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This is the original edition, just as Yogananda wrote it, without the hundreds of changes made to editions published after Yogananda’s passing in 1952.
Utmost care has been taken to make this the most accurate reprint ever published.
Autobiography of a Yogi

This is not an ordinary book. It is a spiritual treasure. Rarely does a sage of Paramhansa Yogananda’s stature write a firsthand account of his life experiences.
This spiritual classic has been read by millions. Followers of many religious traditions have come to recognize Autobiography of a Yogi as a masterpiece of spiritual literature. Yet, for all its depth, it is full of gentle humor, lively stories, and practical common sense.
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- Chapter 1: My Parents and Early Life
- Chapter 2: My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet
- Chapter 3: The Saint With Two Bodies
- Chapter 4: My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
- Chapter 5: A “Perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders
- Chapter 6: The Tiger Swami
- Chapter 7: The Levitating Saint
- Chapter 8: India’s Great Scientist, J. C. Bose
- Chapter 9: The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
- Chapter 10: I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
- Chapter 11: Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
- Chapter 12: Years in My Master’s Hermitage
- Chapter 13: The Sleepless Saint
- Chapter 14: An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
- Chapter 15: The Cauliflower Robbery
- Chapter 16: Outwitting the Stars
- Chapter 17: Sasi and the Three Sapphires
- Chapter 18: A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
- Chapter 19: My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
- Chapter 20: We Do Not Visit Kashmir
- Chapter 21: We Visit Kashmir
- Chapter 22: The Heart of a Stone Image
- Chapter 23: I Receive My University Degree
- Chapter 24: I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
- Chapter 25: Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
- Chapter 26: The Science of Kriya Yoga
- Chapter 27: Founding a Yoga School in Ranchi
- Chapter 28: Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
- Chapter 29: Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
- Chapter 30: The Law of Miracles
- Chapter 31: An Interview with the Sacred Mother
- Chapter 32: Rama is Raised from the Dead
- Chapter 33: Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
- Chapter 34: Materializing a Palace in the Himalaya
- Chapter 35: The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
- Chapter 36: Babaji’s Interest in the West
- Chapter 37: I Go to America
- Chapter 38: Luther Burbank — A Saint Amidst the Roses
- Chapter 39: Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
- Chapter 40: I Return to India
- Chapter 41: An Idyl in South India
- Chapter 42: Last Days with My Guru
- Chapter 43: The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
- Chapter 44: With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
- Chapter 45: The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother”
- Chapter 46: The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
- Chapter 47: I Return to the West
- Chapter 48: At Encinitas in California
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