Autobiography Of A Yogi By Paramahansa Yogananda

<p>Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5 1893-March 7 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur India into a Bengali Hindu family. 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. 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. The book is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya 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 years and translated into over fifty languages by Self-Realization Fellowship. It has been highly acclaimed as a spiritual classic including being designated by Philip Zaleski.</p>