Autobiography of a Yogi eBook

ILLUSTRATIONS

  Frontispiece
  Map of India
  My Father, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh
  My Mother
  Swami Pranabananda, “The Saint With Two Bodies”
  My Elder Brother, Ananta
  Festival Gathering in the Courtyard of my Guru’s Hermitage in
    Serampore
  Nagendra Nath Bhaduri, “The Levitating Saint”
  Myself at Age 6
  Jagadis Chandra Bose, Famous Scientist
  Two Brothers of Therese Neumann, at Konnersreuth
  Master Mahasaya, the Blissful Devotee
  Jitendra Mazumdar, my Companion on the “Penniless Test” at Brindaban
  Ananda Moyi Ma, the “Joy-Permeated Mother”
  Himalayan Cave Occupied by Babaji
  Sri Yukteswar, My Master
  Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles Headquarters
  Self-Realization Church of All Religions, Hollywood
  My Guru’s Seaside Hermitage at Puri
  Self-Realization Church of All Religions, San Diego
  My Sisters—­Roma, Nalini, and Uma
  My Sister Uma
  The Lord in His Aspect as Shiva
  Yogoda Math, Hermitage at Dakshineswar
  Ranchi School, Main Building
  Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
  Bishnu, Motilal Mukherji, my Father, Mr. Wright, T.N.  Bose, Swami
    Satyananda
  Group of Delegates to the International Congress of Religious
    Liberals, Boston, 1920
  A Guru and Disciple in an Ancient Hermitage
  Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
  Lahiri Mahasaya
  A Yoga Class in Washington, D.C. 
  Luther Burbank
  Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, Bavaria
  The Taj Mahal at Agra
  Shankari Mai Jiew, Only Living Disciple of the great Trailanga Swami
  Krishnananda with his Tame Lioness
  Group on the Dining Patio of my Guru’s Serampore Hermitage
  Miss Bletch, Mr. Wright, and myself—­in Egypt
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Swami Keshabananda, at his Hermitage in Brindaban
  Krishna, Ancient Prophet of India
  Mahatma Gandhi, at Wardha
  Giri Bala, the Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
  Mr. E. E. Dickinson
  My Guru and Myself
  Ranchi Students
  Encinitas
  Conference in San Francisco
  Swami Premananda
  My Father

PREFACE

  By W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc. 
  Jesus College, Oxford; Author of
  the Tibetan book of the dead,
  TIBET’S great yogi MILAREPA,
  Tibetan yoga and secret doctrines, etc.

The value of Yogananda’s AUTOBIOGRAPHYis greatly enhanced by the fact that it is one of the few books in English about the wise men of India which has been written, not by a journalist or foreigner, but by one of their own race and training—­in short, a book about yogis by a yogi.  As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless.  To its illustrious author, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing both in India and America, may every reader render due appreciation and gratitude.  His unusual life-document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West.