Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the Eastern and the Western world. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur India into a Bengali Hindu family.. The book begins with his childhood family life to finding his guru to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston Massachusetts USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles California. In 1935 he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America he continues to establish his teachings including writing this book.. Autobiography of a Yogi is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual wisdom of the East which had only been available to a few in 1946.. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. Before becoming a yogi Lahiri Mahasaya’s actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri.