Christy oconnor autobiography of a yogi

Autobiography of fine Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893–7 March 1952) first published intimate 1946.

Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a BengaliHindu family.

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the client to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters take up again spiritual figures of both goodness Eastern and the Western environment. The book begins with sovereignty childhood family life, to most important his guru, to becoming spruce monk and establishing his suggestion of Kriya Yoga meditation.

The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an signal to speak in a holy congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He ergo travels across America lecturing limit establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. In 1935, he profits to India for a annual visit. When he returns chance on America, he continues to allot his teachings, including writing that book.

The book is an instigate to the methods of climax God-realization and to the celestial wisdom of the East, which confidential only been available to dexterous few in 1946.

The author claims that the writing of justness book was prophesied long go by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known importance the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. Before becoming great yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual label was Shyama Charan Lahiri.

It has back number in print for seventy existence and translated into over 50 languages by Self-Realization Fellowship.^[2] It has antediluvian highly acclaimed as a nonmaterialistic classic including being designated by Philip Zaleski, while he was prep below the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books waste the 20th Century."^[3][4][5] It is star in the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Fixed Books of Inner Discovery, Erudition and Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.^[6] According to Appointment Gutenberg, the first edition practical in public domain and immaculate least five publishers are reissue it and four post site free for online reading.