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Table of Contents

  • 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 in 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 Himalaya
  • 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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Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda talks about miracles, the yogic teachings, and the teachings of Jesus Christ in a modern way — a way that is easy to understand and even entertaining. For someone interested in spirituality, or even just alternate ways of looking at life, it’s incredibly illuminating.

The world is a different place than it would have been without this book. The New Age movement in the West, the impact the book has had on leaders in many fields, and the rise in the practice of yoga and meditation are due in large part to Yogananda’s influence and the influence of his autobiography.

Philip Goldberg wrote in American Veda that “Among the people I interviewed about their key spiritual influences, a high percentage named a book, and by far the book most often mentioned was Yogananda’s unique memoir. A distant second was Be Here Now by Ram Dass, and he mentioned the Autobiography .”

Sometimes people read it and have their life turned around entirely. It’s a book that, like other scripture, inspires life-long devotion.

Anyone who is interested should read it. It is a great book in every sense of the word.

“As a bright light shining in the midst of darkness, so was Yogananda’s presence in this world. Such a great soul comes on earth only rarely, when there is a real need among men.”

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2021-22 marks the 75th anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi , one of the world’s most acclaimed spiritual classics.

Welcome to the page dedicated to the life story of Paramahansa Yogananda. This book has touched the hearts and minds of millions around the globe. For over seven decades, this book has introduced countless readers to India’s ancient science of Yoga and to the scientific methods for attaining God-realization that are India’s unique and lasting contribution to world civilization.

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first appearance in print in 1946, the Autobiography has continuously been on spiritual bestseller lists and read by spiritual aspirants of various paths. The book was honoured in 1999 as one of “100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century.”

Due to continued and expanding interest, the book has been translated and published in 15 major Indian subcontinental languages and more than fifty languages worldwide.

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The writing of the work had been prophesied long ago. One of the seminal figures in the renaissance of yoga in modern times, the revered nineteenth-century master Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya , had foretold: “About fifty years after my passing, an account of my life will be written because of a deep interest in yoga that will arise in the West. The message of yoga will encircle the globe. It will aid in establishing the brotherhood of man: a unity based on humanity’s direct perception of the One Father.”

Many years later, Lahiri Mahasaya’s exalted disciple Swami Sri Sri Yukteswar related this prophecy to Sri Sri Yogananda. 

A profound assurance

In the book’s final chapter, Paramahansa Yogananda writes:

“God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasonings, offer solace to the human heart? Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy.”

It is our hope that you will find your own soul opening to a deeper faith in the transcendent Truth of India’s sages. And that faith sustains you through trials, and in the pursuit of true happiness and fulfilment.

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Autobiography of a Yogi  is an immensely gratifying spiritual read that has altered and enriched the lives of millions across the world, since it was first published in 1946. An originative text that tells the story of Paramhansa Yogananda, this book has been revered for its memorable, incisive and instructive teachings. This spiritual autobiography will take you on an incredible journey of Indian mysticism and spirituality and deliver humbling, comforting truths about life and existence.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paramahansa Yoganandaborn is not only famous among the Indians but also popular among the westerners as a great Yogi. He teaches millions of people mediation and Kriya Yoga through his master piece Autobiography of a Yogi. At the age of 17, in the year 1910, he found his guru Swami Yukteswar Giri. Yogananda graduated with a B.A. from the Serampore College, and in 1915 took vows to join the Swami Order. Here, he was given the name Swami Yogananda Giri. The Yogi established the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in Ranchi. In 1920, he was sent to Boston to attend the International Congress of Religious Liberals. He lived in America for the next thirty years (1920-1952), and taught the soul-awakening techniques of Kriya Yoga to many people.

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Register Now for a Week of Spiritual Renewal and Recharging! July 14 – 20

Online & in-person, an immersion in the teachings of paramahansa yogananda.

Join us — online or in Los Angeles — for the SRF World Convocation, a weeklong program of classes on Paramahansa Yogananda’s “how-to-live” teachings and meditation techniques, guided group meditations and kirtans (devotional chanting), pilgrimage tours to the ashrams where the great Guru lived and communed with the Divine, and more. During the week of Convocation, SRF monastics will also be visiting SRF centers and groups in Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America, and South America.

Please visit the Convocation website at the link below to view the full 2024 SRF World Convocation schedule and to register.

Convocation offered free of charge — donations welcome!

We will be offering attendance at this year’s Convocation free of charge to ensure that all who wish to participate can do so.

While the costs associated with hosting Convocation are not insignificant, we are confident that, through the generosity of those SRF members and friends who are able to help, there will be sufficient support to make this possible. We welcome and are deeply grateful for all donations, which can be made at the time of registration and during the event.

Subtitling and Guided Meditations in Multiple Languages

All classes and main events will be conducted in English. Subtitles in various languages will be added to the videos of the classes as soon as possible after they are streamed. Additionally, guided meditations with technique reviews (for SRF/YSS Lessons students) will be conducted in German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Autobiography of a Yogi — Hardback

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A spiritual classic. Named one of the 100 best spiritual books of the twentieth century.

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Deluxe 75th Anniv. edition: $49       eBook: $2.99     Paperback: $8.50       Quality Paperback: $16.00       Large Print Edition: $39.00       Audio Edition: $48.00       Audible (audio edition): $33.60     iTunes (audio edition): $11.95

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Named one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, Paramahansa Yogananda ’ s remarkable life story takes you on an unforgettable exploration of the world of saints and yogis, science and miracles, death and resurrection.

With soul-satisfying wisdom and endearing wit, he illuminates the deepest secrets of life and the universe — opening our hearts and minds to the joy, beauty, and unlimited spiritual potentials that exist in the lives of every human being.

This complete edition — available exclusively from Self-Realization Fellowship, the organization founded by the author — is the only one that incorporates all of his wishes for the final text including extensive material he added after the 1946 first edition and a final chapter on the closing years of his life.

SRF ebook editions of Autobiography of a Yogi are now available:

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