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Autobiography of a Yogi
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Autobiography of a Yogi (1972) (edit title/settings)

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Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures... read more

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A well-documented book on the life of Paramahansa Yogananda which include important facts about yoga and meditation. A must-read book for the seekers of truth.

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  • “The unifying light alternated with materializations of form, the metamorphoses revealing the law of cause and effect in creation”
  • “No man lives who has not seen some of his prayers granted”
    Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “If you do not invite God as a Summer guest, He will not come in the Winter of your Life”
    Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya
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First Sentence edit see section history

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. My Parents and Early Life
2. My Mother's Death and the Mystic Amulet
3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
4. My Interrupted Flight Towards the Himalayas
5. A "Perfume Saint" Displays His Wonders
6. The Tiger Swami
7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
8. India's Great Scientist, J. C. Bose
9. The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
10. I Met My Master, Sri Yukteswar
11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
12. Years in my Master's Hermitage
13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Mazumdar)
14. An Experience In Cosmic Conciousness
15. The Cauliflower Robbery
16. Outwitting the Stars
17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires
18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)
19. My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
21. We Visit Kashmir
22. The Heart of a Stone Image
23. I Receive 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 a Yoga School in Ranchi
28. Kashi, Reborn and Discovered
29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
30. The Law Miracles
31. An Interview With the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
32. Rama Is Raised From The Dead
33. Babaji, 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
38. Luther Burbank-A Saint Amid the Roses
39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
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 Begali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma)
46. The Women Yogi Who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
47. I Return To West
48. At Encinitas in California
49. The Years 1940-1951
Paramhansa Yogananda: A Yogi in Life and Death
Commemorative stamp issued by Government of India in honour of Paramahansa Yogananda
Aims and Ideals of Yogoda Satsang Society of India
Index

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  • Exigencies: urgent need or demand
  • frankincense: a kind of sweet smelling gum obtained from an African tree and burned as incense

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. W.Y. Evans-Wentz (Preface)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: RIder
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Publication Date: 1972
ISBN: 0090210530
Page Count: 408

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