Includes bonus CD The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda, featuring excerpts from the Self-Realization Fellowship Collector’s Series of rare recorded talks by Paramahansa Yogananda. 

 

Named one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, Paramahansa Yogananda’s remarkable life story takes you on an unforgettable exploration of the world of saints and yogis, science and miracles, death and resurrection. 

 

With soul-satisfying wisdom and endearing wit, he illuminates the deepest secrets of life and the universe — opening our hearts and minds to the joy, beauty, and unlimited spiritual potentials that exist in the lives of every human being.

 

This complete edition — available exclusively from Self-Realization Fellowship, the organization founded by the author — is the only one that incorporates all of his wishes for the final text including extensive material he added after the original 1946 edition and a final chapter on the closing years of his life. Includes 80 quality archival photographs.

 

 

 

REVIEWS and COMMENTS

 

Regarding Steve Jobs' interest: "One book in particular stayed with Jobs his entire life...Autobiography of a Yogi, the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager,then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since."

— Walter Isaacson's biography, Steve Jobs

 

 

“Fabulous stories from his life keep the reader inspired, informed, and thoroughly entertained from beginning to end.”

 

— Yoga Journal

“This book is a must-read for the budding yogi, the spiritual veteran looking for a deeper understanding, and everyone in between...”

 

— Yogi Times

 

 

 

“I am grateful to you for granting me some insight into this fascinating world.”

 

— Thomas Mann, Nobel laureate

 

 

 

“You would be hard-pressed to find anyone on the spiritual path whose life has not been influenced by this profound work of literature. I first read Autobiography of a Yogi in the 1970s during a vacation in the mountains of Guatemala. It awakened in me a desire to plumb my own spiritual depths and heights. It started me in a path of yoga, meditation, and self-exploration that has continued until this day. I am so grateful for all the wonderful gifts that have followed from these pursuits.”

 

— Jack Canfield, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

 

 

 

“In [Yogananda’s] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the ‘cosmic consciousness’ reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.”

 

 — Robert S. Ellwood, Ph.D., Chairman, School of Religion, University of Southern California

 

 

 

 

“I met Paramahansa Yogananda on two occasions in the 1930s as a boy....Twenty years later someone gave me Autobiography of a Yogi, The moment I started reading that book, it did something to me that I can’t describe. I have read many books on yoga, by yogis; but I was never impressed as with this book. It has some magic in it.”

 

— Ravi Shankar, Indian classical musician 

 

 

 

“One of the most charmingly simple and self-revealing of life-stories...a veritable treasure-house of learning. The great personalities one meets in these pages...return to memory as friends endowed with rich spiritual wisdom, and one of the greatest of these is the God-intoxicated author himself.”

 

— Dr. Anna von Helmholtz-Phelan, Professor of English, University of Minnesota

 

 

 

“As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has an importance both timely and timeless....His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing...of the spiritual wealth of India ever to be published in the West.”

 

— W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc., renowned scholar and author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead

 

 

 

 

“Autobiography of a Yogi, is regarded as an Upanishad of the new age....It has satisfied the spiritual thirst of hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers throughout the world. We in India have watched with wonder and fascination the phenomenal spread of the popularity of this book about India’s saints and philosophy. We have felt great satisfaction and pride that the immortal nectar of India’s Sanatana Dharma, the eternal laws of truth, has been stored in the golden chalice of Autobiography of a Yogi.”

 

— Dr. Ashutosh Das, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., Professor, Calcutta University

 

The bonus CD included contains excerpts from the Self-Realization Fellowship Collector’s Series of rare recorded talks by Paramahansa Yogananda.

 

 

1. In the Glory of the Spirit (excerpt from track 4)
2. In the Glory of the Spirit (excerpt from track 6)
3. To Make Heaven on Earth (excerpt from track 24)
4. Beholding the One in All (excerpt from tracks 12-13)
5. Beholding the One in All (excerpt from tracks 8-9)
6. To Make Heaven on Earth (excerpt from track 21)
7. The Great Light of God (excerpt from track 16)
8. Follow the Path of Christ, Krishna & the Masters (excerpt from track 14)

 

Total playing time is 18:55 minutes