Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Original 1946 EditionThe value of Yogananda'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. It is a book about yogis by a yogi. As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless. This 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.
Preface: By W. Y. Evans-Wentz
Chapter 01: My Parents and Early Life
Chapter 02: My Mother's Death and the Mystic Amulet
Chapter 03: The Saint With Two Bodies
Chapter 04: My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
Chapter 05: A "Perfume Saint" Displays His Wonders
Chapter 06: The Tiger Swami
Chapter 07: The Levitating Saint
Chapter 08: India's Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
Chapter 09: The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
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
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
Chapter 19: My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
Chapter 20: We Do Not Visit Kashmir
Chapter 21: We Visit Kashmir
Chapter 22: The Heart of a Stone Image
Chapter 23: I Receive 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 a Yoga School in 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
Chapter 32: Rama is Raised From the Dead
Chapter 33: Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
Chapter 34: Materializing a Palace in the Himalaya
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 - A Saint Amidst the Roses
Chapter 39: Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
Chapter 40: I Return to India
Chapter 41: An Idyl in South India
Chapter 42: Last Days With My Guru
Chapter 43: The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
Chapter 44: With Mahatma Gandhi in Wardha
Chapter 45: The Bengali "Joy-Permeated" Mother
Chapter 46: The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
Chapter 47: I Return to the West
Chapter 48: At Encinitas in CaliforniaNote: This 1946 version is in the public domain.
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Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda