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Contents [ edit ].

• 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 Burbank--An American Saint
• Chapter 39: Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria
• Chapter 40: I Return to India
• Chapter 41: An Idyll in South India
• Chapter 42: Last Days with my Guru
• Chapter 43: The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
• Chapter 44: With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
• Chapter 45: The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma)
• Chapter 46: The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
• Chapter 47: I Return to the West
• Chapter 48: At Encinitas in California

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Table of Contents

• 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

I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar

Two penniless boys in brindaban.

• 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

About two years after founding the Ranchi school, I received...

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Trailanga Swami

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My Transformational Fast

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My Sister Nalini

Soon after Ananta’s passing, my younger sister Nalini was brought...

My Saintly Parents

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Lahiri Mahasaya’s Enigmatic Photograph

One of my most precious possessions is that same photograph....

What Is Behind the Darkness of Closed Eyes?

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What makes autobiography of a yogi so great.

Adapted from an answer on Quora by Nabha Cosley • January 9, 2016

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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