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The New Path:
My Life with Paramhansa Yogananda

by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)

To the sincere seeker,
whatever his chosen path

A group of Paramhansa Yogananda’s disciples had gone with him to see a movie about the life of Gyandev, a great saint of medieval India. Afterwards they gathered to hear the Master explain a few subtler aspects of that inspiring story. A young man from India mentioned another film he had seen years earlier about the life of Mirabai, a famous woman saint.

“If you’d seen that movie,” he exclaimed, “you would have hated this one!”
“Why make comparisons?” the Guru rebuked him. “The lives of all saints manifest in various ways the same, one God.

Swami Kriyananda and Paramhansa Yogananda

Originally published as The Path: Autobiography of a Western Yogi, this newly revised edition commemorates Swami Kriyananda's 60th year of discipleship to Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the bestselling spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi.

It includes a new introduction, expanded and revised chapters, and new stories about Yogananda's life not published in the original.

The New Path is an in-depth, firsthand account of the author’s life with Yogananda. Written with humor, wisdom, and humility, The New Path is really three books in one.

In Part One, Swami Kriyananda tells the story of his early life as a seeker of spiritual truth.

In Part Two, he introduces Yogananda and his teachings, and recounts his life with the Master in an intimate, engaging detail.

Part Three relates Kriyananda’s experiences in serving his Guru's mission after Yogananda’s passing.