Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Reviewed by John Gilbert

"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda is probably the most widely read book on yoga ever written.  It's a wonderful story of how a young man studied with his master to become enlightened.

Yogananda came to the West to spread the word that God is within each and every one of us, that nothing is closer to us than the Creator, and that the Creator can be reached by each and every one of us.  Reaching the Creator is as easy as sitting down and meditating.

Yogananda met many spiritual giants as he traveled India.  In his autobiography he  shares his insights into these great souls with us.  He describes his experiences with Ghandi, the Woman Saint who didn't eat, his mneetings with the stigmata Therese Neumann, Luther Burbank and many more great spiritual people.

Yogananda describes his life in a loving and nurturing way.  To know Yogananda is to understand Kriya Yoga and receive the blessing of Babaji the founder of Kriya Yoga. 

Paramahansa Yogananda entered mahasamadhi in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 1952.  Mr. Harry T. Rowe, mortuary director of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California wrote the Self Realization Fellowship:

"The appearance of Yogananda on March 27th, just before the bronze cover of the casket was oput into position, was the same as it had been on March 7th.  He looked on March 27th as fresh and as unravaged by decay as he had looked on the night of his death.  On March 27th there was no reason to say that his body had suffered any visible physical disintegration at all...."  For a complete transcript of the remarkable letter see the August 4, 1952 issue of Self Realization Magazine.    

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