Awake: The Life of Yogananda Page #7

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as it is now,

is based on what is called

the subject-object split.

I am the subject

and there is the universe.

Whereas spirituality

says that

there's a consciousness

that includes the subject

and the object.

Consciousness gives

rise to everything,

including the brain.

HARRISON:
We've been

brought up to think that

the mind is this thing

that sits up here

somewhere in your brain.

But really,

the mind is everywhere.

NEWBERG:
Some people have

argued that consciousness

resides in every cell

of our body.

The only way for us

to really understand

the nature of consciousness

and what it is,

is to explore it both

from the outside in

and from the inside out.

RUSSELL SIMMONS:
Delusion is

the belief that there's

something outside of you.

But your happiness

is not based on any thing

outside of you.

In the inside,

where the watcher

is watching all

of the craziness,

kind of just laughing.

So look inside

for the watcher,

and be connected

to the watcher.

And then be awake.

GOLDBERG:
The Indian

teachings that Yogananda

represented were not escapes.

They were methods of adapting

to these upheavals

and these changes

because they remind

people that we are

more than the personality

and the roles that we play,

and the body we inhabit.

(MAN SPEAKING)

When I am in the soul

I know that...

...nothing is important

on the earth.

Nothing, nothing at all.

Only Love is important.

GOLDBERG:
If we're going

to change those kind

of circumstances

so there's hope

for our survival,

the change has to

come from inside out.

NARRATOR:
A man who has

reformed himself

will reform thousands.

CHIDANANDA:
Yogananda saw

that if there wasn't some

way to reach the masses,

with this message

of experiencing

the spirit within

every human being,

the world would not

survive the transition

into the atomic age.

They were leading

this foundation at that time

to bring

the teachings current.

So they can really create

a transformation on

a collective level

in the world,

not just in the forest.

That forest is here now.

This is bigger,

and is ever-increasing.

If we don't practice

the teachings here,

there will be no

forest left at all.

GOLDBERG:
The autobiography

was a doorway in,

it was a table setter

for millions of people.

Whether they ended

up being practitioners

of Kriya Yoga or not,

Yogananda was a doorway

into whatever pathway

they found.

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

(OVERLAPPING VOICES)

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)

MARC BENIOFF:
On the way

out of the memorial

service for Steve,

they handed us a copy

of Yogananda's book.

Steve's last message to us

was, "Actualize yourself."

That was Yogananda's message.

He was constantly

encouraging you

to simultaneously

be able to think

of yourself

as this little blip

on the planet

but on the other hand,

you also had

infinite potentialities.

You had

the eternal soul in you.

So, can you simultaneously

operate with that awareness

of recognizing,

in a humble way,

the limited bounds

of your human life,

and at the same time,

the infinite potentialities

of you as a soul.

We have a far too limited

sense of our capacity

as human beings

to overcome disease,

to overcome poverty.

And therefore,

to allow that power

to begin to transform

the world.

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

CHIDANANDA:

When the Ambassador

of India

visited Los Angeles

for the first time,

how happy Yogananda was

that this representative

of free India,

liberated from

the colonial rule,

had come to Los Angeles.

And he was able to honor him.

A banquet was organized

to welcome the ambassador.

And Yogananda,

being one of

the most well-known

Indians in the community,

was invited to give one of

the key speeches that night.

MRINALINI MATA:

The night before,

we were walking down the hall,

he turned to me and said,

"Do you know,

it's just a matter of hours,

"and I will be gone."

SWAMI KRIYANANDA: When Master

got up to speak, I was there.

He had always said,

"When I die, I want to die

"speaking of my America

and my India."

DAYA MATA:

"Free me then, O Lord,

from the bondage of the body

"that I may show others

how they can free themselves."

(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)

...lotus, scenic beauty,

and sages, thy wide doors

are open,

welcoming God's true sons

through all the ages.

Where Ganges,

woods, Himalayan caves,

and men dream God,

I am hallowed,

my body touched that sod.

CHIDANANDA:
He finished

saying, "I am hallowed,

my body touched that sod,"

and then,

he collapsed to the floor.

MATA:
As I kneeled

over his body,

tremendous force

entered this body.

With the message to my soul,

"This time you cannot

call him back."

CHIDANANDA:

In the yoga tradition,

there is a sacred practice

of knowing when you

will leave your body.

And so consciousness moves

to a grander space.

The doctor said that

he had a heart attack.

NARRATOR:
Watch the shore

of the universe,

but do not become

absorbed in it.

I behold life

and death like

the rise and fall

of waves on the sea

I am the ocean

of consciousness.

A guru can't be

a little old man

in a blanket.

Or a guy in robes.

It could look like that,

because guru-ness

might be living in

that body for a while,

and it interacts with you

because you have a karmic

tie with that being,

but that being,

if he's really a guru,

he's not at all identified

with being in that body.

Once I asked a saint in India,

I said, "Athimara..."

I said, "How can I

get closer to my guru?"

He looked at me

like I was crazy.

He said, "Your guru

is what's looking out

of your eyes right now."

So get with that for a while.

(YOGANANDA SPEAKING)

Everything is Brahma

Everything is Spirit

Everything is Light

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