Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Book Review: A SPIRITUAL CLASSIC FOR TRUTH SEEKERS
Summary: 5 Stars

This autobiography turned my life around.
From many interesting years as a student of world religions, it gave me the most convincing and inspiring motivation to change from an academic search to an active spiritual practice and lifestyle. It gave me true hope, purpose and direction.

The author began revising this book after its first publication to enhance the presentations of His teachings.
He personally trained successor editors, Whom he personally trained, who have also made improvements to this work according to directions left by him.

Thus the latest by SRF editions clarify and fully show the master's final concepts for his work.
This is like the adding finishing touches which an artist puts on his work.

He also made the only Organization he founded the sole legal authority for the publishing of all his talks and writings etc.

The author, a Hindu Yogi of great lineage was the first great Yogi to introduce Kriya Yoga and advanced meditation methods [ Pranayama] in the west. He is now known as the father of Yoga to America. His succeeding organizations offer courses in advanced spiritual teachings and yoga meditation by correspondence with personal consultations from the monastic order which he founded.

This book has changed the lives of millions around the world and was chosen by 3 sources as one of the best spiritual books published in the 20th It has now been translated into 19 languages.

Reading this book was the single most significant inspiration in my life.
This book also contains many interesting photos of the authors family and other well known
spiritual greats from the east and the west.
Yogananda founded Yogoda Sat Sanga in India & Self-Realization Fellowship in the West, which have been doing Educational and humanitarian work since 1916 throughout India and the world.

The main point of his teachings is to bring harmony and cooperation amongst the peoples of all religions and cultures. This appreciation and interfaith ecumenicism is prevalent throughout this work. This book will answer many of your most life seeking questions and give you a better sense of direction.

Yogananda's book and other writing cover a great wealth of spiritual topics, including bios of great world saviours, other religions, the function of the master-disciple relationship, seeking God with intense devotion and clear directions.

Table of Contents & Chapters 1979 edition;

1. My Parents and Early Life
2. Mother's Death and the Amulet
3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas.
5. A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders.
6. The Tiger Swami.
7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
8. India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose
9. The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
10. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar.
11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban.
12. Years in my Master's Hermitage.
13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness.
15. The Cauliflower Robbery.
16. Outwitting the Stars.
17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires.
18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
19. My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore
20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
21. We Visit Kashmir
22. The Heart of a Stone Image (a healing miracle)
23. My University Degree
24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
26. The Science of Kriya Yoga
27. Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi
28. Kashi, Reborn, and Rediscovered.
29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
30. The Law of Miracles
31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother.
32. Rama is Raised from the Dead
33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
36. Babaji's Interest in the West
37. I Go to America (in Sept 1920)
38. Luther Burbank -- An American Saint
39. Therese Neumann,Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria.
40. I Return to India.
41. An Idyl in South India.
42. Last Days with my Guru.
43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar.
44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha.
45. The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma)
46. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats.(Giri Bala)
47. I Return to the West.
48. At Encinitas in California.
49. The Years 1940-1951.(this chapter is missing in
the earliest editions, and was added by the author)

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