Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda (also spelled Paramhansa Yogonanda):By W. Evans-Wentz: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.
What Makes Autobiography of a Yogi So Great?Adapted from an answer on Quora by Nabha Cosley. January 9, 2016A book about masters of yoga and saints, written by someone who was himself a master of yoga and a saint. This is an unusual and unique book.Autobiography of a Yogi 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.
My Parents and Early Life. Mother's Death. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala).
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.
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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.