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Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) Paperback – January 5, 1998

by Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)

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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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This book is a must-read for the budding yogi, the spiritual veteran looking for a deeper understanding, and everyone in between... --Yogi Times<br \><br \>One book in particular stayed with Steve Jobs his entire life, Autobiography of a Yogi...'the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager, then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.' --Huffington Post, review of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs

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

About the Author

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 for more than 30 years he taught the ancient science of meditation and the art of balanced spiritual living. That same year 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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Paperback: 596 pages
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship; Reprint edition (January 5, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0876120796
ISBN-13: 978-0876120798
Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 1.1 x 7.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2,149 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts
- #1 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Eastern > Indian
- #3 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism

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I have long enjoyed and learned from reading the great Indian spiritual writers

ByDeborah Halteron June 24, 2016

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As an instructor of world religions, I have long enjoyed and learned from reading the great Indian spiritual writers, whether their commentaries on Vedic literature or their own autobiographies. Paramahansa Yogananda's autobiography is a splendid work guaranteed to hold the interested reader in rapt attention.

One feature of this work that I especially appreciate is its humor. The yogi is self-effacing and wry, and he approaches profoundly spiritual and meaningful subjects and experiences with a lightness of heart that keeps his narrative on the earthly plane even while inspiring the reader to transcend mundane realities. The text presents the timeless teachings of ancient India in a way that is accessible and attractive to a modern Western reader.

Paramahansa Yogananda was truly an enlightened soul who sought guidance from truth-tellers, whether his own mentors or the divine. In his commentary on the New Testament, he wrote that the teachings of Jesus Christ "reveal the perfect unity that exists among the revelations of the Christian Bible, the Bhagavad Gita of India, and all other time-tested true scriptures." In his trademark gentle way, Paramahansa Yogananda reverenced the teachings of all who spoke truth and taught love.

Through this autobiography, we learn not only about the life and teaching of Paramahansa Yogananda but also of yogis and others who directly mentored or otherwise inspired him -- Nagendra Nath Bhaduri ("The Levitating Saint"), J.C. Bose, Ram Gopal Muzumdar ("The Sleepless Saint"), Babaji (The "Yogi-Christ of Modern India"), Therese Neumann ("The Catholic Stigmatist") and many others. And through the many characters introduced to us in these pages, we learn the wisdom of the Indian ages.

This book (and other worthy titles) comes from the Self-Realization Fellowship, which the author founded in 1920s. This particular edition is the one to buy, because it includes the author's additions to the original 1946 edition and other elements not in the first edition.

This book is to my spirit what a cool swim is on a hot summer day. I revel in its refreshment and revivification.

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Good but the original version with the blue cover better

ByMamazonon March 16, 2016

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It's hard to give this book less than 5 stars because I highly recommend it and it can completely change your life. I originally read the version with the blue cover which I found out later is apparently the one that wasn't edited after Yogananda's death. Many years later I repurchased this red cover version because it came with the free CD and I figured.. how different can it be? Well, it is very different. The pictures are different. It has more recent pictures of what is apparently the newer leaders of SRF after Yogananda's death. Some of the amazing older pics from the original book were removed which is just heartbreaking for me. I can tell it just isn't the same vibration. I wasn't getting the same feel. So a few days into it, I put the book down and just bit the bullet, got over my penny pinching self, and re-ordered the blue version. I would say, if you are interested more in the SRF organization, buy this one. If you want the more original version that Yogananda himself wrote, get the blue one. The blue version is also free online, I downloaded it, but nothing like having a book in your hands. Especially one that has a healing vibrational quality to it.

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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE THAT HAS BEEN TESTED BY TIME AND STILL ENDURES

ByBonnie Press-Harrisonon December 29, 2015

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A dynamic & inspirational story about the life of yogis written by a yogi. There is no way to do justice to this autobiography, a book written for the western world leading us into the depths of a spiritual & super natural view of existence. Over five hundred pages take us deep into the Hindu mind and heart. A journey through a life that touched every subject relating to man's spiritualism versus materialism. A life changing recount of this yogi's life, where humor, good sense, and bright inspiring stories take us along with him. Coming to the USA in the 1920's, Paramhansa Yogananda brought his spiritual teachings to a very different world than the one he came from. He traveled the country finding large enthusiastic audiences receptive to his spiritual lessons. One would have to write a book to review this story and then it couldn't begin to speak of it's impact and effect.

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ByNicole J Barretton June 7, 2016

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This book is life changing in that it opens your eyes to your short comings and your allegiances to sense pleasures and egotisms. My spiritual vocabulary increased as a result of reading this book and my desire to live a more Godfilled life also increased. I don't think there's a way to read this book and not yearn for a guru or long to learn kriya yoga. One also aims to exit the karmic wheel of illusory life and find whatever metaphysical magic still exists in this weary world where millions are without a guru to lead them to their best selves.

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