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[Frontispiece: PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA—see py.jpg]

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI

By Paramhansa Yogananda

WITH A PREFACE BY W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc.

“EXCEPT YE SEE SIGNS AND WONDERS,
YE WILL NOT BELIEVE.”-John 4:48.

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF LUTHER BURBANK An American Saint

Contents

Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
List of Illustrations

Chapter

1. My Parents and Early Life
2. Mother’s Death and the Amulet
3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya
5. A “Perfume Saint” Performs his Wonders
6. The Tiger Swami
7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
8. India’s Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose
9. The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)
10. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar
11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
12. Years in my Master’s Hermitage
13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
15. The Cauliflower Robbery
16. Outwitting the Stars
17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires
18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)
19. My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore
20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
21. We Visit Kashmir
22. The Heart of a Stone Image
23. My University Degree
24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
26. The Science of Kriya Yoga
27. Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi
28. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
30. The Law of Miracles
31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
32. Rama is Raised from the Dead
33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
36. Babaji’s Interest in the West
37. I Go to America
38. Luther Burbank—An American Saint
39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria
40. I Return to India
41. An Idyl in South India
42. Last Days with my Guru
43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
45. The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother” (Ananda Moyi Ma)
46. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)
47. I Return to the West
48. At Encinitas in California

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece
Map of India
My Father, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh
Myself at Age 6
My Mother
Swami Pranabananda, “The Saint With Two Bodies”
My Elder Brother, Ananta
My Sister Uma
Nagendra Nath Bhaduri, “The Levitating Saint”
Jagadis Chandra Bose, Famous Scientist
Master Mahasaya, the Blissful Devotee
Jitendra Mazumdar, my Companion on the “Penniless Test” at Brindaban
Sri Yukteswar, My Master
My Guru’s Seaside Hermitage at Puri
The Lord in His Aspect as Shiva
Ranchi School, Main Building
Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
Rabindranath Tagore
A Guru and Disciple in an Ancient Hermitage
Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
Himalayan Cave Occupied by Babaji
Lahiri Mahasaya
Group of Delegates to the International Congress of Religious
Liberals, Boston, 1920
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles Headquarters
A Yoga Class in Washington, D.C.
Luther Burbank
Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, Bavaria
Two Brothers of Therese Neumann, at Konnersreuth
Miss Bletch, Mr. Wright, and myself—in Egypt
Bishnu, Motilal Mukherji, my Father, Mr. Wright, T.N. Bose, Swami
Satyananda
My Sisters—Roma, Nalini, and Uma
My Father
My Guru and Myself
Ranchi Students
Yogoda Math, Hermitage at Dakshineswar
Festival Gathering in the Courtyard of my Guru’s Hermitage in
Serampore
Group on the Dining Patio of my Guru’s Serampore Hermitage
Shankari Mai Jiew, Only Living Disciple of the great Trailanga Swami
Krishnananda with his Tame Lioness
The Taj Mahal at Agra
Swami Keshabananda, at his Hermitage in Brindaban
Krishna, Ancient Prophet of India
Mahatma Gandhi, at Wardha
Ananda Moyi Ma, the “Joy-Permeated Mother”
Giri Bala, the Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
Mr. E. E. Dickinson
Encinitas
Self-Realization Church of All Religions, Hollywood
Self-Realization Church of All Religions, San Diego
Swami Premananda
Conference in San Francisco