible man is a shadow. 14 00:01:50,780 --> 00:01:54,951 As soon as I change my consciousness, I see everything, 15 00:01:54,993 --> 00:01:57,537 just as if it were a motion picture. 16 00:02:09,632 --> 00:02:11,383 RAVI SHANKAR: I distinctly remember 17 00:02:11,425 --> 00:02:14,178 the excitement of meeting Swami Yogananda. 18 00:02:15,847 --> 00:02:17,640 He was straight from the heart. 19 00:02:19,225 --> 00:02:22,103 He looked strange, like a woman with long hair. 20 00:02:22,144 --> 00:02:24,814 But I remember his powerful eyes. 21 00:02:24,856 --> 00:02:26,774 He created such a stir. 22 00:02:28,818 --> 00:02:31,654 KRISHNA DAS: I remember the first time I heard Yogananda's voice. 23 00:02:31,696 --> 00:02:34,741 I got a record, I think, from SRF. 24 00:02:34,782 --> 00:02:38,536 And I put it on, and I didn't know what to expect. 25 00:02:38,578 --> 00:02:41,414 And then, this booming, powerful 26 00:02:41,455 --> 00:02:45,626 "I, Paramahansa Yogananda, am singing. 27 00:02:45,668 --> 00:02:47,962 "Sing with me." I went... (GROANS) 28 00:02:48,796 --> 00:02:50,090 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 29 00:02:50,131 --> 00:02:54,468 I, Paramahansa Yogananda, am praying. 30 00:02:54,510 --> 00:02:56,178 Pray with me. 31 00:02:58,890 --> 00:03:02,810 Bless me that with the awakening dawn... 32 00:03:02,852 --> 00:03:07,565 I may awaken all souls with my own... 33 00:03:07,607 --> 00:03:10,985 ...and bring them to Thee. 34 00:03:20,494 --> 00:03:22,329 He wasn't trying to sing prettily, 35 00:03:22,371 --> 00:03:24,498 wasn't trying to entertain people. 36 00:03:24,540 --> 00:03:27,460 He was singing, you know, to God. It was so powerful. 37 00:03:29,420 --> 00:03:32,090 HARRISON: While I was in India, I was with Ravi Shankar. 38 00:03:32,132 --> 00:03:35,217 He gave me Autobiography of a Yogi. 39 00:03:36,761 --> 00:03:38,596 Just looked at the cover, 40 00:03:38,638 --> 00:03:40,765 and he just zapped me with his eyes. 41 00:03:42,266 --> 00:03:44,727 I mean I can't imagine... If I hadn't read that, 42 00:03:44,769 --> 00:03:47,521 I probably wouldn't have a life. Really. 43 00:03:47,563 --> 00:03:49,356 Yeah, I probably would have kicked the bucket. 44 00:03:49,398 --> 00:03:52,819 Or I'd just be, you know, some horrible person 45 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,196 with a pointless life. 46 00:03:55,237 --> 00:03:59,033 It just gave meaning to life. 47 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:01,995 HITENDRA WADHWA: Steve Jobs apparently had only one book on his iPad. 48 00:04:02,036 --> 00:04:05,456 Lo and behold, that book turns out to be the Autobiography of a Yogi. 49 00:04:09,335 --> 00:04:11,504 (FEMALE INSTRUCTOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 50 00:04:17,218 --> 00:04:21,472 MAS VIDAL: Yoga, for many, has become something that you do with your body. 51 00:04:23,016 --> 00:04:26,936 But the yogis never taught that. 52 00:04:26,978 --> 00:04:29,271 The way that Yogananda taught yoga, 53 00:04:29,313 --> 00:04:32,150 was use the body, you have a body, 54 00:04:32,192 --> 00:04:34,819 but it's really about the mind. 55 00:04:34,861 --> 00:04:36,445 Expanding your consciousness. 56 00:04:37,613 --> 00:04:39,740 Who am I? Who you are? 57 00:04:39,782 --> 00:04:43,661 Why we came to this Earth as a human? 58 00:04:43,703 --> 00:04:46,080 LI MIAO TSENG: It's really very easy to get lost 59 00:04:46,122 --> 00:04:47,581 in the complexity of life. 60 00:04:50,710 --> 00:04:53,671 FRANCIS CLOONEY: We're conflicted beings as humans. 61 00:04:53,713 --> 00:04:55,882 One of the deepest things about us 62 00:04:55,923 --> 00:04:58,467 is that our lives don't make sense, except in the mystery. 63 00:05:01,762 --> 00:05:05,599 Yogananda provided us a vocabulary to talk about the human spirit 64 00:05:05,641 --> 00:05:08,144 that got away from dogma, and doctrine, and ritual. 65 00:05:14,901 --> 00:05:16,777 Whether it be a Hindu, Muslim, 66 00:05:16,819 --> 00:05:19,197 Christian, Jewish, whatever tradition you're part of, 67 00:05:19,239 --> 00:05:21,991 Yogananda charted a path inward 68 00:05:22,033 --> 00:05:23,243 that connected you with your own divinity. 69 00:05:37,464 --> 00:05:39,550 NARRATOR: Buried during the Dark Ages... 70 00:05:39,592 --> 00:05:42,428 Kriya Yoga was revived for modern man 71 00:05:42,469 --> 00:05:45,347 by the deathless yogi Mahavatar Babaji. 72 00:05:49,602 --> 00:05:52,396 Babaji instructed Lahiri Mahasaya 73 00:05:52,438 --> 00:05:55,733 to teach Kriya Yoga to others. 74 00:05:55,775 --> 00:06:00,029 The transmission of the ancient science from guru to disciple. 75 00:06:01,864 --> 00:06:04,909 Unknown to society in general, 76 00:06:04,951 --> 00:06:09,455 a great spiritual renaissance started in a remote corner of Banaras. 77 00:06:09,496 --> 00:06:11,373 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 78 00:06:23,303 --> 00:06:25,346 (BELLS RINGING) 79 00:06:27,181 --> 00:06:28,599 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 80 00:06:28,641 --> 00:06:32,478 As the fragrance of flowers cannot be suppressed, 81 00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:36,565 so devotees from every part of India began to seek 82 00:06:36,607 --> 00:06:39,777 the divine nectar of this liberated master. 83 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,330 Day after day, the guru initiated one or two devotees 84 00:06:50,371 --> 00:06:54,375 into Kriya Yoga, the science of meditation. 85 00:06:56,336 --> 00:06:58,587 Early in their married life, 86 00:06:58,629 --> 00:07:00,340 my parents became disciples. 87 00:07:02,883 --> 00:07:06,179 Lahiri Mahasaya predicted my birth, 88 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:07,888 and that through this body 89 00:07:07,930 --> 00:07:11,267 many shall receive the spiritual enlightenment of India. 90 00:07:13,477 --> 00:07:17,064 "The message of yoga will encircle the globe," he said. 91 00:07:17,106 --> 00:07:20,901 It will aid in establishing the brotherhood of man. 92 00:07:20,943 --> 00:07:24,905 But when I heard the word "guru," it frightened me. 93 00:07:24,947 --> 00:07:27,700 For I knew what that responsibility meant. 94 00:07:31,412 --> 00:07:34,415 VIDAL: His great burden is to be the representative 95 00:07:34,456 --> 00:07:36,376 of this 5,000-year-old tradition. 96 00:07:39,003 --> 00:07:42,173 FELICIA TOMASKO: This is a man with intuitive knowledge. 97 00:07:42,215 --> 00:07:45,176 Extraordinary yogic powers. 98 00:07:45,218 --> 00:07:48,470 And he could perceive events that were decades in front of him. 99 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:53,642 But his teachings caused controversy. 100 00:07:53,684 --> 00:07:55,644 SONI: He would be called into question, 101 00:07:55,686 --> 00:07:58,147 and everything he worked for would unravel. 102 00:07:58,189 --> 00:08:00,191 (INDISTINCT WHISPERINGS) 103 00:08:09,033 --> 00:08:10,743 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 104 00:08:18,834 --> 00:08:20,669 BROTHER VISHWANANDA: Every soul is on a journey. 105 00:08:20,711 --> 00:08:23,505 People are at different levels in that journey. 106 00:08:33,849 --> 00:08:35,435 I think we all believe 107 00:08:35,476 --> 00:08:36,518 that there's more to life 108 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:37,561 than what we experience every day. 109 00:08:42,358 --> 00:08:46,195 DEEPAK CHOPRA: Yogananda happens to be what I would call a spiritual prodigy. 110 00:08:46,987 --> 00:08:49,449 A spiritual genius. 111 00:08:49,490 --> 00:08:53,369 Which means had access to a domain 112 00:08:53,411 --> 00:08:55,996 of awareness that most people don't have access to. 113 00:08:57,331 --> 00:08:59,917 Like mathematical geniuses, 114 00:08:59,959 --> 00:09:03,379 he explored a much larger territory in the spiritual domain. 115 00:09:07,383 --> 00:09:12,721 NARRATOR: Sometimes, I used to lapse into the consciousness of my true spirit. 116 00:09:15,266 --> 00:09:18,560 Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, 117 00:09:18,602 --> 00:09:23,565 in which I had been a yogi amid the Himalayan snows. 118 00:09:23,607 --> 00:09:26,568 STEFANIE SYMAN: He also had visions of seeing his guru. 119 00:09:36,370 --> 00:09:38,247 VISHWANANDA: Throughout the ages, there have been 120 00:09:38,289 --> 00:09:41,000 mystics who come with special knowledge 121 00:09:41,041 --> 00:09:44,378 that helps us understand our place in the universe. 122 00:09:45,921 --> 00:09:49,049 Yogananda was born at the dawn of the atomic age, 123 00:09:49,091 --> 00:09:52,553 when modern physics would shatter our most basic beliefs 124 00:09:52,594 --> 00:09:54,888 about the nature of reality 125 00:09:54,930 --> 00:09:58,142 and pave the way for an ancient and hidden teaching 126 00:09:58,184 --> 00:09:59,852 to be received by many. 127 00:10:02,604 --> 00:10:07,360 MAN: Yogananda had been told since infancy by saints and seers, 128 00:10:07,401 --> 00:10:10,654 that he'd be taking these teachings to the West. 129 00:10:10,696 --> 00:10:13,199 But he thought, "How is this possible?" 130 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,825 You know, it was absurd, 131 00:10:14,867 --> 00:10:16,702 because he barely spoke any English. 132 00:10:30,966 --> 00:10:33,635 NARRATOR: One day, my mind went away from Ranchi. 133 00:10:35,137 --> 00:10:37,890 I went to the storeroom to meditate, 134 00:10:37,931 --> 00:10:39,933 and I fell into an ecstasy. 135 00:10:58,702 --> 00:11:00,662 America. 136 00:11:00,704 --> 00:11:02,664 Surely these people are Americans. 137 00:11:06,377 --> 00:11:09,671 It's scary to the mind. I think the first thing was, "Oh, my God." 138 00:11:12,341 --> 00:11:15,969 VISHWANANDA: Imagine in your own life, having a message so strong 139 00:11:16,011 --> 00:11:18,013 that it totally changes your life, in a moment. 140 00:11:23,352 --> 00:11:26,564 And at that time he'd been here about three years. 141 00:11:26,606 --> 00:11:28,023 Probably thought this was his life work. 142 00:11:30,943 --> 00:11:33,362 NARRATOR: I had founded a school following 143 00:11:33,404 --> 00:11:35,906 the educational ideals of the rishis 144 00:11:35,948 --> 00:11:39,952 whose forest ashrams had been the ancient seat of learning. 145 00:11:39,993 --> 00:11:43,163 Overcoming restlessness of the body and mind, 146 00:11:43,205 --> 00:11:46,917 my concentration techniques achieved astonishing results. 147 00:11:48,877 --> 00:11:50,879 He established a "How to Live" School, 148 00:11:50,921 --> 00:11:52,714 I wish we had "How to Live" Schools. 