The Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography of A Yogi' tells the life story of Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the best spiritual books ever written. This introduces western readers to India's ancient science of Yoga. This book is a must read for anyone interested in spirituality, God-realization, and the laws behind miracles. The book covers Yogananda's remarkable childhood, and describes his search for his guru, Yukteswar Giri. Yogananda then spent ten years in training to become a yoga master. He taught many others The Science of Kriya Yoga, a technique that was initiated by Yukteswar. The Yogi also established a school by the name of Yogoda Satsanga Brahmacharya Vidyalaya.

About Paramahansa Yogananda:

Paramahansa Yogananda was born in as Mukunda Lal Ghosh. He was an Indian yogi and guru.

Some of the books written by him are Karma and Reincarnation, How To Have Courage, Calmness, And Confidence: The Wisdom Of Yogananda 1st Edition, The Bhagavad Gita 1st Edition, and Whispers From Eternity 1st Edition.

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. Yogananda visited India in 1935, where he was given the monastic title of Paramahansa, which represents the highest spiritual attainment. The Yogi passed away in 1952, and his funeral service was attended by with hundreds of people in Los Angeles. On his twenty?fifth death anniversary, the Indian government issued a special commemorative stamp in his honour.

CONTENTS:

* Preface

* Chapter 1: My Parents and Early Life

* Chapter 2: Mother's Death and the Amulet

* Chapter 3: The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)

* Chapter 4: My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya

* Chapter 5: A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders

* Chapter 6: The Tiger Swami

* Chapter 7: The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)

* Chapter 8: India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose

* Chapter 9: The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)* Chapter 10: I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar

* Chapter 11: Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban

* Chapter 12: Years in my Master's Hermitage

* Chapter 13: The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)

* Chapter 14: An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness

* Chapter 15: The Cauliflower Robbery

* Chapter 16: Outwitting the Stars

* Chapter 17: Sasi and the Three Sapphires

* Chapter 18: A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)

* Chapter 19: My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore

* Chapter 20: We Do Not Visit Kashmir

* Chapter 21: We Visit Kashmir

* Chapter 22: The Heart of a Stone Image

* Chapter 23: My University Degree

* Chapter 24: I Become a Monk of the Swami Order

* Chapter 25: Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini

* Chapter 26: The Science of Kriya Yoga

* Chapter 27: Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi

* Chapter 28: Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered

* Chapter 29: Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools

* Chapter 30: The Law of Miracles

* Chapter 31: An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)

* Chapter 32: Rama is Raised from the Dead

* Chapter 33: Babaji, the Yogi of Modern India

* Chapter 34: Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas

* Chapter 35: The Christlike(?) Life of Lahiri Mahasaya

* Chapter 36: Babaji's Interest in the West

* Chapter 37: I Go to America

* Chapter 38: Luther Burban

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