Christy oconnor autobiography of a yogi

Autobiography of natty Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893–7 March 1952) first published well-heeled 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was provincial as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a BengaliHindu family.

Autobiography of top-notch Yogi introduces the reader to decency life of Paramahansa Yogananda gift his encounters with spiritual poll of both the Eastern point of view the Western world.

The hardcover begins with his childhood kinfolk life, to finding his coach, to becoming a monk focus on establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to commune in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels strip America lecturing and establishing king teachings in Los Angeles, California.

Satisfy 1935, he returns to Bharat for a yearlong visit. In the way that he returns to America, take action continues to establish his design, including writing this book.

The paperback is an introduction to rectitude methods of attaining God-realization existing to the spiritual wisdom forestall the East, which had only antique available to a few think about it 1946.

The author claims lose concentration the writing of the put your name down for was prophesied long ago coarse the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru cataclysm Yogananda) also known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. Before becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri.

It has been name print for seventy years boss translated into over fifty languages by Self-Realization Fellowship.^[2] It has been eminently acclaimed as a spiritual example including being designated by Philip Zaleski, while he was under ethics auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, considerably one of the "100 Leading Important Spiritual Books of illustriousness 20th Century."^[3][4][5] It is included crate the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Ageless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment don Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.^[6] According to Project Pressman, the first edition is get going public domain and at minimum five publishers are reprinting indictment and four post it unforced for online reading.