“I brought you a treat,” Ben Sinclair says as we settle onto a bench in a shady grove within the gates of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine on a balmy January afternoon in Los Angeles. Once a hilltop hotel, the estate and its gardens were converted in 1950 into a spiritual center by the yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. Today, monks in ocher robes stroll the sprawling, verdant grounds. Sinclair hands me two kishu mandarins and a Fuji-apple Spindrift, a “rare flavor” he orders online.