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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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  • 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

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  • 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

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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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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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Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) was first published in 1946 and has since become a much-loved and admired book around the world. It is regarded as one of the classics of 20th-century spiritual literature. In 1999, it was named by a HarperCollins panel of authors and scholars as one of the “100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century.” In the book, Yogananda tells the story of his life, beginning with his childhood and family, his interest from an early age in seeking God, and his relationship with his spiritual master. After meeting his master, Sri Yukteswar, he became a monk. His spiritual understanding matured, and in 1917 Yogananda founded both a school and a spiritual organization: the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Three years later, he sailed to the United States, where he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship. From that point until his death in 1952, Yogananda dedicated himself to bringing knowledge of Indian spirituality to the West, primarily through teaching the Kriya Yoga technique. One of Yogananda’s goals was to present Indian spiritual philosophy and techniques in practical, scientific terms that would appeal to his Western audience .

Autobiography of a Yogi relates many anecdotes from Yogananda’s life and from the lives of the many saints and gurus he interacted with. Many of these stories include apparently supernatural phenomena including miraculous healings, divine visions, and premonitions of the future. Yogananda treats these miraculous events as evidence of the essential unity of all things. As such, they aid the spiritual seeker in Realizing the True Nature of the Self , which—in Yogananda’s philosophy—extends beyond the individual self to encompass the universe in its entirety.

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For more than 75 years, Autobiography of a Yogi has influenced spiritual seekers all over the world, including Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Inc., and George Harrison, musician and member of The Beatles. The book has been translated into over 50 languages. From its headquarters in Los Angeles, the Self-Realization Fellowship continues to further Yogananda’s teachings today.

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Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, India, around the turn of the 20th century, Mukunda Lal Ghosh feels the desire to seek God from a young age. Both of his parents are devotees of the guru Lahiri Mahasaya , and even as a child he often prays and experiences visions. In high school, he plans a trip to the Himalayas to find a spiritual master, and he also seeks out various saints and learns about their powers. One saint has the ability to be in two places at once; another can manifest specific perfumes, a third used to fight tigers, and a fourth is able to levitate. Mukunda also visits an Indian scientist, Jagadish Chandra (J.C.) Bose, inventor of the crescograph, an instrument that measures the growth—and, Bose claims, the emotional life—of plants. With another saint, Master Mahasaya, he takes a pilgrimage to the Temple of Kali, where he learns about the Divine Mother.

After graduating high school, Mukunda joins a hermitage in Benaras, but he is not happy there. One day, he meets Sri Yukteswar Giri , who will become his spiritual master. Mukunda spends much time at Sri Yukteswar’s ashram in Serampore, near Calcutta, and he also enrolls in college. Under Sri Yukteswar’s tutelage, he makes great spiritual progress. The guru initiates him into the technique of Kriya Yoga. Mukunda also experiences Sri Yukteswar’s miraculous powers. His master can predict the future and heal the sick. Miracles, visions, healing, and the master-disciple relationship thus emerge as themes in the narrative . Mukunda also learns that it is wrong to misuse spiritual powers. After Mukunda graduates from college, Sri Yukteswar initiates him into the Swami Order, and Mukunda adopts the name Yogananda.

Yogananda visits Japan and China. His brother dies and his sister falls dangerously ill but recovers, thanks to the spiritual help he and Sri Yukteswa offer. In 1917, Yogananda founds a school for boys in India. As Yogananda continues to grow in spiritual wisdom, he meets the poet Rabindranath Tagore and visits Srimati Kashi Moni, the wife of his parents’ mentor Lahiri Mahasaya. Moni tells him of miracles that her husband performed. Then, Sri Yukteswar tells of the time when Lahiri Mahasaya raised a man from the dead. Yogananda also learns about Babaji , an immortal guru, whom Sri Yukteswar has met three times.

Yogananda travels to America in 1920 as a delegate to an international congress in Boston. This trip begins a 15-year period in which he travels widely across the United States, speaking about Indian spirituality and teaching Kriya Yoga. He establishes an American headquarters in Los Angeles and becomes friends with botanist Luther Burbank. Returning to Europe, he visits Catholic mystic Therese Neumann. Back in India, Sri Yukteswar dies in 1936, and Yogananda sees his guru’s resurrected form. Yogananda then looks back at his 1935 visit to Mahatma Gandhi and later visits two more female saints before returning to America, where his disciples have built a hermitage for him in Encinitas, California. The Self-Realization Fellowship he founded flourishes in the years 1940 to 1951.

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"The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God," said Paramhansa Yogananda in the book "The Essence of Self-Realization". He further wrote that "Self- Realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing."

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