Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0876120796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 596 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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1893 1952 Hailed as the father of Yoga in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda is regarded as one of the great spiritual figures of our time. Through his best-selling classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, and his numerous other books, he has introduced millions throughout the world to the spiritual principles of yoga meditation and the universal truths under
This book is a must-read for the budding yogi, the spiritual veteran looking for a deeper understanding, and everyone in between --Yogi TimesOne book in particular stayed with Steve Jobs his entire life, Autobiography of a Yogi'the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager, then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.' --Huffington Post, review of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve JobsFabulous stories from his life keep the reader inspired, informed, and thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. --Yog
Several million copies have been sold, and it continues to appear on best-seller lists after more than sixty consecutive years in print. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages.Self-Realization Fellowship's editions, and none others, include extensive material added by the author after the first edition was published, including a final chapter on the closing years of his life.Selected as "One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century", Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into more than 30 languages, and is regarded worldwide as a classic of religious literature. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore,
Learn about India, Kriya Yoga, and Christianity from this wonderful author and significant religious figure of tthe 20th century Autobiography of a Yogi is a book that was on my wish list for a long time. I saw the book referenced by another author. Several months back, I watched an old interview with George Harrison. The dullard MTV reporter made a comment about Elvis Presley not being a spiritual seeker, to which George Harrison stepped in to defend Elvis. A little bit of investigation led me to the fact that Autobiography of a Yogi was one of Elvis’s favorite books. This prodded me into buying the kindle version of this book.Th. I have long enjoyed and learned from reading the great Indian spiritual writers As an instructor of world religions, I have long enjoyed and learned from reading the great Indian spiritual writers, whether their commentaries on Vedic literature or their own autobiographies. Paramahansa Yogananda's autobiography is a splendid work guaranteed to hold the interested reader in rapt attention.One feature of this work that I especially appreciate is its humor. The yogi is self-effacing and wry, and he approaches profoundly spiritual and meaningful subjects and experiences with a lightness of he. I realized that Paramahansa Yogananda had made perfect sense of life I believe this is the most important book ever written by a human being. The first time I tried to read it, I literally could not, because I couldn't believe that the miracles were real; they seemed so unscientific to me. So, I stopped reading it. Then, I realized that I was not practicing multi-cultural respect by believing that Paramahansa Yogananda was writing things that could not be true, so I decided that he was somehow writing "his" truth, and that "his" truth was somehow in-the-direction of THE Truth,