Autobiography of a Yogi is a book which is considered as top 100 books on Spirituality in the 20th century. It is a biography of Shri Paramhansa Yogananda. Besides the biography of a yogi, it is one of the best books ever written on Spirituality. This book talks about Shri Yoganandaji's life events and events and gives the divine glimpses of many saints and yogis in the entire world.
Autobiography of a yogi- 12 Things you will learn from this fantastic book:
- Life of Paramhansa Yoanandaji.
- Life of Many Saints and Yogis. (Lahiri Mahasaya, Mahavatar Babaji, Yukteshwar Giri, and many more)
- It talks about real miracles that took place in front of many people.
- The book's best part discloses many extraordinary people's stories living their life in a complete ascetic way and are real-life heroes like Marvel and DC comics.
- The most significant achievement of this life is Sef-Realization.
- The only book to clear your doubts on science and magic of Spirituality.
- The future prediction ability of Yogis
- Life after death and resurrection of Sri Sri Yukteshwar Giri Maharaj.
- A reply to those who don't believe in "God".
- The idea of uniting science and Spirituality.
- Introduction to Mahavtaar Shri Babaji.
- To initialize one into Spirituality and inner science realization.
Autobiography of a yogi is a book I read when Sandeep Maheshwari introduced this book in his seminars when he took this book to understand Spirituality's profound aspect. You should check out his video.
This book is huge and has more than 45 chapters.
The chapter of autobiography of a yogi is as follows:
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 Himalayas
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
After this, I was inquisitive and was very eager to read this book, and I got this opportunity and read it in the first instant. The book is excellent and has many real stories, and it is more important that this is a non-fiction book.
Autobiography of a Yogi, in the initial chapters, was written on the life of Paramhansa Yogananda. Still, it will amaze you when you find a separate chapter on an Indian Scientist named Dr Jagdish Chandra Bose. It was one of the books written by a yogi, and an individual chapter is dedicated to Jagdish Bose.
His parents' life and childhood are covered and tell about early childhood and his life as a small kid.
The writer narrated many incidents when he met yogis and saints and people whose guru was Lahiri Mahasaya. His parents were too disciple of Shri Lahiri Mahasaya.
Swami Yoganandaji was very much attracted to the path of Spirituality. That led him to travel to the Himalayas and see the beauty of Kashmir. It is an exciting story, and one chapter is also dedicated to how he and his friend became penniless in Brindaban.
Talking about his meeting of great saints before he met his guru. Pramhansaji also talks about the stories and his experience of mystical and divine saints like Sleepless Saint, Saint with Two bodies, Tiger Swami, Levitating Saint, and many more.
He has also dedicated a separate chapter to a first meeting with the Sri Sri Yukteshwar Giri. The saint taught him about Spirituality and metaphysical science. He also initiated him into Self-Realization process and made him experience the cosmic consciousness. He wrote about it in detail in his chapter of "Years in My Master's Hermitage".
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The author also narrates how his guru makes him realized that his life is more than what he thinks! He makes him aware of the greatest joy of a person that is knowing and experiencing the god. The way he narrates this is amazing.
During his tenure at the hermitage, he learned about the super consciousness and got in touch with many colleagues. During this period he takes permission from his guru to obtain the degree from the university.
He also talks about how Kriya Yoga was spread in India by his guru's guru Lahiri Mahasaya. He talks about it in short and brief.
Later on, he describes his life in the United States. The life of Yoganandaji is full of divinity and Spirituality. This book is one of the best books of Spirituality.
Questions and Answers :
Q1] Is Autobiography of a Yogi true?
Answer: Yes. As it is a book a Non-Fiction book. The best answer to the question is given by Sandeep Maheshwari in one of his seminar.
Q2] Why is Autobiography of a Yogi famous?
Answer: It is famous because it was followed by greatest personalities of all time. This list includes Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajarsi Janakananda and most important the latest visit by President of India Ram Nath Kovind in 2017.
Q3] How is Autobiography of a Yogi?
Answer: Autobiography of a Yogi is a non-fiction book. It tells the real life story of great saints like Mahavtaar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Sri Yukteshwar Maharaj, Paramhansa Yogananda and many saints.
Q4] Is Autobiography of a Yogi worth reading?
Answer: Yes. If you feel that there is someone who is controlling all the activities of the universe. The book is one of the best book ever written on spirituality and enlightenment. The best part of the book is that it is a non-fiction book and it is not based on some illusion and imagination.
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