Philip Goldberg is an American author, teacher, speaker, and ordained Interfaith Minister. He has studied spiritual traditions around the world for more than forty-five years.
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Philip Goldberg (author of American Veda and The Life of Yogananda) speaks on the impact of Swami Vivekananda on spirituality in America.
Paramahansa Yogananda was called "the 20th century's first superstar guru" (Los Angeles Times), and today, nearly a century after he arrived in the United States, he's still the best known and most beloved of all the Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West.
The gurus reserved practices like mantra chanting and ceremonial pujas for committed devotees, while offering philosophy, meditation, and postural yoga to peripheral followers and the general public.
How Indian Spirituality Changed the West
