Raja Choudhury...on making "America's First Guru"

Abhay is joined by award-winning filmmaker, Raja Choudhury, whose newest documentary "America's First Guru" is available to stream on PBS, and showcases the story of the young and charismatic Swami Vivekananda’s travels to the US in the late 1800’s to speak at the first World’s Parliament of Religions conference in Chicago, broadly introducing Hindu philosophy and India’s spiritual culture to American audiences.
(0:00 - 2:41) Introduction
(2:41) Part 1 - deciding to make the film, surprises and discoveries
(16:53) Part 2 - unlearnings, journey toward "bliss", American experience
(29:42) Part 3 - trusting in spirituality, Indian and Hindu wisdom, empowering message