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Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) Kindle Edition

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Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages.

Self-Realization Fellowship's editions, and none others, include extensive material added by the author after the first edition was published, including a final chapter on the closing years of his life.

Selected as "One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century", Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into more than 30 languages, and is regarded worldwide as a classic of religious literature. Several million copies have been sold, and it continues to appear on best-seller lists after more than sixty consecutive years in print.

With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. His absorbing life story becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence.

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Fabulous stories from his life keep the reader inspired, informed, and thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. --Yoga Journal

Fabulous stories from his life keep the reader inspired, informed, and thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. --Yoga Journal

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Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Sri Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2011. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JW44IAI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Self-Realization Fellowship (22 April 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 27951 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 606 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0876120796

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1893 – 1952 Hailed as the “father of Yoga in the West,” Paramahansa Yogananda is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Born in northern India, he came to the United States in 1920, where he founded Self-Realization Fellowship, to disseminate his writings and teachings worldwide. Through his best-selling classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, and his numerous other books, he has introduced millions throughout the world to the spiritual principles of yoga meditation and the universal truths underlying all world religions.

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James Ray

How can I tell how Yogananda, my divine Guru, has truly changed my life

Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2024

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How can I tell how Yogananda, my divine Guru, has truly changed my life. I simply can't. His guidance, inspiration, teachings and spiritual path have uplifted my life to an incredible extent, and my heart sings with gratitude for the many blessings that have filled my life ever since I was introduced to his teachings in late 2010. Too many of those experiences are so personal and sacred that I shall not divulge them.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 December 2023

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Essential reading for the true seeker. Good quality paperback that makes a lovely gift.

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patricia abell

I highly recommend all seekers of spiritual truth to read this autobiography of a Yogi

Reviewed in Australia on 16 May 2023

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After reading this book I have been inspired to join the Self Realisation Fellowship and send for the lessons . Many videos are also available on YouTube on his life and teachings including many inspirational talks by the ordained monks and nuns

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YesIBoughtThis

A spiritual gem! A must read!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 May 2021

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This is a book one reads and keeps to be able to read and form a deeper understanding over the course of ones life.
It is essentially a gateway into the spiritual truths that Paramahansa Yogananda lived by and shared with the world by writing masterpieces and living by example.
This book is a must for any spiritual seeker.

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bageshri tapodhan

Life transforming

Reviewed in Australia on 25 August 2018

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life changing book for me. opened my eyes to possibilities I never imagined to be real... and at the same time compelled me to question a lot of my long held beliefs that I hadn't ever thought about consciously before. it gave me meaning for life and also a path to the destination. very grateful to Paramahansa Y and to SRF/ YSS for disseminating his words and blessings.

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Pragya

Life changing

Reviewed in Australia on 17 April 2021

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This book changed my life for ever and for better.

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Gus Augustine

Fast delivery. Good book

Reviewed in Australia on 12 May 2021

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Fast delivery. Good book

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BuyerD

Inspiration. All else fantasy disconnected from modern life living.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 July 2016

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Yes, it got me into Kriya yoga only to realize Kriya yoga too is only meant to purify the mind, like hundreds of other practices like Tai Chi Chuan, japa, Hatha Yoga, Asthanga Yoga, Raja Yoga, etc.

Is it answer to liberation? Firstly, the word "liberation" hasn't even been defined. For that reason, it leaves readers mind open to fantasizing. Good for inspiration only. Otherwise, still dvaita (dualistic teaching) that'll lead to continued seeking.

But I must give credit this book was greatest spiritual inspiration, only to made me realize entire world of Yoga is dvaita, whose aim is to purify the mind. But most turn it into the END, thinking it's about samadhi (doesn't matter whether we're talking savikalpa or nirvikalpa, it's still a time-bound experience).

The book has no power to remove beginningless ignorance which causes person to place the "I" into body-mind. Neither is Kriya Yoga intended for this purpose.

Remember: Kriya Yoga is MEANS. Not the END.

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M. Grecu

Life changing

Reviewed in the United States on 20 May 2024

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I read this book 15 years ago and I am grateful for being written because it opened my eyes in many ways.

andrea CC

Very Good Read Spiritual & Inspirational

Reviewed in Canada on 31 March 2024

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This is a book that makes you think. You need to take your time to read it. I am still reading it.
It is very spiritual and at the back of the book is the contact for Self Realization Group. They have free meditation videos on youtube from this group. Enjoy. This book will change your life.

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