149 00:11:54,467 --> 00:11:55,884 You have to learn your grammar, you have 150 00:11:55,926 --> 00:11:57,344 to learn your math and your science. 151 00:11:58,804 --> 00:12:00,640 But you also have to learn how to live. 152 00:12:00,681 --> 00:12:03,434 FEMALE TEACHER: One, two, three, four, five. 153 00:12:03,476 --> 00:12:06,437 One, two, three, four, five. 154 00:12:06,479 --> 00:12:09,273 (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE) 155 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:10,691 Love conquers all. 156 00:12:10,732 --> 00:12:12,734 Love conquers all. Very good. 157 00:12:14,612 --> 00:12:16,738 MEHROTRA: He's in love with his country. 158 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:18,782 He is being respected by his community, 159 00:12:18,824 --> 00:12:20,409 he is seeing his vision manifest 160 00:12:20,451 --> 00:12:22,744 where children are learning the art and science of yoga. 161 00:12:24,371 --> 00:12:26,373 And then he's sitting there and all of a sudden, 162 00:12:26,415 --> 00:12:29,418 he becomes aware that he has to leave all of it. 163 00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:33,380 YOGANANDA: God is taking me away to America. 164 00:12:35,215 --> 00:12:37,926 SRI DAYA MATA: He never wanted to come to America. 165 00:12:37,968 --> 00:12:41,430 That was not part of his dream at all. 166 00:12:41,472 --> 00:12:44,808 "Let me just go to the Himalayas and just live in a cave there. 167 00:12:44,850 --> 00:12:47,645 "I can do good there. I can pray for people." 168 00:12:47,687 --> 00:12:50,147 But his teacher said, "No. 169 00:12:50,189 --> 00:12:53,359 "You must go to the West. Go to America." 170 00:12:56,362 --> 00:12:59,615 NARRATOR: Tears stood in my eyes as I cast a last look 171 00:12:59,657 --> 00:13:02,784 at the little boys, and the sunny acres of Ranchi. 172 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,499 I knew, henceforth, I would dwell in far lands. 173 00:13:25,474 --> 00:13:27,893 How alone I was here. 174 00:13:27,934 --> 00:13:30,979 Not a soul I knew. 175 00:13:31,021 --> 00:13:34,525 I had heard many stories about the materialistic West, 176 00:13:34,567 --> 00:13:36,818 a land very different from India. 177 00:13:39,154 --> 00:13:43,409 It was somewhat of a daunting experience, to go out on the streets. 178 00:13:43,450 --> 00:13:47,413 My strange dress prompted boyish mockery and catcalls. 179 00:13:47,454 --> 00:13:48,955 BOY: What's that? 180 00:13:48,997 --> 00:13:51,208 VIDAL: There were kids that were throwing stones at him, 181 00:13:51,250 --> 00:13:54,127 calling him names. 182 00:13:54,169 --> 00:13:58,549 VISHWANANDA: I think he was called a magician at one point, a snake charmer. 183 00:13:58,591 --> 00:14:03,887 BROTHER CHIDANANDA: In 1920, many Americans were still not used to having Jews here. 184 00:14:03,929 --> 00:14:07,641 And now comes a darker skinned swami 185 00:14:07,683 --> 00:14:09,851 in orange robes and a turban. 186 00:14:12,229 --> 00:14:14,940 NARRATOR: I noticed some hot dog signs. 187 00:14:14,981 --> 00:14:17,359 In imagination I saw all kinds of dogs 188 00:14:17,401 --> 00:14:18,736 going through the meat chopper. 189 00:14:19,528 --> 00:14:21,905 And I thought, "My Lord. 190 00:14:21,947 --> 00:14:24,866 "Why did you bring me to the land where people eat dogs?" 191 00:14:30,205 --> 00:14:31,998 BRAHMACHARI MARTIN: When Yogananda came to the United States, 192 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,628 it was after World War I. The world was a very different place. 193 00:14:35,669 --> 00:14:37,546 It was a very powerful time. 194 00:14:38,589 --> 00:14:40,841 There was this upsurge 195 00:14:40,882 --> 00:14:43,385 of freedom. 196 00:14:43,427 --> 00:14:47,306 Freedom of sexuality, freedom of expression. 197 00:14:47,347 --> 00:14:51,769 Boundaries of known reality were being shattered and penetrated. 198 00:14:53,604 --> 00:14:56,774 You had the Einsteinian revolution, 199 00:14:56,816 --> 00:14:59,943 sort of flowering into quantum physics. 200 00:14:59,985 --> 00:15:01,445 And it became clear 201 00:15:01,487 --> 00:15:04,030 that the world was not what it appeared to be. 202 00:15:07,284 --> 00:15:10,954 SONI: Western philosophers are talking about the death of God. 203 00:15:10,996 --> 00:15:13,999 And Yogananda says, it's not about the death of God, 204 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,709 it's about the reconceptualization of the divine. 205 00:15:17,711 --> 00:15:21,381 CHIDANANDA: It's significant that Yogananda's first lecture in America 206 00:15:21,423 --> 00:15:24,134 was called "The Science of Religion." 207 00:15:24,176 --> 00:15:28,764 Not Hinduism, because using religious terminology, 208 00:15:28,806 --> 00:15:34,060 in Western peoples' minds, would place his offerings in a box. 209 00:15:36,605 --> 00:15:39,024 But self-realization? 210 00:15:39,065 --> 00:15:43,487 Oh. Yoga? Oh, those are universal. 211 00:15:43,529 --> 00:15:44,655 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 212 00:15:44,697 --> 00:15:47,783 Spine and the brain are the altars of God. 213 00:15:47,825 --> 00:15:51,453 That's where the electricity of God flows down into the nervous system 214 00:15:51,495 --> 00:15:52,954 into the world. 215 00:15:52,996 --> 00:15:55,624 and the searchlights of your senses are turned outwards. 216 00:15:57,042 --> 00:15:59,586 But when you will reverse the searchlights, 217 00:15:59,628 --> 00:16:00,962 through Kriya Yoga, 218 00:16:01,004 --> 00:16:03,423 and be concentrated in the spine, 219 00:16:03,465 --> 00:16:04,966 you will behold the Maker. 220 00:16:06,176 --> 00:16:08,721 That's what Self-Realization teaches. 221 00:16:08,762 --> 00:16:10,430 The technique of meditation, 222 00:16:10,472 --> 00:16:13,934 recharging the body battery with cosmic energy. 223 00:16:13,975 --> 00:16:16,770 For it is not a creed or dogma, 224 00:16:16,812 --> 00:16:18,772 but a science... 225 00:16:18,814 --> 00:16:20,482 ...of the soul and spirit. 226 00:16:20,524 --> 00:16:24,570 How the soul descended from the cosmic consciousness... 227 00:16:24,611 --> 00:16:27,614 into the earth and the body and the senses... 228 00:16:27,656 --> 00:16:29,783 ...is the purpose of this work. 229 00:16:34,329 --> 00:16:38,291 VIDAL: Imagine hearing that God is in your spine. 230 00:16:38,333 --> 00:16:40,001 In 1920. 231 00:16:42,003 --> 00:16:44,047 It was radical. 232 00:16:44,089 --> 00:16:46,967 It was a bold explanation 233 00:16:47,008 --> 00:16:49,261 of where to go to experience God. 234 00:16:52,431 --> 00:16:54,516 MAISHA MOSES: For me, 235 00:16:54,558 --> 00:16:58,729 God is still a bit unfathomable. 236 00:17:01,481 --> 00:17:03,525 She's in everything. She's in everyone. 237 00:17:05,026 --> 00:17:07,487 If you call Him energy, that's fine. 238 00:17:10,574 --> 00:17:13,410 SONI: Yogananda thought of self-realization as a science. 239 00:17:13,452 --> 00:17:15,788 He thought of Kriya Yoga as a science. 240 00:17:15,829 --> 00:17:17,581 Religion has a lot of baggage, 241 00:17:17,623 --> 00:17:20,250 but a science means that it's part of a scientific process. 242 00:17:20,292 --> 00:17:22,502 It's empirical, you can test certain things. 243 00:17:22,544 --> 00:17:25,505 And your own spiritual practice and self-realization 244 00:17:25,547 --> 00:17:27,507 is that scientific process. 245 00:17:27,549 --> 00:17:31,177 An individual is sort of an organized packet of consciousness 246 00:17:31,219 --> 00:17:34,598 that is part of a bigger ocean of consciousness 247 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,977 in that when you are meditating and going deep within, 248 00:17:38,018 --> 00:17:40,020 such as in yoga, 249 00:17:40,061 --> 00:17:42,815 your inner consciousness is combining with that higher consciousness. 250 00:17:45,108 --> 00:17:47,569 CHIDANANDA: You couldn't have described to a Westerner 251 00:17:47,611 --> 00:17:50,948 what Yogananda was teaching prior to the twentieth century. 252 00:17:50,990 --> 00:17:53,074 There simply wasn't a vocabulary for it. 253 00:17:57,871 --> 00:17:59,832 The apparently solid body 254 00:17:59,873 --> 00:18:04,127 is made up of these whirling atoms, and protons, and electrons. 255 00:18:04,169 --> 00:18:06,964 And those are composed of energy. 256 00:18:07,006 --> 00:18:09,633 The basic substance of creation. 257 00:18:09,675 --> 00:18:13,094 NARRATOR: The body is potentially vast and omnipresent. 258 00:18:16,389 --> 00:18:17,516 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 259 00:18:17,557 --> 00:18:20,435 This earth is nothing but movies to me. 260 00:18:23,438 --> 00:18:27,067 Just like the beam of a motion picture. 261 00:18:27,108 --> 00:18:31,030 So is everything made of shadows and light. 262 00:18:31,071 --> 00:18:33,991 That's what we are. Light and shadows of the Lord. 263 00:18:34,033 --> 00:18:36,035 Nothing else than that. 264 00:18:36,952 --> 00:18:38,996 There's one purpose. 265 00:18:40,747 --> 00:18:42,457 To get to the beam. 266 00:18:49,214 --> 00:18:54,928 VIDAL: But the doors of perception don't often open with the intellect. 267 00:18:54,970 --> 00:18:57,639 Something very powerful has to happen 268 00:18:57,681 --> 00:18:59,808 to shake us out of our comfort zone. 269 00:19:08,567 --> 00:19:11,820 NARRATOR: It was in Bareilly on a midnight... 270 00:19:12,946 --> 00:19:15,240 As I slept beside Father, 271 00:19:15,281 --> 00:19:17,534 I was awakened by a peculiar flutter. 272 00:19:21,162 --> 00:19:23,206 CHIDANANDA: When he was about 11 years old, 273 00:19:23,248 --> 00:19:26,376 he and his father were in northern India. 274 00:19:26,418 --> 00:19:28,795 The family was temporarily separated, 275 00:19:28,837 --> 00:19:30,839 and his mother had gone to Calcutta 276 00:19:30,881 --> 00:19:33,216 to prepare for the wedding of the eldest brother. 277 00:19:34,676 --> 00:19:36,261 And unknown to them, 278 00:19:36,302 --> 00:19:38,638 she had contracted Asiatic cholera. 279 00:19:42,475 --> 00:19:47,272 SYMAN: He had a dream that night, that his mother came to him. 280 00:19:47,313 --> 00:19:50,650 NARRATOR: The flimsy curtains parted and I saw the beloved form of my mother. 281 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:54,362 "Rush to Calcutta, if you would see me." 282 00:19:57,074 --> 00:19:58,533 The wraith-like figure vanished. 283 00:19:59,659 --> 00:20:00,702 (NARRATOR GASPS) 284 00:20:00,744 --> 00:20:02,370 Mother is dying. 