He notes that Yogananda was the collator of the testimonials that purport to validate the miracles described, which appear at a rate of around one per page. 33.

Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family.

The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book.

The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba.

Before becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasayas actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri.

The book begins by describing Yoganandas childhood family life to his search for his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, 7 to the establishment of his first school, Yogoda Satsanga Brahmacharya Vidyalaya 8 to his journey to America where he lectured to thousands, 9 established Self-Realization Fellowship 10 and visited with Luther Burbank, 11 a renowned botanist to whom this book is dedicated.

The book then takes you on Yoganandas return visit to India in 1935 where he encountered leading spiritual figures such as Therese Neumann 12 13 in Bavaria, the Hindu saint Ananda Moyi Ma, 14 Mahatma Gandhi, 15 Rabindranath Tagore, 16 Nobel Prize -winning physicist Sir C.

V. Raman, 17 and Giri Bala, the woman yogi who never eats.

The reader then returns to the West with Yogananda where he continues to establish his teachings in America including writing this book.

In the preface he wrote, 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.

The yogic message will encircle the globe, and aid in establishing that brotherhood of man which results from direct perception of the One Father.

In 1945 fifty years after Lahiri Mahasayas passing in 1895, the Autobiography was complete and ready for publication.

It has sold more than four million copies and counting.

Autobiography of a Yogi is the most popular of Yoganandas books and SRF has published the book into over fifty languages.

Jobs first read Autobiography of a Yogi as a teenager, then re-read the book...

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, told his story of attending Steve Jobs memorial service, where the attendees were handed a small brown box on their way out.

I knew that this was a decision he made, and whatever it was, it was the last thing he wanted us all to think about.

A few days before we left, he gave me a copy of the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

Needless to say the book inspired me deeply, and I became totally fascinated with Indian culture and philosophy.

He left a copy of the book behind in a Nashville hotel room on 21 January 1977.

Later on this book was auctioned off with a letter of authenticity 29.

She was mesmerized by the Autobiography of a Yogi and loved the whole great Hindu tradition of spiritual seeking.

Evans says that Because of Dennis I took the first step in what would become a life long spiritual journey.

He mentioned reading the Autobiography of a Yogi which he said, awakened in me an interest in yoga and Indian religious philosophies.

He continued, It is filled with wondrous tales from an exotic land, none more amazing than that of Giri Bala, a woman yogi who never eats.

Srinivas Aravamudan has described its contents as miracle-infested territory whose single most memorable feature.

He notes that Yogananda was the collator of the testimonials that purport to validate the miracles described, which appear at a rate of around one per page.

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