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Autobiography of a Yogi Free Ebook FREEAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI EBOOK Paramahansa Yogananda | 516 pages | 28 Jun 2006 | Crystal Clarity,U.S. | 9781565892125 | English | California, United States Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda - Free, Original Edition Find Ananda Near You. Ananda Sangha Europa. Virtual Community. Treasures Along the Path. The Education for Life Philosophy. Living Wisdom K — 12 Schools. Table of Contents Chapter 1. My Parents and Early Life 2. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya 5. The Tiger Autobiography of a Yogi 7. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness The Cauliflower Robbery Outwitting the Stars Sasi and the Three Sapphires We Do Not Visit Kashmir We Visit Kashmir The Heart of a Stone Image My University Degree I Become a Monk of the Swami Order Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini The Science of Kriya Yoga Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools The Law of Miracles 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 I Go to America Luther Burbank — An American Saint Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria I Return to India An Idyl in South Autobiography of a Yogi Last Days with my Guru The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha I Return to the West At Encinitas in California. 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This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the Autobiography of a Yogi spiritual figures of our time. With engaging candor, Autobiography of a Yogi, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda narrates the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of our time. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda narrates the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life Autobiography of a Yogi the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. His absorbing life story thus becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence. Considered a modern spiritual classic, the book has been translated into more than twenty languages and is widely used as a text and reference work in colleges and universities. A perennial bestseller since it was first published sixty years ago, Autobiography of a Yogi has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Get A Copy. Paperback60th Anniversary, The Complete Editionpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign Autobiography of a Yogi. To ask other readers questions about Autobiography of a Yogiplease sign up. How could any one who has an atom of logical thinking believe so much miracles that this so called Yogi had talked about!!!!!! In my own opinion this is ridiculous???? Garry Jenness Study some of todays physics and you will not ridicule "so many miracles". Vikram CL Each soul has it's own purpose, based Autobiography of a Yogi his soul purpose he got attracted into spirituality and then became a monk. See all 12 questions about Autobiography of a Yogi…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Autobiography of a Yogi. Jun 20, Alok Mishra rated it it was amazing. Pretext: There are some self- satisfied people in the reviews section who thought it better to belittle this book. You crazy ones, do you even know what an autobiography means? It means sharing one's experiences, life-lessons, episodes and whatever you lived. Why are people craving for this one to be a book on Yoga, spirituality and then crying like wolves when they find it full of wonders and surprises. How can you experience what the author experienced? Are you close enough to give yourself up Pretext: There are some self-satisfied people in the reviews section who thought it better to belittle this book. Are you close enough to give yourself up to a world which is away of the confusions and connections that we have made today? This book is a journey of Swami Paramhansa Yogananda Ji's Autobiography of a Yogi and his experiences. He writes about his beginnings, his Gurus, the wonders he saw and the wonders he experienced. Already transformed the lives of many, this book simply inspires one to begin to open for wonders in life - the wonders of joy. If you remain in your shell and not allow any miracle to happen, you will always be self-satisfied and in pain of your being. Life has become horrendous if we don't look for an out. At least reading this one will transport you to other dimensions for some time. Post Script: I will only reply to sane comments. View all 15 comments. Nov 21, Shitikanth Kashyap rated it did not like it Shelves: could-not-finish. After painfully wading through fifty odd pages of what I consider to be lies or, at best, delusions of a typical Bengali :P megalomaniac, I decided to put this book down. I don't know what else I was expecting from a book of this genre. It was a mistake to pick it up in the first place. I absolutely fail to understand how learned, intelligent people can like this book so much. People apparating in and out of thin air! Someone willing himself out of photographs! Are you fucking kidding me! Am I After painfully wading through fifty odd pages of what I consider to be lies or, at best, delusions of a typical Autobiography of a Yogi :P megalomaniac, I decided to put this book down. Am I supposed to take these Autobiography of a Yogi on face value? Does Mukunda Ghosh mean us to take these miracles literally at all? If so, shouldn't I be seeking wisdom from someone less delusional? If not, are these stories supposed to have some hidden lessons? I Autobiography of a Yogi yet to decipher any Is the world as it is not beautiful and spiritually rich enough for him? Even if we leave the miracles out of the discussion for a moment, which is pretty difficult considering that they appear in the book at the rate of at least one per page, what IS the message that is hidden in this treasure of a book? Before you berate me for being close-minded, I do understand that there is a wonderful world outside of science. I appreciate beauty and art and wonder. I would even appreciate spirituality, but I have to hear about it from a person who can be honest about it to himself and to me. View all 75 comments. This has become my favorite book and since reading it, I have been reading and fully immersed in other books by Yogananda. Everyone would benefit by reading this book with an open mind, no matter what religious or spiritual beliefs you have, or even if you have no belief at all. Everything is possible! View 1 comment. Jun 13, P. Mazumdar rated it did not like it. This is not Yoga!! The first prerequisite for Yoga is to have Vidya, or an intellectual base arrived at by reasoning, though in the Autobiography of a Yogi culmination Vidya is left behind. Autobiography of a Yogi is an intelligent search for the truth. It doesnt depend on fanciful fables and claims. And Yogananda really does stretch our credulity!! It starts with him remembering himself as a fetus when he knew Autobiography of a Yogi languages and finally selected the one he was hearing as his mother tongue and his first memories right after he was bor This is not Yoga!! It starts with him remembering himself as a fetus when he knew all languages and finally selected the one he was hearing as his mother tongue and his first memories right after he Autobiography of a Yogi born. The claims keep getting more and more astonishing, beginning with minor Autobiography of a Yogi like controlling his kite as a child, to fantastical claims like Yogis who never eat, become invisible, fly through the air and do just about anything that Superman does, and much more! There's a photograph of Yogananda standing alone with a caption, "Yogananda standing with his master, who did not care to be photographed, so he made himself invisible.
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