The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation. The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book: "e;Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended with priceless superphysical information-much needed to balance the Western material efficiency with Eastern spiritual efficiency-come from the vigorous pen of Paramhansa Yogananda, whose teachings my husband and myself have had the pleasure of studying for twenty years."e;

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- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI
- Contents
- Preface
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - My Parents and Early Life
- Chapter 2 - My Mother's Death and the Mystic Amule…
- Chapter 3 - The Saint with Two Bodies
- Chapter 4 - My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himal…
- Chapter 5 - A "Perfume Saint" Displays His…
- Chapter 6 - The Tiger Swami
- Chapter 7 - The Levitating Saint
- Chapter 8 - India's Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
- Chapter 9 - The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Ro…
- Chapter 10 - I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
- Chapter 11 - Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
- Chapter 12 - Years in My Master's Hermitage
- Chapter 13 - The Sleepless Saint
- Chapter 14 - An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
- Chapter 15 - The Cauliflower Robbery
- Chapter 16 - Outwitting the Stars
- Chapter 17 - Sasi and the Three Sapphires
- Chapter 18 - A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
- Chapter 19 - My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Se…
- Chapter 20 - We Do Not Visit Kashmir
- Chapter 21 - We Visit Kashmir
- Chapter 22 - The Heart of a Stone Image
- Chapter 23 - I Receive My University Degree
- Chapter 24 - I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
- Chapter 25 - Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
- Chapter 26 - The Science of Kriya Yoga
- Chapter 27 - Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi
- Chapter 28 - Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
- Chapter 29 - Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Sch…
- Chapter 30 - The Law of Miracles
- Chapter 31 - An Interview with the Sacred Mother
- Chapter 32 - Rama is Raised from the Dead
- Chapter 33 - Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern Ind…
- Chapter 34 - Materializing a Palace in the Himalay…
- Chapter 35 - The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasay…
- Chapter 36 - Babaji's Interest in the West
- Chapter 37 - I Go to America
- Chapter 38 - Luther Burbank&mdashA Saint Amidst th…
- Chapter 39 - Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmat…
- Chapter 40 - I Return to India
- Chapter 41 - An Idyl in South India
- Chapter 42 - Last Days with My Guru
- Chapter 43 - The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
- Chapter 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
- Chapter 45 - The Bengali "Joy-Permeated" M…
- Chapter 46 - The Woman Yogi who Never Eats
- Chapter 47 - I Return to the West
- Chapter 48 - At Encinitas in California
- Endnotes