Autobiography Of A Yogi (Large Print Edition)

Are you ready to change your life?

We all finally get to a point in our life, usually after much pain, where we answer this question with a resounding 'yes.' When that time comes, according to Hindu tradition, the Guru appears. Funny, I thought I was Catholic. This book not only opened my mind to new possibilities, but changed my life forever. I soon found myself waking up every morning happy- something I had not experienced before. And all because I learned a technique called meditation which helped me to realize that God is in all, but most especially, in the form of this beautiful man from India who I now respectfully refer to as my Guru. What can I say- if you are going to get hooked on something or someone-I highly recommend getting drunk on God. Yogananda will show you how. A mind & soul altering book.

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Highly Recommended

I could not put this book down!!

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Awesome!!!!

This book is amazing! Its a great read and very inspirational and enlightening. Even though spirituality is the underlying theme in this book, it is great for everyone! I give it out as gifts all the time. This book is really good for the mind and soul and promotes positivity and happiness.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

I liked the book because I've started meditating and I now realize there are different types of yoga/yogis. There's the physical type and the meditating type.

I enjoyed hearing all of the stories. There was a lot of faith and patience that everything would turn out just fine and it did.

4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

If you only read one of Paramhansaji's books, this is the one!

I am a student of Yogananda and Kriyananda's form of Kriya Yoga, I am discipled in Ananda, the organisation Kriyananda founded after his guru's death to carry on Yogananda's untainted teachings. I must say that this is, of all the writings of these two great men of God, the most important of their books to read, followed closely by 'God is for Everyone' which was written by Kriyananda as a modernisation of Yogananda's 'Science of Religion', and 'Awaken to Superconsciousness' also by Kriyananda.

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Classic on Comparative Religion & Raja Yoga

I was deeply effected in a positive way upon my first reading of Yogananda's life in the Autobiography of a Yogi. It took me to a deeper level of understanding and motivated me to a more serious and better informed spiritual search. There is a lot of thought provoking data here for most students of comparative religion. Yogananda opens up a revelation of fresh and valid spritiual concepts that answered many of my long lived querys. The most recent editions are the most accurate, as the author later added the 49th chapter and made important changes with each new printing. He appointed and personally trained 2 editors-in-chiefs to continue this process after his passing. Their work is very much in tune with the process which he himself began. And very much appreciated. From my research into his other writings, the editions with the orange covers are clearly representing the real Paramanhansa Yogananda. This book will change your life! I know it changed mine.

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Thank You , Paramahansa Yogananda

'Autobiography of a Yogi ' is , for me , the most important contribution in answering life's questions that pertain to ' Why are we here ( ? ) ' . Paramahansa Yogananda is one of God's saints. He is a prophet of love. I wish I had the words to express how good I feel about what he has written. He explains what Jesus meant about The Christ Consciousness. He explains many verses from the old testament of the Bible. He stressed over and again how important it is to meditate on Almighty God and the importance of yoga. He wrote two chapters that relate to ' Man does not live by bread alone '. He shared with us his encounter with his resurrected ( ! ) Guru, Sri Yukteswar, who had explained to him the allegory of the Garden of Eden. He explained many similarities of Hinduism and Christianity , including the 'Sat, Tat ,and Aum ' of Hinduism and its direct correlation to the 'Father , Son , and Holy Spirit' of Christianity. He candidly offered the realization that until humankind does away with its desires for money, sex , and wine, we will still reincarnate on the plane of earth. He tells us that few have known the final truths , and when asked as to what they are, remain silent - - we must leave some questions to the infiite.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Very enlightening and inspiring

This book changed my life. It gave such a simple way to look at spirituality. I would definitely recommend this to any reader interested in spirituality

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Mmmmmm

Looks interesting should I get it?

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Facinating!

Very modern philosophy for such an ancient religion. Very fast read for first half. Alittle slower in the middle, but stick with it, extremely interesting man to read about. I enjoyed this book very much!

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good

its boring at first but then it gets better

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Inspriational

I read this book many years ago and keep going back to it.

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Highly Recommended

I loved it a real magic carpet ride. Whether Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, whatever your religion you will enjoy this book. It is a journey toward enlightenment, and an adventure by car and boat. This is an adventure that takes you on a quest through several countries and beliefs. I found a miracle on almost on every page. I loved every minute.So long as you keep an open mind you will love it.

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You won't regret it!

An amazing book. Very inspirational.
I'm a procrastinator. Regarding yoga/meditation, my approach for the last 6 or 7 years has been: I'll start next month.
If 'Autobiography' doesn't light that fire under me, nothing will. I've actually reached out to the organization and requested some home lessons to start.
If you're not totally into yoga, that's fine. Neither was/am I, but the book even reads like a novel quite often. The story, in itself, is fun.

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Highly Recommended!

Wonderfully written. This book is the original without all the changes made in other editions years after the author's passing. It's thrilling!

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The Personality of a Politician

Yogananda has the personality of a politician: capable of projecting great warmth to sway others to his point of view. Nevertheless, it is odd for the autobiography of a parmamahansa to contain so many stories of authority figures acceding to the author's "superior" person.

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one of the greatest

life enhancing

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Listening to the soul.

The book looks deeper into the soul that connects with the invisible, undestroyable power that drives the cycle of life and death.

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Lyrical, Spiritual, Grounded

I greatly enjoyed this book. It blends the life story of a great man who lived during a very interesting era, with valuable insight into the spiritual realm generally and yoga specifically. Yogananda does not try to convince the skeptic. He simply and humbly presents his story.

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I have always loved this book

This is a fascinating supposedly true story of the man who brought yoga to the U.S. Although recently I watched the film "Kumare" on Netflix and so now I wonder . . . and also I am a Christian and believe we are to look only to God for everything, but this is a good read.