Because It Is Practical

The gesture was both humble and grand, a final offering of wisdom and inspiration from one of the greatest visionary minds of our time. The small brown box, like a treasure chest, held within it a book full of insights to understand one's innermost self.

At his memorial service in 2011, Steve Jobs gave attendees the book ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ by Paramahansa Yogananda as a parting gift.

It supposedly was the only book he had saved on his iPad. Why this book?

Because “quite apart from the charm of the new and the fascination of the half-understood, there is good cause for yoga to have many adherents,” German psychiatrist Carl Jung explained. “It offers the possibility of controllable experience and thus satisfies the scientific need for ‘facts’; and, besides this, by reason of its breadth and depth, its venerable age, its doctrine and method, which include every phase of life, it promises undreamed-of possibilities.”