285 00:20:10,295 --> 00:20:14,174 I collapsed into an almost lifeless state. 286 00:20:18,137 --> 00:20:19,972 CHIDANANDA: A telegram arrived. 287 00:20:20,013 --> 00:20:22,223 She had died in a matter of hours. 288 00:20:30,983 --> 00:20:33,986 NARRATOR: What was the purpose of this? 289 00:20:44,579 --> 00:20:46,832 Her solacing black eyes 290 00:20:46,873 --> 00:20:48,792 had been my refuge 291 00:20:48,834 --> 00:20:51,044 in the trifling tragedies of childhood. 292 00:20:53,338 --> 00:20:55,465 WOMAN'S VOICE: Farewell my child. 293 00:20:55,507 --> 00:20:57,634 The cosmic mother will protect you. 294 00:21:02,639 --> 00:21:05,391 (ECHOING) It is I who have watched over thee, 295 00:21:05,433 --> 00:21:07,811 life after life, 296 00:21:07,853 --> 00:21:10,605 in the tenderness of many mothers. 297 00:21:13,942 --> 00:21:17,362 See in my gaze the two black eyes. 298 00:21:19,198 --> 00:21:22,367 The lost, beautiful eyes thou seek'st. 299 00:21:33,419 --> 00:21:35,380 NARRATOR: I used to dream in my childhood, 300 00:21:35,421 --> 00:21:37,382 a tiger used to break my leg at night. 301 00:21:38,299 --> 00:21:39,843 (GROWLING) 302 00:21:42,637 --> 00:21:44,890 Mother used to come running with a candle and say, 303 00:21:44,931 --> 00:21:46,933 "You are dreaming. 304 00:21:46,975 --> 00:21:49,102 "Where is it broken?" 305 00:21:49,144 --> 00:21:50,729 (CHUCKLES) And then I used to laugh. 306 00:21:52,522 --> 00:21:55,358 From that time on, I was watchful, 307 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,735 even in dreams, 308 00:21:56,776 --> 00:21:59,821 to separate the unreal from the real. 309 00:22:03,575 --> 00:22:06,119 VIDAL: Once he had cracked open the door, 310 00:22:06,161 --> 00:22:08,371 his world would never be the same. 311 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,667 But it would take time, and many tests, 312 00:22:12,709 --> 00:22:17,589 before he would fully awaken into this new reality. 313 00:22:17,630 --> 00:22:20,133 NARRATOR: Mercifully mother of the universe, 314 00:22:20,175 --> 00:22:22,761 teach me thyself through visions, 315 00:22:22,802 --> 00:22:25,346 or through a guru sent by thee. 316 00:22:34,355 --> 00:22:38,277 I hoped to find them in the Himalayan snows. 317 00:22:38,318 --> 00:22:41,863 The master whose face often appeared to me in visions. 318 00:22:45,992 --> 00:22:50,330 I gazed searchingly about me, on any excursion from home 319 00:22:50,371 --> 00:22:53,041 for the face of my destined guru. 320 00:23:00,632 --> 00:23:04,552 One day, I wiped my tear-swollen face, 321 00:23:04,594 --> 00:23:07,388 and set out for a distant marketplace in Banaras. 322 00:23:07,973 --> 00:23:09,390 (VENDORS SHOUTING) 323 00:23:13,019 --> 00:23:14,813 Something told me to look behind. 324 00:23:24,489 --> 00:23:26,407 I had seen him in dreams. 325 00:23:28,952 --> 00:23:31,746 The face was the one I had seen in a thousand visions. 326 00:23:34,707 --> 00:23:37,127 Holding a promise that I had not fully understood. 327 00:23:51,641 --> 00:23:54,769 I came to know him long before I met him in this life. 328 00:23:59,524 --> 00:24:01,026 It was him. 329 00:24:01,067 --> 00:24:02,902 It was my master. 330 00:24:09,117 --> 00:24:12,954 He said, "I have been waiting." 331 00:24:29,929 --> 00:24:34,351 MEHROTRA: A true guru is there to lead you to yourself. Not to himself. 332 00:24:36,936 --> 00:24:38,813 To what we are truly capable of, 333 00:24:38,855 --> 00:24:41,482 not just the limited aspect of us. 334 00:24:45,945 --> 00:24:49,908 VIDAL: The spiritual path is farthest from easy. 335 00:24:52,369 --> 00:24:55,538 It requires undoing aspects of ourselves. 336 00:24:59,418 --> 00:25:03,046 NARRATOR: My guru could not be bribed, even by love. 337 00:25:10,303 --> 00:25:15,641 The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge, except rudely. 338 00:25:18,311 --> 00:25:21,981 This flattening to the ego treatment, was hard to endure. 339 00:25:23,691 --> 00:25:26,903 I sometimes felt that, metaphorically, 340 00:25:26,945 --> 00:25:29,114 he was discovering and uprooting 341 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:31,324 every diseased tooth in my jaw. 342 00:25:38,123 --> 00:25:41,126 Many teachers will tell you to believe, 343 00:25:41,167 --> 00:25:43,920 and then put out your eyes of reason. 344 00:25:47,382 --> 00:25:51,511 My guru said, "I want you to keep your eyes of reason open." 345 00:25:54,013 --> 00:25:58,977 In addition, I will open in you, the eye of wisdom. 346 00:26:20,123 --> 00:26:22,041 Yoga for me is freedom. 347 00:26:28,673 --> 00:26:30,716 The state of needing nothing is yoga. 348 00:26:36,264 --> 00:26:39,600 VISHWANANDA: We become one with peace, we become one with joy, 349 00:26:39,642 --> 00:26:42,187 we become one with love. 350 00:26:42,228 --> 00:26:47,692 We realize that that is our true nature. 351 00:26:56,159 --> 00:26:59,538 NARRATOR: How tirelessly my master labored 352 00:26:59,579 --> 00:27:05,668 that the boy Mukunda be transformed into the monk Yogananda. 353 00:27:19,932 --> 00:27:23,061 Three happy years were spent in humble circumstances in Boston. 354 00:27:24,687 --> 00:27:28,649 I gave public lectures, taught classes, 355 00:27:28,691 --> 00:27:31,236 and addressed clubs, colleges, churches 356 00:27:31,277 --> 00:27:34,364 and groups of every denomination. 357 00:27:34,406 --> 00:27:36,908 CHIDANANDA: But it took Yogananda a few years 358 00:27:36,949 --> 00:27:39,702 to realize that he wasn't in the right place 359 00:27:39,744 --> 00:27:41,662 for this message to really take off. 360 00:27:48,961 --> 00:27:53,132 SONI: In 1925, Yogananda arrives in Los Angeles, 361 00:27:53,174 --> 00:27:55,635 and on the first night, according to the LA Times, 362 00:27:55,676 --> 00:27:58,971 over 6,000 people attend his talk. 363 00:27:59,013 --> 00:28:02,100 That's double the capacity of the auditorium. 364 00:28:02,141 --> 00:28:05,270 Los Angeles is this new frontier. It's a place of possibility, 365 00:28:05,311 --> 00:28:07,188 of a new beginning. 366 00:28:07,230 --> 00:28:10,816 Ideas of Asian spirituality have permeated the West Coast 367 00:28:10,858 --> 00:28:13,445 in a way that they haven't on the East Coast. 368 00:28:13,486 --> 00:28:16,448 People come to Los Angeles often looking for something. 369 00:28:16,489 --> 00:28:19,075 So there's this already mind of a seeker. 370 00:28:21,244 --> 00:28:24,205 SONI: Yogananda does a seven-night speaker series 371 00:28:24,247 --> 00:28:26,625 at the LA Philharmonic Auditorium. 372 00:28:26,666 --> 00:28:29,085 People go just to see the show. 373 00:28:29,127 --> 00:28:33,548 And because he's exotic and entertaining and a great speaker. 374 00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:35,508 And then others really stick around 375 00:28:35,550 --> 00:28:38,595 and end up finding that he has really powerful teachings 376 00:28:38,637 --> 00:28:40,513 and he's a very good vehicle for the message. 377 00:28:41,514 --> 00:28:44,684 He knew the power of initiative. 378 00:28:44,725 --> 00:28:47,770 He didn't wait for anybody to get this wisdom out. 379 00:28:47,812 --> 00:28:50,565 He sent out lessons via mail. 380 00:28:50,607 --> 00:28:54,026 Mail order at the time was completely brand new. 381 00:28:54,068 --> 00:28:57,697 It was like sending out an e-blast today. 382 00:28:57,738 --> 00:29:00,700 What Yogananda did that was profound for Americans 383 00:29:00,741 --> 00:29:03,744 was talk about how you can have a personal relationship with the divine. 384 00:29:07,957 --> 00:29:09,917 MAN'S VOICE: I was a totally frustrated man. 385 00:29:12,337 --> 00:29:14,297 I had thought money could give me happiness. 386 00:29:16,549 --> 00:29:18,759 But nothing seemed to satisfy me. 387 00:29:21,220 --> 00:29:23,848 I was skeptical, like everyone was. 388 00:29:26,434 --> 00:29:27,935 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 389 00:29:27,977 --> 00:29:30,480 Sit straight, shoulder blades together. 390 00:29:30,522 --> 00:29:32,357 Chin parallel to the ground. 391 00:29:32,398 --> 00:29:35,776 Concentrate on the point between the eyebrows. 392 00:29:35,818 --> 00:29:38,404 The center of thought and will... 393 00:29:38,446 --> 00:29:39,822 ...and concentration. 394 00:29:41,407 --> 00:29:44,035 And again and again say, "Reveal thyself"... 395 00:29:44,076 --> 00:29:47,913 ...as joy and wisdom and spiritual perception. 396 00:29:49,915 --> 00:29:52,502 Again and again say, "Reveal Thyself". 397 00:29:58,383 --> 00:30:01,511 GOLDBERG: James Lynn was a wealthy industrialist. 398 00:30:01,553 --> 00:30:05,181 And he went on to become a very close devotee 399 00:30:05,223 --> 00:30:11,563 and an important benefactor of Yogananda's work around the country. 400 00:30:11,604 --> 00:30:14,857 CHIDANANDA: Many who joined his classes stepped forward and wrote checks 401 00:30:14,899 --> 00:30:17,736 trying to keep Yogananda in LA. 402 00:30:17,777 --> 00:30:25,744 And he saw such enthusiasm, he thought this is the place to establish a center. 403 00:30:25,785 --> 00:30:29,664 NARRATOR: When I saw the large building on the crest of Mount Washington, 404 00:30:29,706 --> 00:30:32,667 I recognized it at once. 405 00:30:32,709 --> 00:30:34,460 MATA: As he saw, this is the place. 406 00:30:36,045 --> 00:30:38,798 CHIDANANDA: This became the headquarters of his work. 407 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:43,177 Yogananda called it the spiritual White House. 408 00:30:43,219 --> 00:30:45,888 And it was a place where he gave classes, 409 00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:48,224 he even had rooms available to rent, 410 00:30:48,266 --> 00:30:51,269 with the idea of starting a spiritual community. 411 00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:53,646 And the first event he held there, 412 00:30:53,688 --> 00:30:55,607 before the property was even purchased 413 00:30:55,648 --> 00:30:57,149 was an Easter sunrise service. 414 00:30:57,191 --> 00:30:58,234 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 415 00:30:58,276 --> 00:31:02,488 True Christianity has been lost and forgotten. 416 00:31:02,530 --> 00:31:06,867 And what the ancients taught in India has been lost and forgotten. 417 00:31:08,453 --> 00:31:13,750 Those ought to be revived as one highway to the infinite. 418 00:31:13,792 --> 00:31:17,712 GOLDBERG: One of the keys to Yogananda's popularity in America. 419 00:31:17,754 --> 00:31:21,340 Was his love and affection for Jesus. 420 00:31:21,382 --> 00:31:27,555 He placed Jesus on the altar with his lineage. And with Krishna. 