Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Yogananda's life story, Autobiography of a Yogi, was published in 1946. A perennial best seller, the book has been in continuous publication since it first appeared and has been translated into many languages. It is widely regarded as a modern spiritual classic.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
This is the 70th-anniversary edition of Autobiography of a Yogi. Designated one of the 100 most important spiritual books of the 20th century, this book is the verbatim reprint of the 1946 first edition, with all its intact inherent power.
- Autobiography of a Yogi is the autobiography of the realized master Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and the West. The autobiography begins with Yogananda’s childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California.
- Autobiography of a Yogi is both an engaging narrative of Yoganandya’s life, as well as a monumental work of spiritual teaching. It has been in print for seventy years and has been highly acclaimed as a spiritual classic.
- A timeless masterpiece.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Author’s Acknowledgments
- My Parents and Early Life
- My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet
- The Saint With Two Bodies
- My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
- A “Perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders
- The Tiger Swami
- The Levitating Saint
- India’s Great Scientist, J. C. Bose
- The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
- I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
- Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
- Years in My Master’s Hermitage
- The Sleepless Saint
- An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
- The Cauliflower Robbery
- Outwitting the Stars
- Sasi and the Three Sapphires
- A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
- My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
- We Do Not Visit Kashmir
- We Visit Kashmir
- The Heart of a Stone Image
- I Receive My University Degree
- I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
- Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
- The Science of Kriya Yoga
- Founding a Yoga School At Ranchi
- Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
- Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
- The Law of Miracles
- An Interview with the Sacred Mother
- Rama is Raised from the Dead
- Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
- Materializing a Palace in the Himalaya
- The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
- Babaji’s Interest in the West
- I Go to America
- Luther Burbank—A Saint Amidst the Roses
- Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
- I Return to India
- An Idyl in South India
- Last Days with My Guru
- The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
- With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
- The Bengali “Joy-Permeated” Mother
- The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
- I Return to the West
- At Encinitas in California
Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi. In the hundred years since the birth of Paramahansa Yogananda, this beloved world teacher has come to be recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the West of India’s ancient wisdom. His life and teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures and creeds.
