Rizwan “Riz” Virk, MS, is an entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, venture capitalist, and computer scientist. He was the founder of Play Labs @ MIT and is currently doing a PhD and teaching classes at both the College of Global Futures and the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also an advisor to the Galileo Project. He is author of The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientists Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are in a Video Game, Startup Myths & Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School, Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success, Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of a Career Warrior, and Wisdom of a Yogi: Lessons for Modern Seekers from Autobiography of a Yogi. His website is zenentrepreneur.com.

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, Rizwan Virk highlights stories and lessons from saints and mystics from the book, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda. He offers that life is like a video game where we all must find our own karmic path through quests and achievements.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:07:40 Yogananda

00:16:01 Stories from Autobiography of a Yogi

00:20:40 Vison of Yogananda

00:30:20 Karma

00:46:19 Purpose of the game

00:55:41 Siddhis

01:06:29 Astral object

01:14:09 Yoga and religion

01:16:08 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.

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(Recorded on September 8, 2023)

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Published on October 25, 2023