421 00:31:27,597 --> 00:31:30,433 CLOONEY: He said that Jesus really was representing to us, 422 00:31:30,475 --> 00:31:33,645 "This is who you are this is your ability 423 00:31:33,686 --> 00:31:35,938 "to open yourself to the divine mystery in ways 424 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:38,316 "that you never thought were possible." 425 00:31:38,357 --> 00:31:42,528 GOLDBERG: Jesus is revered in India, people don't realize that. 426 00:31:42,570 --> 00:31:47,826 But he is held to be either an incarnation of God, 427 00:31:47,867 --> 00:31:50,035 or, at the very least, a supreme yogi. 428 00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:53,956 CLOONEY: The value of Yogananda's teaching 429 00:31:53,998 --> 00:31:55,583 was that he picked up on this angle 430 00:31:55,625 --> 00:31:58,878 that there is this universal opportunity 431 00:31:58,919 --> 00:32:00,672 to understand who we are. 432 00:32:02,173 --> 00:32:04,759 What is true of Jesus is also true of all of us. 433 00:32:07,094 --> 00:32:09,013 MARTIN: It's not about religion at all, 434 00:32:09,054 --> 00:32:11,015 it's about what's behind religion. 435 00:32:11,056 --> 00:32:14,811 Meditation. Meditate. That's what he said. 436 00:32:14,853 --> 00:32:15,936 Meditation is the catchword. 437 00:32:20,859 --> 00:32:22,985 SONI: Yoga really is a philosophical system. 438 00:32:24,236 --> 00:32:26,531 A lot of people go to yoga to look hot. 439 00:32:26,572 --> 00:32:28,908 It's not set up to give you flat abs, 440 00:32:28,949 --> 00:32:30,242 even though that's an nice byproduct. 441 00:32:30,284 --> 00:32:31,952 It's really set up to understand God. 442 00:32:37,834 --> 00:32:43,464 NARRATOR: Kriya Yoga is the science of God realization through meditation. 443 00:32:43,506 --> 00:32:46,718 VIDAL: Yogananda did teach Hatha Yoga 444 00:32:46,759 --> 00:32:51,389 as one way to prepare for meditation. 445 00:32:51,430 --> 00:32:54,975 CHIDANANDA: He also developed this system of energization exercises. 446 00:32:57,645 --> 00:32:58,979 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 447 00:32:59,021 --> 00:33:00,606 The tension exercises... 448 00:33:00,648 --> 00:33:03,484 ...charge the body with the life current from the universe. 449 00:33:03,526 --> 00:33:05,403 Energy... 450 00:33:05,444 --> 00:33:07,405 distributed evenly in the body... 451 00:33:07,446 --> 00:33:09,281 ...is what keeps the diseases from settling. 452 00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:12,785 You don't have to be afraid of germs. 453 00:33:12,827 --> 00:33:14,203 If your body's electrified... 454 00:33:14,245 --> 00:33:15,580 ...they'll be electrocuted. 455 00:33:18,499 --> 00:33:20,000 ANDREW NEWBERG: Everything you do affects your brain. 456 00:33:22,253 --> 00:33:24,964 By tensing the muscles, you're activating your frontal lobes. 457 00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:28,342 You lower the stress hormones in the brain, it lowers your blood pressure 458 00:33:28,384 --> 00:33:30,344 and your heart rate and it gets your mind 459 00:33:30,386 --> 00:33:31,679 prepared for doing whatever it is 460 00:33:31,721 --> 00:33:32,764 that you're about to do. 461 00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:37,727 CHIDANANDA: Kriya Yoga teaches in the spine 462 00:33:37,769 --> 00:33:41,272 are these instruments of higher perception 463 00:33:41,313 --> 00:33:43,441 that are normally dormant in most people. 464 00:33:47,612 --> 00:33:52,074 Through withdrawing that energy and directing it by concentration 465 00:33:52,116 --> 00:33:53,743 into the spine and brain. 466 00:33:53,785 --> 00:33:58,038 Yogananda said those instruments of divine perceptions awaken. 467 00:34:07,673 --> 00:34:10,676 The physical world is not the highest reality. 468 00:34:13,512 --> 00:34:15,222 NEWBERG: When we have a dream at night, it feels 469 00:34:15,264 --> 00:34:18,684 incredibly real while we're in the dream. 470 00:34:18,726 --> 00:34:22,438 And then we wake up and we look at the reality we're now in 471 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,189 and we say, "Oh, okay, that was just a dream." 472 00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:31,697 Well, when people have mystical experiences, they say 473 00:34:31,739 --> 00:34:33,908 "Well this is the ultimate reality, this feels more real." 474 00:34:37,036 --> 00:34:40,080 And all this other stuff, that's not really the real reality. 475 00:34:50,424 --> 00:34:55,346 NARRATOR: Feel the life currents ascending and descending in the spine. 476 00:34:57,139 --> 00:34:59,517 By mastery of the intelligent life 477 00:34:59,558 --> 00:35:02,186 currents in the central nervous system. 478 00:35:02,227 --> 00:35:05,023 The body and brain can be purified. 479 00:35:07,399 --> 00:35:09,902 Go up and down the spine. 480 00:35:09,944 --> 00:35:15,825 Feeling the centers and mentally chanting "om." 481 00:35:15,867 --> 00:35:19,787 WOMAN'S VOICE: Dear Guruji, I have absorbed so much. 482 00:35:19,829 --> 00:35:25,209 I will try to keep it all within me, and profit by it. 483 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,046 Self-realization has helped my career. 484 00:35:28,087 --> 00:35:30,631 It has helped me to think very little of me, 485 00:35:30,673 --> 00:35:33,801 and let the great spirit pass through me. 486 00:35:53,071 --> 00:35:54,154 NARRATOR: Dear Swami Dhirananda... 487 00:35:54,613 --> 00:35:56,156 (READING) 488 00:36:02,121 --> 00:36:05,499 Mount Washington needed someone to be at the helm. 489 00:36:05,541 --> 00:36:08,711 While Guruji traveled throughout the United States, 490 00:36:08,753 --> 00:36:10,337 lecturing, giving classes. 491 00:36:15,426 --> 00:36:17,762 He brought one of his most beloved friends. 492 00:36:17,803 --> 00:36:20,389 He was a very capable teacher. 493 00:36:20,431 --> 00:36:23,976 He was very well-liked. 494 00:36:24,018 --> 00:36:27,396 NARRATOR: I am powerless to tell how greatly he has helped me 495 00:36:27,438 --> 00:36:30,441 in carrying on my educational work in India and Boston. 496 00:36:32,276 --> 00:36:34,403 He successfully carried on the work 497 00:36:34,445 --> 00:36:38,866 at the Ranchi school during my absence from India. 498 00:36:38,908 --> 00:36:41,535 CHIDANANDA: This was his childhood friend from Calcutta. 499 00:36:43,746 --> 00:36:47,416 I think as boys, both of them felt that their families didn't understand 500 00:36:47,458 --> 00:36:49,085 their spiritual longings. 501 00:36:49,127 --> 00:36:51,129 In fact, Dhirananda said that it was 502 00:36:51,170 --> 00:36:53,089 impossible for him to even meditate 503 00:36:53,131 --> 00:36:54,506 at his family home. 504 00:36:57,384 --> 00:37:01,680 So Yogananda allowed him to hide out in his attic room 505 00:37:01,722 --> 00:37:04,892 and he would sneak food up to him after the meals. 506 00:37:14,318 --> 00:37:18,990 CHIDANANDA: The 1920s was a period of almost ceaseless travel for him. 507 00:37:19,031 --> 00:37:22,326 He was visiting all of the largest cities in the Unites States, 508 00:37:22,367 --> 00:37:24,120 where people were getting their first 509 00:37:24,162 --> 00:37:25,704 glimpse of this yoga philosophy. 510 00:37:27,372 --> 00:37:29,708 There is no, um, precursor for Yogananda. 511 00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:32,920 He has to do something completely new that no one has done before. 512 00:37:32,962 --> 00:37:35,464 There is no path. 513 00:37:35,506 --> 00:37:37,842 GOLDBERG: There were other gurus who came. 514 00:37:37,883 --> 00:37:42,680 Swami Vivekananda, whom Yogananda respected greatly, 515 00:37:42,721 --> 00:37:46,350 had been here and started the Vedanta Society in the 1890s. 516 00:37:47,476 --> 00:37:50,270 But he only stayed a few years. 517 00:37:50,312 --> 00:37:53,315 Yogananda was the first major guru 518 00:37:53,357 --> 00:37:58,696 to have a nationwide impact and really make America his home. 519 00:37:59,864 --> 00:38:01,032 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 520 00:38:01,073 --> 00:38:03,534 In America, everybody is busy. 521 00:38:03,575 --> 00:38:05,661 If you keep on running after too many hobbies, 522 00:38:05,703 --> 00:38:07,788 you won't have any time left for bliss. 523 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:22,220 VIDAL: Everything was covered in the lessons, 524 00:38:22,261 --> 00:38:24,722 from how to achieve success in our life. 525 00:38:24,763 --> 00:38:27,141 Magnetizing or attracting your soul mate. 526 00:38:27,183 --> 00:38:30,936 Creating abundance, how to create harmony with others, 527 00:38:30,978 --> 00:38:32,980 how to find happiness. 528 00:38:34,565 --> 00:38:38,277 You people do not sleep correctly. 529 00:38:38,318 --> 00:38:42,698 You subconsciously worry about unpaid bills. 530 00:38:42,740 --> 00:38:46,326 And allow your sleep to be disturbed 531 00:38:46,368 --> 00:38:49,121 by the mental movies of dreams. 532 00:38:50,414 --> 00:38:54,418 By closing the eyes, and inner relaxation 533 00:38:54,459 --> 00:38:58,964 I can remain asleep several nights. 534 00:38:59,006 --> 00:39:03,219 And by opening the eyes and recharging the body, 535 00:39:03,261 --> 00:39:05,304 I can keep awake several days. 536 00:39:08,557 --> 00:39:11,852 CHIDANANDA: Willpower is really one of the absolute necessities 537 00:39:11,894 --> 00:39:13,771 for spiritual progress. 538 00:39:13,812 --> 00:39:16,565 Yogananda defined willpower this way, he said, 539 00:39:16,607 --> 00:39:19,902 "Will is that which changes thought into energy." 540 00:39:25,532 --> 00:39:26,992 "He asks the six men to line up 541 00:39:27,034 --> 00:39:28,827 "with their hand on each other's back 542 00:39:28,869 --> 00:39:31,997 "making a line across the platform. 543 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,294 "Swamiji said, 'The first one, put your hands on my stomach.' 544 00:39:36,335 --> 00:39:38,378 "With just a tiny straightening of his body 545 00:39:38,420 --> 00:39:40,547 "and a quick flick of his stomach, 546 00:39:40,589 --> 00:39:44,302 "Swamiji sent the six men catapulting across the stage." 547 00:39:44,343 --> 00:39:46,095 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 548 00:39:46,137 --> 00:39:49,098 What's the key of success? Concentration power. 549 00:39:50,682 --> 00:39:54,770 You meditate to achieve the concentration powers. 550 00:39:57,189 --> 00:40:01,110 VIDAL: He would control his heart and stop the pulse. 