His unusual life-document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West. To its illustrious author, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing both in India and America, may every reader render due appreciation and gratitude. As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless. The value of YoganandaвЂ™s Autobiography is greatly enhanced by the fact that it is one of the few books in English about the wise men of India which has been written, not by a journalist or foreigner, but by one of their own race and trainingвЂ“in short, a book about yogis by a yogi. Jesus College, Oxford Author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, TibetвЂ™s Great Yogi Milarepa, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, etc. Reprint of the Philosophical Library 1946 First EditionДЈ The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)Д¤ My Interrupted Flight Toward the HimalayaД§ The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)ДЁ IndiaвЂ™s Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra BoseД© The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)ДЎ3 The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)ДЎ8 A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)ДЎ9 My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and SeramporeДЎ Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare SchoolsДЈ An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)ДҐ Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern IndiaД¦ Materializing a Palace in the HimalayasДЎ1 Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of BavariaДЎ7 The Bengali вЂњJoy-Permeated MotherвЂќ (Ananda Moyi Ma)ДЎ8 The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)Д«y W. вЂњExcept ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.вЂќ-John 4:48.Дedicated To The Memory Of LUTHER BURBANK An American Saint This book has 48 chapters, Total length 13 hours 47 minutes Please accept this recording in the spirit in which it was intended. We endeavored to get the correct pronunciation but was not always able to find a source to double check. Our sincere apologies for any mispronunciations in this narration. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. His mausoleum in California is deeply revered and visited by people whose lives have been touched by his teachings.Autobiography of a Yogi вЂ“ Paramhansa Yogananda / Chapter OneДЄudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. His body was kept in a Los Angeles mortuary, and even twenty days after his death, there were no signs of physical disintegration. The greatness of the Yogi can be measured from the manner of his entering Mahasamadhi on 7th March, 1952, on the historic occasion of the banquet held in honour of the then Indian Ambassador. The humble disciple with his simplifed explanations of divinity and miracles, linking Indian philosophy with Christian theosophy, paid a befitting tribute to his Guru and the mission he was entrusted with. During his journey, starting with a silver amulet, divinely delivered to his mother, he meets distinguished people like Mahendra Nath Gupta, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, and eminent scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose, culminating in his meeting his guru, Jnanavatar Sri Yukteshwara Giri in Benares. a of A lucid account, this autobiography traces the picaresque journey of a young Mukunda Lal Ghosh thirsting for divine knowledge. Thus, he penned a first- hand account of his life experiences in Autobiography of a Yogi. This he achieved most successfully during his stays in the United States of America from 1920 to 1952. Trained in mediration, the Scriptures and Kriya Yoga, Paramhansa Yogananda was sent by his teacher as an emissary to spread Oriental spiritual knowledge in the West. His parents and his Guru Jnanavatar Sri Yukteshwara Giti, were direct disciples of the eminent Sri Sri Lahiri Mahashay Benares, a divinely enlightened soul who propounded Kriya Yoga, the technique of attaining divinity through self-realisation. Sri Sri Paramhansa Yoganand, alsoknown as'Premavatar' was born to devout Bengali parents on 5th January, 1893, as the second son amongst eight childrcn.

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