Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda’s spiritual memoir traces his path from a Bengal childhood steeped in devotion to his years as a monk carrying Kriya Yoga meditation to the West. He recounts the long search for his guru, finding Sri Yukteswar and the discipline that shaped him, alongside meetings with saints, scientists, and mystics who blur the line between the ordinary and the miraculous. First published in 1946, the book introduced millions of Western readers to yoga philosophy and to the idea that direct experience of the divine is within reach through daily practice. It remains one of the most widely read accounts of Indian spiritual life. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings the full text to new readers.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preface | 4:43 | |
| 2 | My Parents and Early Life | 28:42 | |
| 3 | My Mother's Death and the Mystic Amulet | 14:59 | |
| 4 | The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda) | 11:58 | |
| 5 | My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya | 12:26 | |
| 6 | A "Perfume Saint" Performs his Wonders | 14:50 | |
| 7 | The Tiger Swami | 20:43 | |
| 8 | The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri) | 10:55 | |
| 9 | India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose | 17:45 | |
| 10 | The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya) | 15:13 | |
| 11 | I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar | 26:19 | |
| 12 | Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban | 20:25 | |
| 13 | Years in my Master's Hermitage | 1:11:49 | |
| 14 | The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar) | 20:29 | |
| 15 | An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness | 22:41 | |
| 16 | The Cauliflower Robbery | 21:53 | |
| 17 | Outwitting the Stars | 26:00 | |
| 18 | Sasi and the Three Sapphires | 13:00 | |
| 19 | A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan) | 12:48 | |
| 20 | My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore | 7:16 | |
| 21 | We Do Not Visit Kashmir | 9:08 | |
| 22 | We Visit Kashmir | 20:15 | |
| 23 | The Heart of a Stone Image | 14:09 | |
| 24 | My University Degree | 14:22 | |
| 25 | I Become a Monk of the Swami Order | 16:06 | |
| 26 | Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini | 12:07 | |
| 27 | The Science of Kriya Yoga | 19:43 | |
| 28 | Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi | 17:28 | |
| 29 | Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered | 8:19 | |
| 30 | Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools | 11:14 | |
| 31 | The Law of Miracles | 26:29 | |
| 32 | An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri) | 20:28 | |
| 33 | Rama is Raised from the Dead | 16:50 | |
| 34 | Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India | 16:56 | |
| 35 | Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas | 24:58 | |
| 36 | The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya | 23:33 | |
| 37 | Babaji's Interest in the West | 15:38 | |
| 38 | I Go to America | 23:19 | |
| 39 | Luther Burbank -- An American Saint | 12:36 | |
| 40 | Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria | 20:16 | |
| 41 | I Return to India | 22:18 | |
| 42 | An Idyl in South India | 33:24 | |
| 43 | Last Days with my Guru | 29:11 | |
| 44 | The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar | 59:40 | |
| 45 | With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha | 47:14 | |
| 46 | The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma) | 12:06 | |
| 47 | The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala) | 23:08 | |
| 48 | I Return to the West | 10:30 | |
| 49 | At Encinitas in California | 17:24 |
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