Paramahansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi — Steve Jobs' favorite book

Virk recommends Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, noting it was Steve Jobs' favorite book and was handed out at his funeral. Yogananda explained the world as a film in which we are both actors and audience, a precursor to today's video-game metaphor.

“There was a, one of the first Indian yogis to come over to the U.S. and live here and make an impact was a guy named Swami Yogananda. He wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, which was Steve Jobs', you know, favorite book.”