551 00:40:01,152 --> 00:40:04,029 And the doctors would rush, check his pulse, 552 00:40:04,071 --> 00:40:06,324 he's dying, he doesn't have a pulse. 553 00:40:06,365 --> 00:40:09,327 And then he would bring himself back to life. 554 00:40:11,578 --> 00:40:15,291 CHOUDHURY: Every human being in the world has a supernatural power. 555 00:40:15,333 --> 00:40:17,293 But having doesn't mean anything 556 00:40:17,335 --> 00:40:20,129 if you don't know how to use it. 557 00:40:20,171 --> 00:40:24,091 MALE ANNOUNCER: Yoga combines the physical, mental and spiritual forces. 558 00:40:24,133 --> 00:40:26,510 Bikram must be in complete control, 559 00:40:26,551 --> 00:40:28,387 or he's in danger of being impaled. 560 00:40:28,428 --> 00:40:29,429 Here he goes. 561 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,478 He did it! And Yogi Bikram is all right. 562 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,357 CHOUDHURY: But before you use it, you have to realize it. 563 00:40:39,398 --> 00:40:42,860 That's why Yogananda called it self-realization. 564 00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:44,987 You have to realize that power. 565 00:40:45,029 --> 00:40:47,865 Supernatural, cosmic, physical, mental, spiritual power. 566 00:40:50,326 --> 00:40:52,703 NARRATOR: Don't take my word for anything. 567 00:40:52,744 --> 00:40:56,999 Apply these techniques, and find out for yourselves. 568 00:40:57,041 --> 00:41:00,085 MARTIN: Here is a small, brown, mystic, 569 00:41:00,127 --> 00:41:02,213 from a nation that very few Americans 570 00:41:02,254 --> 00:41:04,131 had ever been to, much less read about. 571 00:41:04,173 --> 00:41:07,176 And he is here delivering his message with such force 572 00:41:07,218 --> 00:41:09,720 through personal transmission to people who came to see him. 573 00:41:12,097 --> 00:41:16,852 NARRATOR: Most important is to create a church within yourself. 574 00:41:16,894 --> 00:41:20,356 Where you are the minister in the temple of your own soul. 575 00:41:21,690 --> 00:41:24,026 When somebody is in a deep meditation, 576 00:41:24,068 --> 00:41:25,361 there are changes in the brain. 577 00:41:25,403 --> 00:41:27,071 We've seen changes in the brain scans 578 00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:28,197 of the different parts of the brain 579 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,281 that become more active. 580 00:41:30,741 --> 00:41:33,035 What you're seeing during a meditation practice 581 00:41:33,077 --> 00:41:35,287 is a very substantial decrease of activity 582 00:41:35,329 --> 00:41:37,081 in the part of the brain which normally 583 00:41:37,122 --> 00:41:38,999 helps us to create a sense of ourself 584 00:41:39,041 --> 00:41:42,294 and a sense of our orientation in space and time. 585 00:41:42,336 --> 00:41:46,631 As you progressively block the activity in that area, 586 00:41:46,673 --> 00:41:50,677 then you block your ability to establish your sense of self 587 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,430 as distinguished from the rest of the world. 588 00:41:52,471 --> 00:41:55,307 And you begin to feel that sense of deep connectedness or oneness 589 00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:56,600 with everything in the world. 590 00:41:58,269 --> 00:42:00,645 GOEL: I'm a physicist and a physician. 591 00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:02,981 I spent years between the Harvard physics department 592 00:42:03,023 --> 00:42:04,191 and Harvard Medical School. 593 00:42:04,233 --> 00:42:05,984 Going back and forth across the Charles River, 594 00:42:06,026 --> 00:42:07,361 but they don't talk to each other. 595 00:42:10,822 --> 00:42:14,410 As a child, having been exposed to things like Vedic philosophy 596 00:42:14,452 --> 00:42:16,536 growing up in rural Mississippi, 597 00:42:16,578 --> 00:42:19,706 I became inspired by this deep belief 598 00:42:19,748 --> 00:42:22,000 that there's an underlying unity in nature. 599 00:42:22,042 --> 00:42:24,586 By which these different fields could come together. 600 00:42:24,628 --> 00:42:27,339 So that led me to want to combine 601 00:42:27,381 --> 00:42:28,924 these two worlds of physics and biomedicine. 602 00:42:32,303 --> 00:42:35,389 Physics, our physics of the last century 603 00:42:35,431 --> 00:42:36,932 has not come to terms with life, 604 00:42:36,974 --> 00:42:40,727 living systems and things like consciousness. 605 00:42:40,769 --> 00:42:46,733 The writings of Yogananda are very appealing to a scientific appetite. 606 00:42:46,775 --> 00:42:49,569 He was committed to bringing together 607 00:42:50,695 --> 00:42:53,573 the technology and the material efficiency 608 00:42:53,615 --> 00:42:55,659 and the scientific understanding of the West 609 00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:59,079 with the ancient spiritual wisdom of the East. 610 00:42:59,121 --> 00:43:03,334 And creating a unified framework and an integrated approach 611 00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:07,129 to living life on this planet. 612 00:43:19,766 --> 00:43:21,726 ROBERT LOVE: In Washington, something remarkable happened. 613 00:43:23,979 --> 00:43:26,106 Yogananda drew the largest audiences 614 00:43:26,148 --> 00:43:28,526 a public speaker had drawn in the city. 615 00:43:28,567 --> 00:43:30,944 Congressmen, senators, judges, 616 00:43:30,986 --> 00:43:34,781 and he was even invited to the White House by President Coolidge. 617 00:43:34,823 --> 00:43:37,701 But Yogananda came in for a rude awakening when he was in Washington, 618 00:43:37,742 --> 00:43:40,412 which is really part of the American South. 619 00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:44,041 NARRATOR: In the national capital, I was told 620 00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,251 that white people only would be permitted 621 00:43:46,293 --> 00:43:47,627 to attend the classes. 622 00:43:48,587 --> 00:43:50,381 This surprised me very much. 623 00:43:51,423 --> 00:43:53,384 I defied this. 624 00:43:53,425 --> 00:43:57,637 And founded a Afro-American Yogoda center to teach my negro brethren. 625 00:44:04,186 --> 00:44:08,440 Cosmic delusion is always snaring us through our ignorance. 626 00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:14,946 LOVE: The civil rights movement was still decades away, 627 00:44:14,988 --> 00:44:16,740 and it was inspired, in fact, by 628 00:44:16,781 --> 00:44:19,159 a revolution that was fomenting in India. 629 00:44:22,246 --> 00:44:24,998 CHIDANANDA: Many people don't realize that Gandhi was a yogi, 630 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,252 and he was putting yoga principles such as non-violence 631 00:44:28,293 --> 00:44:31,713 into action on a mass scale. 632 00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:34,758 SYMAN: Yogananda himself was a very open and vocal supporter of Gandhi 633 00:44:34,799 --> 00:44:36,760 and lectured at Harvard about him and his movement. 634 00:44:40,013 --> 00:44:42,433 LOVE: For this, he was put on a government watch list 635 00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:45,185 and kept under surveillance. 636 00:44:45,227 --> 00:44:48,146 SONI: Anyone affiliated with India, and someone specifically affiliated 637 00:44:48,188 --> 00:44:50,899 with Mahatma Gandhi would be a person of interest, 638 00:44:50,941 --> 00:44:52,984 for the American government. 639 00:44:53,026 --> 00:44:56,821 Why are these people drawn to this heathen teacher? 640 00:44:56,863 --> 00:45:00,325 Oh, what is he doing behind closed doors? 641 00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:03,703 Are they trying to overthrow our government too? 642 00:45:05,664 --> 00:45:06,998 LOVE: There was literally 643 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,709 a war against yoga being waged in the media. 644 00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:20,845 GOLDBERG: A huge scandal erupted when 645 00:45:20,887 --> 00:45:25,267 Swami Dhirananda, Yogananda's right-hand man, 646 00:45:25,309 --> 00:45:28,728 was discovered giving private lessons to a married woman. 647 00:45:30,188 --> 00:45:32,023 And her husband... 648 00:45:32,065 --> 00:45:36,736 ...found out about it, stormed Mount Washington, and a brawl erupted. 649 00:45:39,573 --> 00:45:42,826 There were crazy tracts being written, 650 00:45:42,867 --> 00:45:46,330 rumors, all kinds of allegations, 651 00:45:46,371 --> 00:45:47,914 not just about Yogananda, 652 00:45:47,956 --> 00:45:50,917 but some of the other swamis and yoga teachers 653 00:45:50,959 --> 00:45:56,047 that this was a love cult and they were corrupting the women of America. 654 00:45:57,924 --> 00:46:00,093 SONI: Yogananda, as a yogi, would often talk 655 00:46:00,135 --> 00:46:02,262 about mastery over one's sexuality, 656 00:46:02,304 --> 00:46:05,307 over one's urges. Self-discipline. 657 00:46:05,349 --> 00:46:08,768 But oftentimes that was misinterpreted to mean something scandalous. 658 00:46:11,896 --> 00:46:14,816 LOVE: You had a kind of paranoia on the part of 659 00:46:14,858 --> 00:46:17,277 the husbands and law enforcement officials, 660 00:46:17,319 --> 00:46:19,363 that, you know, we couldn't trust our women 661 00:46:19,404 --> 00:46:22,533 with these dark-skinned foreigners. 662 00:46:22,574 --> 00:46:25,369 SYMAN: You can read between the lines here what the problem really is. 663 00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:28,246 I mean this was a period where miscegenation laws, you know, 664 00:46:28,288 --> 00:46:30,790 you were forbidden in America, if you were white, 665 00:46:30,832 --> 00:46:34,252 to marry a brown-skinned man or woman. 666 00:46:34,294 --> 00:46:36,755 So, I mean, it was illegal to mix the races at that point. 667 00:46:37,715 --> 00:46:39,174 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 668 00:46:39,216 --> 00:46:40,884 This marriage is symbolical... 669 00:46:40,925 --> 00:46:43,094 of breaking down the barriers... 670 00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:46,306 of the brown Caucasian of India... 671 00:46:46,348 --> 00:46:49,059 ...and the white Caucasian of America. 672 00:46:49,643 --> 00:46:50,644 Om. 673 00:46:51,353 --> 00:46:52,396 Amen 674 00:46:53,313 --> 00:46:54,314 Om. 675 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,738 SYMAN: On the one hand, open-minded Americans 676 00:47:00,779 --> 00:47:03,114 revered him, but his unorthodox views 677 00:47:03,156 --> 00:47:06,117 really raised the ire of more conservative Americans. 