Autobiography of a Yogi

Yoga teacher Paramahansa Yogananda recounts his own life, from a childhood in a Bengali Hindu family in Gorakhpur, India, through his search for a guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, ten years of training in his hermitage, and life as a monk. The narrative moves to America in 1920, when he spoke at a religious congress in Boston, then lectured across the country and founded the Self-Realization Fellowship. During a return visit to India in 1935 he meets Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and the physicist C. V. Raman. Throughout, he presents Kriya Yoga meditation and the laws he believes govern both everyday events and miracles. It was first published in 1946.

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