Join our global community from wherever you are.8 communities, 45 teaching centers, and 102 meditation groups.Transform your life through joyful service, yoga and meditation at Ananda Village.Step away from your busy life for a few days take time to be still and refresh your soul.It has been highly acclaimed as a spiritual classic including being designated by Philip Zaleski, while he was under the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century." It is included in the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.Wednesday, May 24 12:00 am - Friday, August 18 12:00 am It has been in print for seventy years and translated into over fifty languages by Self-Realization Fellowship. Before becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri.
The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. It is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual wisdom of the East, which had only been available to a few in 1946. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book. In 1935, he returns to India for a yearlong visit. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. Rare and desirable signed.Īutobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the Eastern and the Western world.
Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. C alif, Aug 23rd, 1950.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With unce asing blessing P ar amh ans a Yog an and a L. Item Number: 116088įirst British edition of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with numerous photographic plates.
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