Autobiography of a Yogi

Yogananda (Paramahansa)

Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971 - Health & Fitness - 516 pages

This audio edition contains the complete text of Paramahansa Yogananda's life story. Selected as "One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century," 'Autobiography of a Yogi' has been translated into 20 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 fifty consecutive years in print. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages. This audio book version is given an inspired reading by Academy Award-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley.

Contents

• Chapter: 3
• Mothers Death and the Amulet: 15
• The Saint with Two Bodies Swami Pranabananda: 29

About the author

Swami Yogananda, a young Hindu monk, delivered his first address, "The Science of Religion," to the International Congress of Religious Liberals meeting in Boston on October 6, 1920. He remained in America and began to attract thousands to his public lectures. In 1925, Yogananda established the headquarters of his organization, the Self-Realization Fellowship, on Mount Washington in Los Angeles. (One of his most distinguished disciples was the horticulturist Luther Burbank.) His Autobiography of a Yogi Autobiography of a Yogi was published in 1946 and has been translated into 18 languages. Yogananda and the Self-Realization Fellowship have been the means by which many Americans have been introduced to and have adopted Hindu modes of thought and religious practice. Yogananda taught that Hindu mysticism was compatible with and similar to Western and Christian mysticism. In 1935 his guru gave Yogananda the title Paramahansa, which means "supreme swan" and is a title indicating the highest spiritual attainment. His disciples regard the manner of Yogananda's death---he expired immediately after addressing a banquet in honor of the ambassador from India---as a demonstration of his supreme yogic bodily control. The Self-Realization Fellowship continues to be an important alternative religion in America, and it has a strong institutional presence in and around the Los Angeles area.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Autobiography of a Yogi
• Author: Yogananda (Paramahansa)
• Edition: 11, illustrated
• Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jul 26, 2008
• ISBN: 0876120753, 9780876120750
• Length: 516 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Yoga