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Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952)

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"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda is a spiritual autobiography published in 1946. It chronicles Yogananda's journey from childhood in India through his search for his guru, his establishment of Kriya Yoga meditation teachings, and his travels to America where he lectured and founded the Self-Realization Fellowship. The book introduces Eastern spiritual wisdom and methods of God-realization to Western readers, featuring encounters with saints, scientists, and spiritual figures across two continents. Designated one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, it has sold millions of copies worldwide.

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  • Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952
  • Yogis · India · Biography

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Autobiography of a Yogi

By Paramhansa Yogananda

WITH A PREFACE BY
W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc.

“EXCEPT YE SEE SIGNS AND WONDERS,
YE WILL NOT BELIEVE.”-John 4:48.

Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
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  1. Autobiography of a Yogi
  2. Preface
  3. Author’s Acknowledgments
  4. My Parents and Early Life
  5. My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet
  6. The Saint with Two Bodies
  7. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
  8. Chapter: 5
  9. The Tiger Swami
  10. The Levitating Saint
  11. India’s Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
  12. The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
  13. I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
  14. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
  15. Years in My Master’s Hermitage
  16. The Sleepless Saint
  17. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
  18. The Cauliflower Robbery
  19. Outwitting the Stars
  20. Sasi and the Three Sapphires
  21. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
  22. My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
  23. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
  24. We Visit Kashmir
  25. The Heart of a Stone Image
  26. I Receive My University Degree
  27. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
  28. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
  29. The Science of Kriya Yoga
  30. Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi
  31. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
  32. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
  33. The Law of Miracles
  34. This Conception Brings Us to the Law of Miracles
  35. An Interview with the Sacred Mother
  36. Rama Is Raised from the Dead
  37. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
  38. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
  39. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
  40. Babaji’s Interest in the West
  41. I Go to America
  42. Sri Yukteswar Giri
  43. Chapter: 38
  44. Santa Rosa, California
  45. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
  46. I Return to India
  47. An Idyl in South India
  48. Last Days with My Guru
  49. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
  50. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
  51. Mahatma Gandhi’s Handwriting in Hindi
  52. Chapter: 45
  53. The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
  54. I Return to the West
  55. At Encinitas in California

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This free edition of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #7452, released 2005-02-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Biographies, Religion/Spirituality.

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