#GeorgeHarrison explains his understanding of #Vedanta. Harrison quotes from #Swami #Vivekananda as the inspiritation for his Search For A Higher #Truth.
George Harrison was first exposed to Indian music during the filming of Help! in the Summer of 1965. He sought out Ravi Shankar as a Sitar teacher who gave Harrison books on Vedanta and Swami Vivekananda, who came to American in 1893 to establish Vedanta Centers in New York and San Francisco. Over 30 centers are now scattered across the US and the world.
Harrison had been raised a Cahtholic, but by the age of 15 he renounced it as hypocritical. The Vivekananda quote that grabs his attention and set him on the path of meditation was:
"If there's a God, we must see Him. If there's a soul, we must perceive It; otherwise it's better not to believe."
He got further into meditation during his 1968 trip to India and initiation by the Maharishi.
This was the central factor in the whole rest of his life.-
