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Autobiography of a Yogi  is an  autobiography  of  Paramahansa Yogananda  (5 January 1893–7 March 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in  Gorakhpur, India , into a  Bengali   Hindu  family.

Autobiography of a Yogi  introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the Eastern and the Western world. The book begins with his 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 . In 1935, he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book.

The book is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual wisdom of the  East , which had only been available to a few in 1946. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master  Lahiri Mahasaya  (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known as the  Yogiraj  and  Kashi baba . Before becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual name was  Shyama Charan Lahiri .

It has been in print for seventy years and translated into over fifty languages by  Self-Realization Fellowship . [2]  It has been highly acclaimed as a spiritual classic including being designated by  Philip Zaleski , while he was under the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century." [3] [4] [5]  It is included in the book  50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose  by  Tom Butler-Bowdon . [6]  According to Project Gutenberg, the first edition is in public domain and at least five publishers are reprinting it and four post it free for online reading.

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The book that sparked a spiritual revolution.

Autobiography of a Yogi : a first-hand account of the life experiences of Paramhansa Yogananda, a spiritual master, this book has sold millions of copies and is beloved around the world by those interested in yoga and spirituality.

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Table of Contents

• 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 in 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

About two years after founding the Ranchi school, I received...

For the first time in my life I did not...

Trailanga Swami

Lahiri Mahasaya had a very famous friend, Swami Trailanga, who...

“Merciful Mother of the Universe, teach me Thyself through visions,...

My Transformational Fast

Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not. That...

My Sister Nalini

Soon after Ananta’s passing, my younger sister Nalini was brought...

My Saintly Parents

Both were blessed with saintly nature. Their mutual love, tranquil...

Lahiri Mahasaya’s Enigmatic Photograph

One of my most precious possessions is that same photograph....

What Is Behind the Darkness of Closed Eyes?

“What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?” This probing...

I Am Healed by Lahiri Mahasaya

Lahiri Mahasaya left this world shortly after I had entered...

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Stories and Insights from a Spiritual Classic

A Vision of America

The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother"

Babaji's Divine Permission

Christmas and the Silver Cup

A Poem by Mirabai

What is Behind the Darkness of Closed Eyes?

Sri Yukteswar Expounds on the Bible

What makes autobiography of a yogi so great.

Adapted from an answer on Quora by Nabha Cosley • January 9, 2016

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda talks about miracles, the yogic teachings, and the teachings of Jesus Christ in a modern way — a way that is easy to understand and even entertaining. For someone interested in spirituality, or even just alternate ways of looking at life, it’s incredibly illuminating.

The world is a different place than it would have been without this book. The New Age movement in the West, the impact the book has had on leaders in many fields, and the rise in the practice of yoga and meditation are due in large part to Yogananda’s influence and the influence of his autobiography.

Philip Goldberg wrote in American Veda that “Among the people I interviewed about their key spiritual influences, a high percentage named a book, and by far the book most often mentioned was Yogananda’s unique memoir. A distant second was Be Here Now by Ram Dass, and he mentioned the Autobiography .”

Sometimes people read it and have their life turned around entirely. It’s a book that, like other scripture, inspires life-long devotion.

Anyone who is interested should read it. It is a great book in every sense of the word.

“As a bright light shining in the midst of darkness, so was Yogananda’s presence in this world. Such a great soul comes on earth only rarely, when there is a real need among men.”

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“The greatest book I ever read.”

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1893 – 1952 Hailed as the “father of Yoga in the West,” Paramahansa Yogananda is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Born in northern India, he came to the United States in 1920, where he founded Self-Realization Fellowship, to disseminate his writings and teachings worldwide. Through his best-selling classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, and his numerous other books, he has introduced millions throughout the world to the spiritual principles of yoga meditation and the universal truths underlying all world religions.

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Welcome to the first installment of a photo essay of visits depicting SRF members and friends around the world made by Self-Realization Fellowship monastics in spring 2024. Check here later for further updates.

SRF monks and nuns conduct a wide variety of inspirational events, including public lectures on the “how-to-live” teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda; weekend retreat programs, group meditations, kirtan devotional chanting, answering spiritual questions in satsanga, and providing individual spiritual counseling at SRF meditation centers and groups; and Kriya Yoga initiations, where eligible SRF Lessons students have the opportunity to participate in the sacred ceremonies and enter the guru-disciple relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda.

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Autobiography of a Yogi  is an immensely gratifying spiritual read that has altered and enriched the lives of millions across the world, since it was first published in 1946. An originative text that tells the story of Paramhansa Yogananda, this book has been revered for its memorable, incisive and instructive teachings. This spiritual autobiography will take you on an incredible journey of Indian mysticism and spirituality and deliver humbling, comforting truths about life and existence.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paramahansa Yoganandaborn is not only famous among the Indians but also popular among the westerners as a great Yogi. He teaches millions of people mediation and Kriya Yoga through his master piece Autobiography of a Yogi. At the age of 17, in the year 1910, he found his guru Swami Yukteswar Giri. Yogananda graduated with a B.A. from the Serampore College, and in 1915 took vows to join the Swami Order. Here, he was given the name Swami Yogananda Giri. The Yogi established the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in Ranchi. In 1920, he was sent to Boston to attend the International Congress of Religious Liberals. He lived in America for the next thirty years (1920-1952), and taught the soul-awakening techniques of Kriya Yoga to many people.

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