Hindu Influence on America

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, planned every detail of his own memorial service, held at Stanford University in October 2011, including the brown box each attendee received as a farewell gift. What did it contain?

• Apple iPhone

• Statue of Buddha

• Bhagavad Gita

• Autobiography of a Yogi

Who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi?

• Swami Vivekananda

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Dayananda Saraswathi

Who quoted Bhagavad Gita “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” after the First Nuclear explosion?

• Aldous Huxley

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

Which famous scientist became a friend of Swami Vivekananda and found commonality between Science and Sankhya Philosophy?

• Thomas Edison

• Guglielmo Marconi

• George Westinghouse

• Nikola Tesla

Can you identify the unrelated one below?

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• George Harrison of Beatles

• Maestro Ravi Shankar

• Pink Floyd

Vedic City is located in

• Iowa

• Colorado

• New York

• California

Recognize this person who influenced Bruce Lee

• Ramana Maharshi

• Neem Karoli Baba

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Radhakrishnan

Recognize the Yoga teacher who revolutionized Yoga in America

• BKS Iyengar

• Baba Ramdev

• Swami Shivananda

• Tirumalai Krishnamacharya