678 00:47:07,703 --> 00:47:10,205 By the time he went into the Deep South, 679 00:47:10,247 --> 00:47:11,831 it really reached a fever pitch. 680 00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:19,757 LOVE: "Swami was ordered to leave Miami for his own safety. 681 00:47:19,798 --> 00:47:21,841 "The husbands of more than 200 Miami women 682 00:47:21,883 --> 00:47:24,261 "were preparing to, 'get the Hindu.'" 683 00:47:25,929 --> 00:47:27,931 SYMAN: His supporters swarmed City Hall, 684 00:47:27,972 --> 00:47:30,434 and during the hearing, Police Chief Quigg 685 00:47:30,475 --> 00:47:32,603 claims that Yogananda tried to hypnotize him. 686 00:47:43,029 --> 00:47:45,449 SONI: Yogananda's no longer being invited 687 00:47:45,490 --> 00:47:47,284 to receive the keys to different cities. 688 00:47:48,452 --> 00:47:50,495 He's no longer being invited to speak 689 00:47:50,537 --> 00:47:52,080 to different religious congregations. 690 00:47:54,165 --> 00:47:56,960 NARRATOR: I am going through the severest trial of my life. 691 00:47:59,588 --> 00:48:02,882 Judge for yourself the lying capacity of the newspapers. 692 00:48:07,929 --> 00:48:11,809 CHIDANANDA: Back in Los Angeles, the district attorney eventually cleared Yogananda, 693 00:48:11,850 --> 00:48:14,436 and Mount Washington of all wrong-doing. 694 00:48:14,478 --> 00:48:15,895 But the damage had already been done. 695 00:48:22,068 --> 00:48:26,490 NARRATOR: The fruits of a lifetime of service to mankind 696 00:48:26,531 --> 00:48:31,620 reduced to ashes by the soulless efforts of yellow journalism. 697 00:48:37,584 --> 00:48:40,504 CLOONEY: All these incidents culminated in a falling out 698 00:48:40,545 --> 00:48:42,464 between Yogananda and Dhirananda. 699 00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:47,093 Dhirananda left, 700 00:48:47,135 --> 00:48:50,848 and started another organization not far from Mount Washington. 701 00:48:55,477 --> 00:48:57,604 LOVE: Many of the students went with Dhirananda 702 00:48:57,646 --> 00:48:59,314 because Yogananda had been busy 703 00:48:59,356 --> 00:49:00,940 touring the country for the last year. 704 00:49:16,540 --> 00:49:19,250 CHIDANANDA: The final heartbreak came a couple of years later, 705 00:49:19,292 --> 00:49:22,504 when Dhirananda left the Swami Order altogether. 706 00:49:22,546 --> 00:49:24,798 And married one of his Los Angeles students. 707 00:49:26,675 --> 00:49:28,677 Then he sued Yogananda 708 00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,762 for his share of the work they had done together. 709 00:49:42,482 --> 00:49:45,068 NARRATOR: With a heavy heart, I'm starting for Mexico. 710 00:49:46,653 --> 00:49:48,446 Cutting loose from everything, 711 00:49:48,488 --> 00:49:51,991 that I may consecrate myself to God entirely. 712 00:50:05,672 --> 00:50:08,216 Divine Mother, 713 00:50:08,258 --> 00:50:13,805 free me, let me go back to India, to serve you there, not here. 714 00:50:13,847 --> 00:50:18,309 There, there is bitterness and heartache and frustration. 715 00:50:18,351 --> 00:50:20,437 And no one to listen to your message. 716 00:50:32,490 --> 00:50:36,286 VISHWANANDA: In Yogananda's darkest hours, there's only one place that he went. 717 00:50:38,705 --> 00:50:39,831 He always went within. 718 00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:49,549 We call it God, place of stillness. 719 00:51:26,252 --> 00:51:28,171 NARRATOR: Many times I have tried to walk away 720 00:51:28,212 --> 00:51:30,089 from these organizational responsibilities. 721 00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:35,971 Every time, Divine Mother comes and takes me by the ear 722 00:51:36,013 --> 00:51:37,848 and says, "Come back." 723 00:51:41,267 --> 00:51:43,687 He said, "When I received that answer, I wept. 724 00:51:45,897 --> 00:51:47,190 "And I knew I had to go back. 725 00:51:48,650 --> 00:51:50,735 "I knew this is what God wanted from me." 726 00:51:55,532 --> 00:51:57,951 NARRATOR: Walking away under the guise of renunciation, 727 00:51:57,993 --> 00:52:00,328 all non-attachment is the easy part. 728 00:52:03,414 --> 00:52:06,001 It shows more spiritual fiber to live 729 00:52:06,043 --> 00:52:08,670 a godly life in the jungle of civilization. 730 00:52:11,589 --> 00:52:12,632 I love all. 731 00:52:14,342 --> 00:52:17,345 Even those who avow themselves my enemies. 732 00:52:18,930 --> 00:52:22,141 For I see thee in every being. 733 00:52:30,483 --> 00:52:34,445 I will rebuild this organization from scratch. 734 00:52:34,487 --> 00:52:38,491 Just as I did when I arrived from India in 1920. 735 00:52:41,244 --> 00:52:43,538 MATA: With that renewed faith, 736 00:52:43,580 --> 00:52:44,873 and the determination 737 00:52:44,915 --> 00:52:46,124 that he would not give up 738 00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:48,877 even though he was sorely 739 00:52:48,919 --> 00:52:50,921 tried and wanted to leave, 740 00:52:50,962 --> 00:52:53,590 he began to draw disciples. 741 00:52:54,883 --> 00:52:56,593 One of them was me. 742 00:52:59,387 --> 00:53:03,975 I came in 1931. Many other young people came. 743 00:53:04,017 --> 00:53:05,309 There were older people here, 744 00:53:05,351 --> 00:53:07,062 there was all ages living here. 745 00:53:08,813 --> 00:53:11,566 LOVE: Yogananda had consistently drawn his devotees 746 00:53:11,608 --> 00:53:13,359 from all walks of life. 747 00:53:13,401 --> 00:53:18,197 Prominent businessmen, judges, lawyers, even hardened journalists. 748 00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,200 But by the early 1930s, something very different was beginning. 749 00:53:22,577 --> 00:53:24,955 A small, core group of devotees 750 00:53:24,996 --> 00:53:27,165 came to Yogananda and asked to be accepted into 751 00:53:27,206 --> 00:53:30,919 this monastic path of complete renunciation. 752 00:53:30,961 --> 00:53:34,297 To completely devote their whole lives to following his teachings, 753 00:53:34,338 --> 00:53:38,009 and seeking God through this path of Kriya Yoga meditation. 754 00:53:41,638 --> 00:53:45,183 James Lynn, the wealthy businessman, was one of them. 755 00:53:45,224 --> 00:53:47,936 And he'd go on to become a highly advanced yogi, 756 00:53:47,978 --> 00:53:50,229 and take monastic vows like the others. 757 00:53:54,151 --> 00:53:56,153 And so through Yogananda, 758 00:53:56,194 --> 00:53:58,321 this ancient monastic swami order 759 00:53:58,362 --> 00:54:00,115 from India took root in America. 760 00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,244 MATA: Now began the training. 761 00:54:05,286 --> 00:54:09,166 I knew nothing about renunciation. 762 00:54:09,207 --> 00:54:13,586 CHIDANANDA: The new monastics took strict vows, like Yogananda himself, 763 00:54:13,628 --> 00:54:18,008 of simplicity, celibacy, obedience, and loyalty. 764 00:54:20,510 --> 00:54:25,056 Yogananda's lay students faced other challenges. 765 00:54:25,098 --> 00:54:28,518 HERB JEFFRIES: I'd been there about six or seven weeks, and I said 766 00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:32,147 "Guruji, all my life, I heard thou canst not, 767 00:54:32,189 --> 00:54:35,108 "thou shalt not, thou must not. 768 00:54:35,150 --> 00:54:37,986 "These are the rules of the religious teachings that I've heard 769 00:54:38,028 --> 00:54:39,070 "around my relatives." 770 00:54:41,614 --> 00:54:44,909 "What I want to know from you is, what canst thou?" 771 00:54:46,036 --> 00:54:48,454 He said "Well, do you smoke?" 772 00:54:48,496 --> 00:54:50,832 And I said, "Yes." He said, "You may continue." 773 00:54:50,874 --> 00:54:52,917 "Do you drink?" 774 00:54:52,959 --> 00:54:55,837 "Alcohol?" I said, "Yes." He said, "You may continue." 775 00:54:57,338 --> 00:54:58,923 "Do you 776 00:54:58,965 --> 00:55:02,426 "enjoy the opposite sex promiscuously?" 777 00:55:04,095 --> 00:55:06,223 "Yes." "Well, you may continue." 778 00:55:06,973 --> 00:55:08,183 I said, "Wait a minute. 779 00:55:08,225 --> 00:55:09,433 "You mean that I can 780 00:55:09,475 --> 00:55:11,769 "come up on this hill here, 781 00:55:11,811 --> 00:55:13,271 "in this good place with all of these 782 00:55:13,312 --> 00:55:15,023 "wonderful people, your disciples 783 00:55:15,065 --> 00:55:17,067 "and the devotees, and the brothers up here, 784 00:55:17,108 --> 00:55:19,277 "and study these teachings, 785 00:55:19,318 --> 00:55:20,987 "and I can go back down there 786 00:55:21,029 --> 00:55:22,780 "and do all these things?" 787 00:55:22,822 --> 00:55:24,448 "Absolutely." 788 00:55:24,490 --> 00:55:26,701 "But I will not promise you that as you 789 00:55:26,743 --> 00:55:29,370 "continue to study these teachings, 790 00:55:29,412 --> 00:55:31,330 "that the desire to do these things 791 00:55:31,372 --> 00:55:32,331 "will not fall away from you." 792 00:55:35,626 --> 00:55:39,964 NARRATOR: Repeated performance of inaction creates a mental blueprint. 793 00:55:40,006 --> 00:55:41,883 Causing the formation of subtle, 794 00:55:41,925 --> 00:55:44,010 electrical pathways in the brain. 795 00:55:44,052 --> 00:55:46,387 Somewhat like the grooves in a phonograph record. 796 00:55:47,555 --> 00:55:50,183 Your life follows the grooves 797 00:55:50,225 --> 00:55:52,351 that you yourself have created in the brain. 798 00:55:55,272 --> 00:55:59,317 NEWBERG: It appears that Yogananda was talking about neuroplasticity 799 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,321 almost 50 years before Western doctors took an interest in it. 800 00:56:03,362 --> 00:56:05,823 He said that regular Kriya practice 801 00:56:05,865 --> 00:56:10,745 could rewire your brain and help eliminate unwanted habits. 802 00:56:10,787 --> 00:56:13,456 HARRISON: The Autobiography of a Yogi is the book 803 00:56:13,497 --> 00:56:16,709 that I keep stacks of around the house. 804 00:56:16,751 --> 00:56:21,214 And I give it out constantly, you know, to people. 805 00:56:21,256 --> 00:56:23,382 You know, like when people need regrooving. 806 00:56:25,009 --> 00:56:26,010 Read this. 807 00:56:28,679 --> 00:56:30,265 BROTHER ANANDAMOY: We are not talking about suppression, 808 00:56:30,307 --> 00:56:31,515 we are talking about transmutation. 809 00:56:32,934 --> 00:56:35,312 Rechanneling, that's the whole science of yoga, 810 00:56:35,353 --> 00:56:37,939 rechanneling your energy. 