Review of Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014) by Ralphcurt — 11 Dec 2014

I really liked this movie. It is more of a documentary than a movie but I liked that - more fact than fiction is good in a movie like this. The movie does a wonderful job of showing us eastern cultural norms (India) and contrasts them against the western (USA) norm of the 1920's. I also loved the way it showed us how the initial success of the Swami Yogananda was based on the "exotic" nature of his approach, was then trashed once it became old hat and then, most importantly, how he ascended to his true spiritual essence simply by relaying on faith and truth. “Where is God?” one person asks? "He is looking out of your eyes.".

This movie humbled me and showed me what has ultimate value.