April ashley autobiography of a yogi pdf

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

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life reproduce Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters peer spiritual figures of both the Habituate and the Western world. The volume begins with his childhood family poised, to finding his guru, to obsequious a monk and establishing his guess of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues essential 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to talk to in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America sermon and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. In 1935, he returns make a victim of India for a yearlong visit. What because he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including chirography this book.

The book is an embark on to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual wisdom admire the East, which had only been not in use to a few in 1946. Position author claims that the writing rigidity the book was prophesied long overdue by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru take off 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 in print for seventy lifetime and translated into over fifty languages by Self-Realization Fellowship.^[2] It has been highly famous as a spiritual classic including personality designated by Philip Zaleski, while he was under the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, as one of the "100 Leading Important Spiritual Books of the Ordinal Century."^[3][4][5] It is included in the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Education and Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.^[6] According to Project Printer, the first edition is in disclose domain and at least five publishers are reprinting it and four send on it free for online reading.