Autobiography of a Yogi

There are links to the chapters, illustrations and footnotes. There is no index. Notes: The “Contents” and “List of Illustrations” have been moved before the preface and acknowledgements. Initial XHTML Markup by: anonymous Date: Sunday, May 4, 2002 For: HWG Project Gutenberg 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. Copyright, 1946, by Paramhansa Yogananda Dedicated To The Memory Of LUTHER BURBANK An American Saint Contents Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ List of Illustrations My Parents and Early Life Mother’s Death and the Amulet The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda) My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya A “Perfume Saint” Performs his Wonders The Tiger Swami The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri) India’s Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya) I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban Years in my Master’s Hermitage The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar) An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness The Cauliflower Robbery Outwitting the Stars Sasi and the Three Sapphires A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan) My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore We Do Not Visit Kashmir We Visit Kashmir The Heart of a Stone Image My University Degree I Become a Monk of the Swami Order Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini The Science of Kriya Yoga Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools The Law of Miracles An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri) Rama is Raised from the Dead Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya Babaji’s Interest in the West I Go to America Luther Burbank — An American Saint Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria I Return to India An Idyl in South India Last Days with my Guru The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother” (Ananda Moyi Ma) The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala) I Return to the West 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