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Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda, retrato de la «pose estándar»
byParamahansa Yogananda

An account of his life from childhood in Gorakhpur to the founding of his work in America, woven together with the story of his lineage—Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar—and with encounters with figures such as Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi, Therese Neumann, Anandamayi Ma and Luther Burbank. It mixes memoir, hagiography and doctrinal exposition: it presents kriya yoga as a science of liberation and narrates wonders to be read as testimony of faith. One of the most widely read spiritual books of the twentieth century, translated into more than fifty languages, it was the gateway to meditative yoga for several generations of Western readers.

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Authorship note

Written by Yogananda at the Encinitas hermitage between 1936 and 1946. The first edition (The Philosophical Library, New York, December 1946) is in the US public domain; since 1951 SRF has published revised, copyrighted editions, and Ananda (Crystal Clarity) reprints the 1946 text.

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Sources

  • Yogananda, Paramhansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. Nueva York: The Philosophical Library, 1946 (1.ª ed.; texto en Project Gutenberg #7452).

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