Biography & Memoir Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
📣 Steve Jobs: Reread it every year; copies were handed out at his memorial
A boy in Bengal goes looking for a guru and finds saints, miracles and a mission to the West. The 1946 memoir that brought meditation to millions, Steve Jobs among them.
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My Parents and Early Life My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet The Saint With Two Bodies My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas A “perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders India’s Great Scientist, J.C. Bose The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban Years in My Master’s Hermitage An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness Sasi and the Three Sapphires A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore The Heart of a Stone Image I Receive My University Degree I Become a Monk of the Swami Order Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini The Science of Kriya Yoga Founding a Yoga School At Ranchi Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools An Interview With the Sacred Mother Rama Is Raised From the Dead Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya Babaji’s Interest in the West Luther Burbank—a Saint Amidst the Roses Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha The Bengali “joy-Permeated” Mother The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats At Encinitas in California