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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Autobiography of a Yogi

 


More than a book it is a  cultural phenomena. He has influenced generations of artist, politicians and industrialist like Jack Canfield, Steve Jobs, This was 83rd of 2021

1920's Yogananda campaigned in US. Power of Meditation to convert heart and minds into Joy with Kriya Yoga, key to fulfilling spiritual life. Wholistic life is prescribed. Exercise, healthy food and worry free life. Experience of a cosmic yogi. Self realization is important,   Merge with nature. 

In the chapter 'Law of miracles' -  Intersection of Yogic signs and Light as the foundation of Universe. 

Thoughts are universally not individually rooted, you don't create thoughts, you let it manifest in the level of consciousness on which you live. When that level is high you are happy, and when it is low we are sad. We come from bliss and we want that bliss again.  God is sachinanda. Every existing, ever conscious. His mission was one, to bring all to God. 

The book is divided into below chapters:

No plagiarism intended, but purely for future references.

Found this in YouTube in two parts:

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKVP4uf4YXE

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htndVQnNuKI

Chapter 1 - 4:35 My Parents and Early Life

Chapter 2 - 31:13 My Mother's Death and The Mystic Amulet

Chapter 3 - 45:49 The Saint with Two Bodies

Chapter 4 - 1:00:05 My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas 

Chapter 5 - 1:30:22 A Perfume Saint Displays His Wonders 

Chapter 6 ' 1:47:53 Tiger Swamy

Chapter 7 - 2:10:56 The Levitating Saint

Chapter 8 - 2:21:59 India's Great Scientist J. C. Bose

Chapter 9 - 2:40:34 The Blissful Devotee And The Cosmic Romance 

Chapter 10 - 2:56:32 I Meet My Master Sri Yukteshwar 

Chapter 11 - 3:19:53 Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban

Chapter 12 - 3:38:20 Years in My Master's Hermitage 

Chapter 13 - 4:48:59 Sleepless Saint

Chapter 14 - 5:06:18 An Experience In Cosmic Consciousness 

Chapter 15 - 5:24:01 Cauliflower Robbery

Chapter 16 - 5:46:50 Outwitting The Stars

Chapter 17 - 6:07:10 Sasi and The Three Sapphires 

Chapter 18 -  0:03 A Mohammedin Wonder Worker 

Chapter 19 -  12:31 My Master, In Calcutta, Appears in Serampore

Chapter 20 - 19:20 We Do Not Visit Kashmir

Chapter 21 - 29:30 We Visit Kashmir

Chapter 22 - 50:44 The Heart of a Stone Image

Chapter 23 - 1:03:27 I Receive My University Degree

Chapter 24 - 1:17:18 I Become a Monk of the Swami Order

Chapter 25 - 1:33:39 Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini

Chapter 26 - 1:44:24 The Science of Kriya Yoga

Chapter 27 - 2:03:28 Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi

Chapter 28 - 2:21:58 Kashi, Reborn, and Rediscovered 

Chapter 29 - 2:30:50 Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools

Chapter 30 - 2:40:56 The Law of Miracles

Chapter 31 - 3:08:33 An Interview with the Sacred Mother 

Chapter 32 - 3:31:00 Rama is Raised from the Dead

Chapter 33 - 3:50:00 Babaji, Yogi - Christ of Modern India

Chapter 34 - 4:07:40 Materializing a Place in the Himalayas

Chapter 35- 4:35:16 The christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya

Chapter 36- 5:00:46 Babaji's Interest in the west

Chapter 37- 5:37:10 I go to America

Chapter 38 - Luther Burbank - A Saint Amid the Roses

Chapter 39 - Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist

Chapter 4- I return to India

Chapter 41 - 6:22:00 An Idyl in South India

Chapter 42 - Last Days with My Guru

Chapter 43- 7:17:30 The Resurection of Sri Yukteswar

Chapter 44- 8:03:00 With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha

Chapter 45 - The Bengali "Joy-Permeated Mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma)

Chapter 46 - The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats (Giri Bala)

Chapter 47- I Return to the West

Chapter 48 - At Encinitas in California

Chapter 49 - The Years 1940 -1951

Paramahansa Yogananda: A Yogi in Life and Death

Commemorative stamp issued by Government of India in honour of Paramahansa Yogananda

Aims and ideals of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the famous Spiritual Book of the Twentieth Century which is written by Paramahansa Yogananda. In this book, he explained memorable findings of the world of saints and yogis and also explained science and miracles, death and resurgence. With soul-satisfying consciousness and endearing wit, he lightens the hidden secrets of life and the world opening our hearts and minds to the happiness, splendor and limitless spiritual capacities that last in the lives of every human being. 

About the Author: Paramahansa Yogananda is an Indian yogi and guru whose best-selling spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, has introduced millions of readers to the perennial wisdom of the East. He is now widely recognized as the Father of Yoga in the West. He founded Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in 1917, in Ranchi, and Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles in 1920 for the dissemination of Kriya Yoga.

My worldly anger and frustration have been getting to me. My soul thank you forever. I shall help guide others to this knowledge and harmony


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