811 00:56:37,981 --> 00:56:40,108 Creating new patterns of thinking, 812 00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:42,068 new patterns of the emotional life. 813 00:56:45,238 --> 00:56:48,783 SISTER PARVATI: When he looked at you penetratingly, he was changing you. 814 00:56:48,825 --> 00:56:50,327 He said, when he looked at you 815 00:56:50,368 --> 00:56:52,787 he was changing your brain cells. 816 00:56:53,579 --> 00:56:55,206 And he did. 817 00:56:58,209 --> 00:57:01,338 LEO COCKS: He started going into my inner thoughts and feelings, 818 00:57:01,379 --> 00:57:03,673 maybe things where you've slipped a little. 819 00:57:03,714 --> 00:57:05,967 He dissected me on the deepest level I've ever been. 820 00:57:07,093 --> 00:57:08,886 I felt like I was being carved down 821 00:57:08,928 --> 00:57:12,307 into a little tiny person, down to almost like an ant. 822 00:57:14,892 --> 00:57:17,436 And I remember I just literally couldn't take anymore. 823 00:57:18,855 --> 00:57:20,731 Humanly, emotionally 824 00:57:20,773 --> 00:57:23,818 couldn't take it. You know, I was hurting. I was crying. 825 00:57:26,196 --> 00:57:29,115 He reached over and he gave me a big hug. 826 00:57:31,534 --> 00:57:33,577 "I've given you my unconditional love," he says. 827 00:57:33,619 --> 00:57:35,288 "Do not fail to take advantage of it." 828 00:57:38,624 --> 00:57:41,794 It's a friendship and a love that... 829 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. 830 00:57:54,932 --> 00:57:56,726 NARRATOR: There is just a thin screen 831 00:57:56,767 --> 00:57:59,937 of ether between the world and my guru. 832 00:58:02,357 --> 00:58:04,525 He's haunting me day and night. 833 00:58:06,444 --> 00:58:08,612 "Return to India. 834 00:58:08,654 --> 00:58:11,615 "You must come. Make the supreme effort." 835 00:58:16,079 --> 00:58:20,250 Traversing ten thousand miles in the twinkling of an eye. 836 00:58:20,291 --> 00:58:23,961 His message penetrated my being like a flash of lightning. 837 00:58:26,381 --> 00:58:30,009 I have spent 15 years in spreading my guru's teachings in America. 838 00:58:30,718 --> 00:58:32,511 Now he recalls me. 839 00:58:45,275 --> 00:58:49,070 Our arrival found such an immense crowd assembled to greet us. 840 00:58:49,112 --> 00:58:52,823 I was unprepared for the magnitude of our welcome. 841 00:58:58,955 --> 00:59:01,332 We broke our journey halfway across the continent, 842 00:59:01,374 --> 00:59:02,583 to see Mahatma Gandhi. 843 00:59:07,505 --> 00:59:09,799 After great discussions he took lessons, 844 00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,052 Kriya, and recharging exercises. 845 00:59:13,094 --> 00:59:17,181 I was touched by his spirit of inquiry. 846 00:59:17,223 --> 00:59:21,644 When we prayed together, the whole place seemed filled with God. 847 00:59:27,233 --> 00:59:31,195 WRIGHT: Master could hardly wait until he got to meet his master. 848 00:59:50,881 --> 00:59:51,674 It was indescribable, the... 849 00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:55,512 ...meeting between the two. 850 00:59:58,722 --> 01:00:03,894 Master dropped to his knees, touched his feet, of Sri Yukteswar Giri 851 01:00:03,936 --> 01:00:07,148 Yukteswar Giri was welcoming back his triumphant son. 852 01:00:11,110 --> 01:00:14,989 NARRATOR: A healing calm descended at the mere sight of my guru. 853 01:00:17,283 --> 01:00:19,369 Quietly sitting beside him, 854 01:00:19,410 --> 01:00:24,040 I would feel his bounty pouring peacefully over my being. 855 01:00:30,713 --> 01:00:33,550 Such spiritual atmosphere I so long missed. 856 01:00:35,426 --> 01:00:39,847 Day and night passes with God-mad, God-hungry crowds. 857 01:00:47,522 --> 01:00:49,732 It's wonderful to work amidst people 858 01:00:49,773 --> 01:00:52,235 who don't need coaxing to be spiritual. 859 01:01:02,537 --> 01:01:05,456 The Himalayan caves are calling me. 860 01:01:05,498 --> 01:01:08,751 And the people's heart-caves are welcoming me. 861 01:01:16,717 --> 01:01:20,846 But for a few beloved disciples at Mount Washington, 862 01:01:20,888 --> 01:01:22,848 I have no attraction to go back to America. 863 01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:29,980 I would roam by the Jumna where Krishna played his flute of eternity 864 01:01:30,022 --> 01:01:32,233 and never visit the shores of material life. 865 01:02:03,306 --> 01:02:05,975 The line of Bengal is gone. 866 01:02:24,285 --> 01:02:29,499 The body which had reflected omnipresent wisdom lay lifeless, before me, mocking. 867 01:03:09,163 --> 01:03:09,955 Master mine, 868 01:03:12,458 --> 01:03:13,626 why did you leave me? 869 01:03:53,082 --> 01:03:57,294 The Lord is showing me, wherever I am, 870 01:03:57,336 --> 01:03:58,379 that's my home. 871 01:04:01,090 --> 01:04:02,508 My home is on the train. 872 01:04:04,009 --> 01:04:05,762 Then it shall be in the hotel. 873 01:04:06,512 --> 01:04:07,764 And then on the ship. 874 01:04:09,515 --> 01:04:10,767 How can I leave my home? 875 01:04:11,684 --> 01:04:13,060 It's everywhere. 876 01:04:22,319 --> 01:04:26,865 CHIDANANDA: When Sri Yukteswar first sent Yogananda on his mission to America, 877 01:04:26,907 --> 01:04:28,743 it was right after World War I, 878 01:04:28,785 --> 01:04:31,870 which was supposed to be the war to end all wars. 879 01:04:35,249 --> 01:04:39,462 Now, tensions were heating up in Europe and Asia, 880 01:04:39,503 --> 01:04:42,005 and Yogananda saw that we could be 881 01:04:42,047 --> 01:04:44,550 entering a period of even greater horror. 882 01:04:49,430 --> 01:04:52,057 CHIDANANDA: The need for the teachings was more urgent than ever. 883 01:05:11,452 --> 01:05:14,913 After his guru died, something shifted in him. 884 01:05:20,919 --> 01:05:26,550 GOLDBERG: He was just experiencing these profound states of consciousness. 885 01:05:26,592 --> 01:05:28,552 His eyes just turned glassy. He just... (WHOOSHES) Withdrew. 886 01:05:29,512 --> 01:05:30,805 And he was gone, you know. 887 01:05:35,434 --> 01:05:40,022 MATA: And ofttimes it gave concern to us younger ones. 888 01:05:40,063 --> 01:05:41,774 His heart seemed to cease beating. 889 01:05:46,529 --> 01:05:51,158 He had instructed us that whenever he went into Samadhi, 890 01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:52,743 that we could bring him out of it 891 01:05:52,785 --> 01:05:55,579 by chanting "om" in his right ear. 892 01:05:56,997 --> 01:05:58,833 And I thought "Wow. This is something different." 893 01:05:58,875 --> 01:06:00,793 This was a little scary. 894 01:06:00,835 --> 01:06:02,336 (GASPS) 895 01:06:02,378 --> 01:06:05,964 Is my guru, always now going to be 896 01:06:06,006 --> 01:06:07,090 in this state? 897 01:06:08,676 --> 01:06:12,555 I would be in awe to ever 898 01:06:12,596 --> 01:06:14,306 approach him in the same way. 899 01:06:23,190 --> 01:06:24,441 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 900 01:06:24,483 --> 01:06:26,903 My body became just like stone... 901 01:06:26,944 --> 01:06:29,530 and still I was fully conscious, 902 01:06:29,572 --> 01:06:30,781 ...and everything was Light. 903 01:06:35,578 --> 01:06:37,955 CHIDANANDA: And it was out of that consciousness, 904 01:06:37,996 --> 01:06:40,875 that he was pulling these writings, 905 01:06:40,917 --> 01:06:44,002 these profound truths and experiences. 906 01:06:48,215 --> 01:06:51,176 MATA: He constantly stressed to me, 907 01:06:51,218 --> 01:06:53,804 get my thoughts, 908 01:06:53,846 --> 01:06:57,349 understand what I mean. 909 01:06:57,391 --> 01:07:00,728 I can do much more now to reach. 910 01:07:00,770 --> 01:07:02,354 To reach others with my pen. 911 01:07:04,273 --> 01:07:07,860 CHIDANANDA: The Autobiography of a Yogi was the first memoir 912 01:07:07,902 --> 01:07:11,572 of a genuine Indian holy man. 913 01:07:11,614 --> 01:07:16,034 SHANKAR: It was his personal feeling about his devotion to his gurus 914 01:07:16,076 --> 01:07:19,872 and what he really received from them. 915 01:07:19,914 --> 01:07:22,792 But it's not all that Yogananda wrote. 916 01:07:22,833 --> 01:07:27,630 Yogananda produced an incredible literary corpus. 917 01:07:27,671 --> 01:07:31,801 MATA: Every morning, he would have us bring a typewriter and a table, 918 01:07:31,842 --> 01:07:34,303 and bring it into his study. 919 01:07:34,344 --> 01:07:37,514 GOLDBERG: He'd still be up at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, writing. 920 01:07:37,556 --> 01:07:40,100 DAYA MATA: Night and day, he wrote or he dictated. 921 01:07:40,142 --> 01:07:42,937 And we would type all day long. 922 01:07:42,979 --> 01:07:46,315 MRINALINI MATA: And he would be totally, totally absorbed. 923 01:07:46,356 --> 01:07:48,150 Hours would go by. 924 01:07:48,191 --> 01:07:54,615 His whole consciousness became absorbed in finishing his writings. 925 01:07:54,657 --> 01:07:57,994 And it was that sense of urgency, 926 01:07:58,035 --> 01:08:00,287 it was like an acceleration, 927 01:08:00,329 --> 01:08:05,584 an acceleration of our discipline, of our training. 928 01:08:05,626 --> 01:08:08,838 CHIDANANDA: And not only was he writing, he was building temples, 929 01:08:08,879 --> 01:08:10,965 founding Brotherhood Colonies, 930 01:08:11,007 --> 01:08:13,968 and encouraging people to live together in spiritual communities. 931 01:08:26,605 --> 01:08:30,985 GOLDBERG: And then in 1945, while he was writing the autobiography, 932 01:08:31,027 --> 01:08:32,945 we set off the first atomic bomb. 933 01:09:03,893 --> 01:09:04,852 ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: Few people cried. 934 01:09:05,978 --> 01:09:07,145 Most people were silent. 935 01:09:09,606 --> 01:09:14,570 I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture of the Bhagavadgita, 936 01:09:14,611 --> 01:09:16,613 "Now I am become death, 937 01:09:16,655 --> 01:09:18,281 "the destroyer of worlds." 938 01:09:21,952 --> 01:09:25,163 About a hundred years ago, Einstein gave us a framework 939 01:09:25,205 --> 01:09:27,374 that radically changed modern physics, 940 01:09:27,416 --> 01:09:31,503 that put energy and matter on some sort of equivalent footing. 941 01:09:31,545 --> 01:09:34,090 We're going to have to expand the language of physics 942 01:09:34,131 --> 01:09:36,466 to come to terms not only with matter and energy, 943 01:09:36,508 --> 01:09:39,177 but matter, energy, and maybe even consciousness. 944 01:09:42,765 --> 01:09:47,519 NARRATOR: The human mind can and must liberate within itself 945 01:09:47,561 --> 01:09:52,274 energies greater than those within stones and metals. 946 01:09:52,315 --> 01:09:56,695 Lest the atomic giant, newly unleashed, 947 01:09:56,737 --> 01:09:59,115 dawn on the world in mindless destruction. 