Autobiography of a Yogi

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The Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 860 pages
The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation. The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book: "Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended with priceless superphysical information-much needed to balance the Western material efficiency with Eastern spiritual efficiency-come from the vigorous pen of Paramhansa Yogananda, whose teachings my husband and myself have had the pleasure of studying for twenty years."
 

Contents

Chapter 25 Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
383
Chapter 26 The Science of Kriya Yoga
393
Chapter 27 Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi
407
Chapter 28 Kashi Reborn and Rediscovered
422
Chapter 29 Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
430
Chapter 30 The Law of Miracles
438
Chapter 31 An Interview with the Sacred Mother
458
Chapter 32 Rama is Raised from the Dead
476

Chapter 7 The Levitating Saint
106
Chapter 8 Indias Great Scientist JC Bose
115
Chapter 9 The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
129
Chapter 10 I Meet My Master Sri Yukteswar
142
Chapter 11 Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
161
Chapter 12 Years in My Masters Hermitage
177
Chapter 13 The Sleepless Saint
230
Chapter 14 An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
243
Chapter 15 The Cauliflower Robbery
255
Chapter 16 Outwitting the Stars
273
Chapter 17 Sasi and the Three Sapphires
289
Chapter 18 A Mohammedan WonderWorker
301
Chapter 19 My Master in Calcutta Appears in Serampore
312
Chapter 20 We Do Not Visit Kashmir
319
Chapter 21 We Visit Kashmir
329
Chapter 22 The Heart of a Stone Image
346
Chapter 23 I Receive My University Degree
358
Chapter 24 I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
371
Chapter 33 Babaji the YogiChrist of Modern India
491
Chapter 34 Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
505
Chapter 35 The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
527
Chapter 36 Babajis Interest in the West
546
Chapter 37 I Go to America
564
Chapter 38 Luther BurbankmdashA Saint Amidst the Roses
580
Chapter 39 Therese Neumann the Catholic Stigmatist
590
Chapter 40 I Return to India
605
Chapter 41 An Idyl in South India
619
Chapter 42 Last Days with My Guru
640
Chapter 43 The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
665
Chapter 44 With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
698
Chapter 45 The Bengali JoyPermeated Mother
727
Chapter 46 The Woman Yogi who Never Eats
737
Chapter 47 I Return to the West
757
Chapter 48 At Encinitas in California
765
Endnotes
779
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