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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. This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of our time. The quality paperback edition offered here includes a bonus CD, The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda, featuring excerpts from the Self-Realization Fellowship Collector's Series of rare recorded talks by Paramahansa Yogananda, and includes 80 quality archival photographs.
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Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Sri Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2011. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world.
--This text refers to the
Mass Market Paperback
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Eye Opener,
By M. Austin (SW Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Autobiography of a Yogi (Hardcover)
I love this book. It's a book that I read in a short amount of time, because I could not put it down. In parts it weaves eastern mysticism with the Bible. I loved it so much that I signed up with the Self Realization Fellowship for the lessons. So I can learn how to do the Kriya yoga meditation that's mentioned in the book.
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The Skeptic's Thanks,
By Alice Ann Marinelli (Manalapan, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Autobiography of a Yogi (Paperback)
It is no small feat to admit that this book changed my life, but in many ways, it has. I've never been a so-called spiritual person, nor a great believer in anything mystical, or beyond what most of us consider reality; being a non-practicing Catholic for a number of years, I have since become somewhat of a convert. It is due in part to a conscious searching for something higher, but I consider Paramhansa Yogananda's magnificent autobiography the greatest catalyst in my newly established path to spiritual freedom. It is a great mind opener, it is entertaining and, I believe, accessible to anyone willing to listen. I am practicing yoga almost every day now and I am going to church again. I have found something better than what society considers the most desirable rewards. I have found the deeper meaning of love and I encourage people to set aside their skepticism, take a chance, and learn about the meaning of life.
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Best book I've ever read,
By Guruji's child (Portland.OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Autobiography of a Yogi (Mass Market Paperback) (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book when I was very small.I was highly impressed with it.I am 23 now and still I'm in love with it,I joined YSS\SRF 8 years back and have been initiated with Kriya Yoga. Read this book and fall in love with GOD and GURUJI(Paramahansa Yogananda). MAY GOD BLESS US ALL.
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