948 01:10:04,369 --> 01:10:06,496 CHOPRA: Modern science, as it is now, 949 01:10:06,538 --> 01:10:10,250 is based on what is called the subject-object split. 950 01:10:10,292 --> 01:10:11,919 I am the subject and there is the universe. 951 01:10:16,506 --> 01:10:19,301 Whereas spirituality says that 952 01:10:19,342 --> 01:10:22,429 there's a consciousness that includes the subject 953 01:10:22,471 --> 01:10:23,221 and the object. 954 01:10:26,016 --> 01:10:28,435 Consciousness gives rise to everything, including the brain. 955 01:10:32,314 --> 01:10:34,566 HARRISON: We've been brought up to think that 956 01:10:34,608 --> 01:10:38,654 the mind is this thing that sits up here somewhere in your brain. 957 01:10:38,695 --> 01:10:40,238 But really, the mind is everywhere. 958 01:10:42,992 --> 01:10:44,701 NEWBERG: Some people have argued that consciousness 959 01:10:44,743 --> 01:10:46,954 resides in every cell of our body. 960 01:10:46,996 --> 01:10:49,123 The only way for us to really understand 961 01:10:49,165 --> 01:10:51,249 the nature of consciousness and what it is, 962 01:10:51,291 --> 01:10:55,253 is to explore it both from the outside in and from the inside out. 963 01:11:00,383 --> 01:11:05,055 RUSSELL SIMMONS: Delusion is the belief that there's something outside of you. 964 01:11:05,097 --> 01:11:08,517 But your happiness is not based on any thing outside of you. 965 01:11:10,019 --> 01:11:12,270 In the inside, where the watcher 966 01:11:12,312 --> 01:11:14,940 is watching all of the craziness, 967 01:11:14,982 --> 01:11:15,983 kind of just laughing. 968 01:11:17,193 --> 01:11:19,111 So look inside for the watcher, 969 01:11:19,153 --> 01:11:20,278 and be connected to the watcher. 970 01:11:22,114 --> 01:11:24,033 And then be awake. 971 01:11:28,286 --> 01:11:33,542 GOLDBERG: The Indian teachings that Yogananda represented were not escapes. 972 01:11:33,583 --> 01:11:37,254 They were methods of adapting 973 01:11:37,295 --> 01:11:39,965 to these upheavals and these changes 974 01:11:40,007 --> 01:11:45,054 because they remind people that we are more than the personality 975 01:11:45,095 --> 01:11:48,098 and the roles that we play, 976 01:11:48,140 --> 01:11:49,850 and the body we inhabit. 977 01:11:52,561 --> 01:11:53,645 (MAN SPEAKING) 978 01:11:53,687 --> 01:11:55,272 When I am in the soul 979 01:11:55,313 --> 01:11:57,691 I know that... 980 01:11:57,733 --> 01:12:00,485 ...nothing is important on the earth. 981 01:12:00,527 --> 01:12:02,905 Nothing, nothing at all. 982 01:12:02,946 --> 01:12:04,948 Only Love is important. 983 01:12:08,660 --> 01:12:11,163 GOLDBERG: If we're going to change those kind of circumstances 984 01:12:11,205 --> 01:12:13,832 so there's hope for our survival, 985 01:12:13,874 --> 01:12:15,333 the change has to come from inside out. 986 01:12:19,213 --> 01:12:21,715 NARRATOR: A man who has reformed himself 987 01:12:21,757 --> 01:12:23,341 will reform thousands. 988 01:12:32,059 --> 01:12:36,688 CHIDANANDA: Yogananda saw that if there wasn't some way to reach the masses, 989 01:12:36,730 --> 01:12:39,816 with this message of experiencing 990 01:12:39,858 --> 01:12:42,402 the spirit within every human being, 991 01:12:42,444 --> 01:12:46,740 the world would not survive the transition into the atomic age. 992 01:12:46,782 --> 01:12:48,658 They were leading this foundation at that time 993 01:12:48,700 --> 01:12:51,287 to bring the teachings current. 994 01:12:51,328 --> 01:12:55,124 So they can really create a transformation on a collective level 995 01:12:55,165 --> 01:12:57,334 in the world, not just in the forest. 996 01:12:57,375 --> 01:13:01,255 That forest is here now. This is bigger, and is ever-increasing. 997 01:13:01,297 --> 01:13:02,881 If we don't practice the teachings here, 998 01:13:02,923 --> 01:13:04,382 there will be no forest left at all. 999 01:13:15,477 --> 01:13:17,646 GOLDBERG: The autobiography was a doorway in, 1000 01:13:17,687 --> 01:13:20,857 it was a table setter for millions of people. 1001 01:13:20,899 --> 01:13:24,945 Whether they ended up being practitioners of Kriya Yoga or not, 1002 01:13:24,987 --> 01:13:28,740 Yogananda was a doorway into whatever pathway they found. 1003 01:13:32,661 --> 01:13:34,871 (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE) 1004 01:13:34,913 --> 01:13:36,414 (OVERLAPPING VOICES) 1005 01:13:40,794 --> 01:13:42,338 (SPEAKING FRENCH) 1006 01:13:42,379 --> 01:13:43,839 (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE) 1007 01:13:53,515 --> 01:13:56,810 MARC BENIOFF: On the way out of the memorial service for Steve, 1008 01:13:56,852 --> 01:14:01,815 they handed us a copy of Yogananda's book. 1009 01:14:01,857 --> 01:14:06,320 Steve's last message to us was, "Actualize yourself." 1010 01:14:06,362 --> 01:14:08,446 That was Yogananda's message. 1011 01:14:08,488 --> 01:14:10,657 He was constantly encouraging you 1012 01:14:10,699 --> 01:14:12,368 to simultaneously be able to think of yourself 1013 01:14:12,409 --> 01:14:13,451 as this little blip on the planet 1014 01:14:15,704 --> 01:14:17,998 but on the other hand, you also had infinite potentialities. 1015 01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:19,457 You had the eternal soul in you. 1016 01:14:21,126 --> 01:14:23,420 So, can you simultaneously operate with that awareness 1017 01:14:23,461 --> 01:14:25,797 of recognizing, in a humble way, 1018 01:14:25,839 --> 01:14:28,008 the limited bounds of your human life, 1019 01:14:28,050 --> 01:14:29,259 and at the same time, the infinite potentialities 1020 01:14:29,301 --> 01:14:30,302 of you as a soul. 1021 01:14:33,638 --> 01:14:35,473 We have a far too limited 1022 01:14:35,515 --> 01:14:37,809 sense of our capacity as human beings 1023 01:14:37,851 --> 01:14:40,396 to overcome disease, to overcome poverty. 1024 01:14:40,437 --> 01:14:41,771 And therefore, to allow that power 1025 01:14:41,813 --> 01:14:43,357 to begin to transform the world. 1026 01:14:48,570 --> 01:14:50,155 (PEOPLE SHOUTING) 1027 01:14:55,244 --> 01:14:56,494 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 1028 01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:14,096 CHIDANANDA: When the Ambassador of India 1029 01:15:14,137 --> 01:15:16,306 visited Los Angeles for the first time, 1030 01:15:16,348 --> 01:15:19,976 how happy Yogananda was that this representative of free India, 1031 01:15:20,018 --> 01:15:23,105 liberated from the colonial rule, had come to Los Angeles. 1032 01:15:23,146 --> 01:15:24,940 And he was able to honor him. 1033 01:15:29,611 --> 01:15:32,364 A banquet was organized to welcome the ambassador. 1034 01:15:32,406 --> 01:15:34,116 And Yogananda, being one of 1035 01:15:34,157 --> 01:15:36,785 the most well-known Indians in the community, 1036 01:15:36,826 --> 01:15:39,913 was invited to give one of the key speeches that night. 1037 01:15:42,416 --> 01:15:44,751 MRINALINI MATA: The night before, 1038 01:15:44,793 --> 01:15:47,712 we were walking down the hall, he turned to me and said, 1039 01:15:47,754 --> 01:15:50,215 "Do you know, it's just a matter of hours, 1040 01:15:50,257 --> 01:15:51,508 "and I will be gone." 1041 01:15:54,094 --> 01:15:56,721 SWAMI KRIYANANDA: When Master got up to speak, I was there. 1042 01:15:59,516 --> 01:16:02,852 He had always said, "When I die, I want to die 1043 01:16:02,894 --> 01:16:05,563 "speaking of my America and my India." 1044 01:16:08,233 --> 01:16:11,945 DAYA MATA: "Free me then, O Lord, from the bondage of the body 1045 01:16:11,987 --> 01:16:15,365 "that I may show others how they can free themselves." 1046 01:16:19,202 --> 01:16:21,121 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 1047 01:16:21,163 --> 01:16:25,542 ...lotus, scenic beauty, and sages, thy wide doors are open, 1048 01:16:25,583 --> 01:16:29,546 welcoming God's true sons through all the ages. 1049 01:16:29,587 --> 01:16:32,341 Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, 1050 01:16:32,382 --> 01:16:33,842 and men dream God, 1051 01:16:35,260 --> 01:16:39,181 I am hallowed, my body touched that sod. 1052 01:16:41,891 --> 01:16:46,271 CHIDANANDA: He finished saying, "I am hallowed, my body touched that sod," 1053 01:16:46,313 --> 01:16:48,148 and then, he collapsed to the floor. 1054 01:17:01,495 --> 01:17:04,540 MATA: As I kneeled over his body, 1055 01:17:04,581 --> 01:17:07,625 tremendous force entered this body. 1056 01:17:09,919 --> 01:17:14,257 With the message to my soul, 1057 01:17:14,299 --> 01:17:16,301 "This time you cannot call him back." 1058 01:17:39,449 --> 01:17:44,037 CHIDANANDA: In the yoga tradition, there is a sacred practice 1059 01:17:44,079 --> 01:17:47,040 of knowing when you will leave your body. 1060 01:17:49,042 --> 01:17:52,546 And so consciousness moves to a grander space. 1061 01:17:56,425 --> 01:17:58,676 The doctor said that he had a heart attack. 1062 01:18:10,146 --> 01:18:13,775 NARRATOR: Watch the shore of the universe, 1063 01:18:13,816 --> 01:18:15,902 but do not become absorbed in it. 1064 01:18:18,614 --> 01:18:21,032 I behold life and death like 1065 01:18:21,074 --> 01:18:23,452 the rise and fall of waves on the sea 1066 01:18:27,539 --> 01:18:29,707 I am the ocean of consciousness. 1067 01:18:38,174 --> 01:18:40,385 A guru can't be a little old man in a blanket. 1068 01:18:41,219 --> 01:18:42,220 Or a guy in robes. 1069 01:18:43,430 --> 01:18:45,223 It could look like that, 1070 01:18:45,265 --> 01:18:50,937 because guru-ness might be living in that body for a while, 1071 01:18:50,979 --> 01:18:55,442 and it interacts with you because you have a karmic tie with that being, 1072 01:18:55,484 --> 01:18:58,570 but that being, if he's really a guru, 1073 01:18:58,612 --> 01:19:00,822 he's not at all identified with being in that body. 1074 01:19:07,162 --> 01:19:09,747 Once I asked a saint in India, I said, "Athimara..." 1075 01:19:09,789 --> 01:19:12,501 I said, "How can I get closer to my guru?" 1076 01:19:12,542 --> 01:19:14,711 He looked at me like I was crazy. 1077 01:19:14,752 --> 01:19:19,424 He said, "Your guru is what's looking out of your eyes right now." 1078 01:19:22,051 --> 01:19:23,428 So get with that for a while. 1079 01:21:15,331 --> 01:21:16,458 (YOGANANDA SPEAKING) 1080 01:21:16,499 --> 01:21:18,585 Everything is Brahma 1081 01:21:18,627 --> 01:21:20,796 Everything is Spirit 1082 01:21:20,837 --> 01:21:22,798 Everything is Light 1083 01:21:23,305 --> 01:21:29,661 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 95988

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