Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramhansa Yogananda
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Autobiography of a YOGI, by Paramhansa Yogananda

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Title: Autobiography of a YOGI
Author: Paramhansa Yogananda
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[Frontispiece: PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA--see py.jpg]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI By Paramhansa Yogananda
WITH A PREFACE BY W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc.
"EXCEPT YE SEE SIGNS AND WONDERS, YE WILL NOT BELIEVE."-John 4:48.
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF LUTHER BURBANK An American Saint
[Illustration: Map of India--see map.gif]
Contents
Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ List of Illustrations
Chapter
1.
My Parents and Early Life 2. Mother's Death and the Amulet 3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda) 4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya 5. A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders 6. The Tiger Swami 7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri) 8. India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose 9. The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya) 10. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar 11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban 12. Years in my Master's Hermitage 13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar) 14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness 15. The Cauliflower Robbery 16. Outwitting the Stars 17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires 18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan) 19. My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore 20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir 21. We Visit Kashmir 22. The Heart of a Stone Image 23. My University Degree 24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order 25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini 26. The Science of Kriya Yoga 27. Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi 28. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered 29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools 30. The Law of Miracles 31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri) 32. Rama is Raised from the Dead 33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India 34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas 35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya 36. Babaji's Interest in the West 37. I Go to America 38. Luther Burbank--An American Saint 39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria 40. I Return to India 41. An Idyl in South India 42. Last Days with my Guru 43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar 44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha 45. The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma) 46. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala) 47. I Return to the West 48. At Encinitas in California

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
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