AWAKE: The Life of Paramahansa Yogananda is an unconventional biography. He who brought Yoga and Meditation to the West in the 1920s, following the instructions of his Guru – Mahavatar Babaji. Paramahansa Yogananda authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi”, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and is a go-to book for seekers, philosophers and yoga enthusiasts today. (Apparently, it was the only book that Steve Jobs had on his iPad.) By sharing his struggles along the path with all, Yogananda made ancient Vedic teachings accessible to a modern audience, attracting many devottes and inspiring the millions of people.
Filmed over three years with the participation of 30 countries around the world, the documentary examines the world of yoga, modern and ancient, east and west and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the limitations of the material world in pursuit of self-realization.
Archival material from the life of Yogananda (who leave us in 1952) creates a spine for the narrative, but the film stretches the dimensions of a standard biography. The footage includes stylized interviews, metaphoric imagery and recreations, taking us from holy pilgrimages in India to Harvard’s Divinity School and its cutting-edge physics labs, from the Center for Science and Spirituality at the University of Pennsylvania to the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California. By evoking the journey of the soul as it pushes its way through the oppression of the human ego and delusion of the material world, the film creates an experiential immersion into the unseen realms. AWAKE is ultimately the story of humanity itself: the universal struggle of all beings to free themselves from suffering and to seek eternal happiness.
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