"Except ye see signs and wonders,
ye will not believe."-John 4:48.
The world-famous book “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda (January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, now you can read it online. Yogananda Swami was not only ardent devotee of Kāli Mā and exceptional teacher and popularizer of Kriya Yoga in India and in USA, he is considered a God-realized personality or in Indian terminology – Paramahamsa (non-returning).
This book contains Autobiography of Yogananda, written himself and relates about those great spiritual personalities and teachers and saints he has met during his lifetime in India and a few also in West, among them – Anandamayi Ma, Shri Yukteshwar, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and many more – very inspiring stories from direct eye-witness – Paramahamsa Yogananda.
Contents
Chapter
- My Parents and Early Life
- Mother's Death and the Amulet
- The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
- My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya
- A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders
- The Tiger Swami
- The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
- India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose
- The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
- I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
- Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
- Years in my Master's Hermitage
- The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
- An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
- The Cauliflower Robbery
- Outwitting the Stars
- Sasi and the Three Sapphires
- A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)
- My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore
- We Do Not Visit Kashmir
- We Visit Kashmir
- The Heart of a Stone Image
- My University Degree
- I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
- Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
- The Science of Kriya Yoga
- Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi
- Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
- Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
- The Law of Miracles
- An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
- Rama is Raised from the Dead
- Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
- Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
- The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
- Babaji's Interest in the West
- I Go to America
- Luther Burbank -- An American Saint
- Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria
- I Return to India
- An Idyl in South India
- Last Days with my Guru
- The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
- With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
- The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Anandamayi Ma)
- The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
- I Return to the West
- At Encinitas in California