Paramahansa YoganandaHis autobiography

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  1. Chapter 1: My Parents and Early Life
  2. Chapter 2: My Mother’s Death And The Mystic Amulet
  3. Chapter 3: The Saint With Two Bodies
  4. Chapter 4: My Interrupted Flight Toward The Himalayas
  5. Chapter 5: A “Perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders
  6. Chapter 6: The Tiger Swami
  7. Chapter 7: The Levitating Saint
  8. Chapter 8: India’s Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
  9. Chapter 9: The Blissful Devotee And His Cosmic Romance
  10. Chapter 10: I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
  11. Chapter 11: Two Penniless Boys In Brindaban
  12. Chapter 12: Years In My Master’s Hermitage
  13. Chapter 13: The Sleepless Saint
  14. Chapter 14: An Experience In Cosmic Consciousness
  15. Chapter 15: The Cauliflower Robbery
  16. Chapter 16: Outwitting The Stars
  17. Chapter 17: Sasi And The Three Sapphires
  18. Chapter 18: A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
  19. Chapter 19: My Master, In Calcutta, Appears In Serampore
  20. Chapter 20: We Do Not Visit Kashmir
  21. Chapter 21: We Visit Kashmir
  22. Chapter 22: The Heart Of A Stone Image
  23. Chapter 23: I Receive My University Degree
  24. Chapter 24: I Become A Monk Of The Swami Order
  25. Chapter 25: Brother Ananta And Sister Nalini
  26. Chapter 26: The Science Of Kriya Yoga
  27. Chapter 27: Founding A Yoga School At Ranchi
  28. Chapter 28: Kashi, Reborn And Rediscovered
  29. Chapter 29: Rabindranath Tagore And I Compare Schools
  30. Chapter 30: The Law Of Miracles
  31. Chapter 31: An Interview With The Sacred Mother
  32. Chapter 32: Rama Is Raised From The Dead
  33. Chapter 33: Babaji, The Yogi-Christ Of Modern India
  34. Chapter 34: Materializing A Palace In The Himalayas
  35. Chapter 35: The Christlike Life Of Lahiri Mahasaya
  36. Chapter 36: Babaji’s Interest In The West
  37. Chapter 37: I Go To America
  38. Chapter 38: Luther Burbank—A Saint Amidst The Roses
  39. Chapter 39: Therese Neumann, The Catholic Stigmatist
  40. Chapter 40: I Return To India
  41. Chapter 41: An Idyl In South India
  42. Chapter 42: Last Days With My Guru
  43. Chapter 43: The Resurrection Of Sri Yukteswar
  44. Chapter 44: With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha
  45. Chapter 45: The Bengali “Joy-Permeated” Mother
  46. Chapter 46: The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
  47. Chapter 47: I Return To The West
  48. Chapter 48: At Encinitas In California

Author’s Acknowledgments

I am deeply indebted to Miss L. V. Pratt for her long editorial labors over the manuscript of this book. My thanks are due also to Miss Ruth Zahn for preparation of the index, to Mr. C. Richard Wright for permission to use extracts from his Indian travel diary, and to Dr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz for suggestions and encouragement.

PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA October 28, 1945 Encinitas, California

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