Este é um livro de muitas jornadas, há nesta obra muitos livros dentro de um só. Publicado logo após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas escrito ainda ao longo do terror, ele sinaliza uma nova esperança, uma nova era para a espiritualidade humana: que tenha sobrevivido ao tempo, e que seja até hoje um bestseller global, é um sopro de alívio para todos aqueles que despertaram da ilusão material. Ao longo da leitura de Autobiografia de um iogue, Yogananda vai nos seduzindo pouco a pouco

Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages.

Contents

Preaface, by W.Y. Evans-Wantz
List of illustrations
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 Himalayas
5. A "Perfume Saint" perfoms 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 Kashimr
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 Kria Yoga
27. Funding 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 te 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. Lkuter Bkurbank-a saint amidst the roses
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 Bengaili "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
49. The years 1940-1951
Line of the SRF Gurus
Aims and ideals of SRF
Index

Inspirational to all my tribe. ( )

When I learned that Steve Jobs re-read this book each year and the autiobook is read by Ben Kingsley, I knew I had to check it out. It proved to be more religious than I expected, relying on faith to explain much. Reading this helps to understand how Jobs could persue alternative medicine when diagnosed with cancer. ( )