Rizwan Virk

It was movies, movie projectors.

He said, the world is like a movie projector, right?

You're playing these parts.

The actors are playing the parts on the screen and things are happening to them.

But really, the actors aren't necessarily dying.

It's the characters that are suffering, you know, within the game, within the movie itself.

And so he used that metaphor.

as a way to try to explain this ancient religious idea that's at the core of every single religion, which is that the world as we see it is not really real and there's a real world beyond this world.

And so he updated the metaphor to use movie projectors.

And if you've ever been, we've all been in movie theaters, if you look away from the screen, you can kind of see the flickering of the light.

You can kind of see everybody's so engrossed in it that they're not looking around.

They don't know what's going on other than maybe having some popcorn or something.

Today, I think we need to update those metaphors, particularly for a younger generation who spent as much of their time in things like Fortnite or Roblox when they were younger as avatars.

If we use the metaphor

of a massively multiplayer online game.

And I think Yogananda, if you were alive today, in fact, my latest book, which I wrote after the simulation books, because it was the 75th anniversary of Autobiography of a Yogi a couple years ago, and HarperCollins India asked me to write this book about

What can you learn from Autobiography of a Yogi?

And there's all these weird stories in there of like, you know, some guy materializing a palace in the Himalayas out of nowhere, right?

You've got levitating saints.

You've got guys bilocating, disappearing, all kinds of crazy shit going on, right?