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Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda in India, and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West.
The book begins with his childhood family life, school and friends; continues with Paramahansa Yogananda's journeys to find his guru. Then, it presents his life as a monk, and how he established his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation.
The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California.
In 1935 he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book.

To Download the Book in PDF format, click: Autobiography of a Yogi - e-book (2.7 MB)

To Download the Book in Audio, MP3 format, click: Autobiography of a Yogi - Audio (241 MB)

Table of Contents

My Parents and Early Life
Mother's Death and the Amulet
The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya
A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders
The Tiger Swami
The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose
The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
Years in my Master's Hermitage
The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
The Cauliflower Robbery
Outwitting the Stars
Sasi and the Three Sapphires
A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)
My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore
We Do Not Visit Kashmir
We Visit Kashmir
The Heart of a Stone Image
My University Degree
I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
The Science of Kriya Yoga
Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi
Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
The Law of Miracles
An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
Rama is Raised from the Dead
Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
Babaji's Interest in the West
I Go to America
Luther Burbank -- An American Saint
Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria
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" (Ananda Moyi Ma)
The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
I Return to the West
At Encinitas in California
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda

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