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Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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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

The Tiger Swami

The Levitating Saint

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

The Sleepless Saint

An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness

The Cauliflower Robbery

Outwitting the Stars

Sasi and the Three Sapphires

A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker

My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore

We Do Not Visit Kashmir

We Visit Kashmir

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

The Law of Miracles

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

I Go To America

Luther Burbank—a Saint Amidst the Roses

Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist

I Return To India

An Idyl in South India

Last Days With My Guru

The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar

With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha

The Bengali “joy-Permeated” Mother

The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats

I Return To the West

At Encinitas in California

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