Paramhansa Yogananda was the first yoga master of India whose mission it was to live and teach in the West. In The 1920s, as hecriss-crossed the United States on what he called his "spiritual cam-paigns,"his enthusiastic audiences filled the largest halls of America.
His initial impact was truly impressive. But his lasting influence is greater still. This book, first published in 1946, helped launch,and continues to inspire, a spiritual revolution in the West.
Only rarely does a sage of Paramhansa Yogananda's stature writea firsthand account of his life experience. Followers of many religious traditions have come to recognize Autobiography of a Yogi as a masterpiece of spiritual literature. Yet, for all its depth, it is full of gentle humor, lively stories, and practical common sense.
This is a vebatim reprinting of the original 1946 edition. Although subsequent reprintings, reflecting revisions made after the author's death in 1952, have sold over a million copies and have been translated into more than 19 languages, the few thousand of the original have long since disappeared into the hands of collectors.
Now, with this reprint, the 1946 edition is again available, with all its inherent power, just as the great master of yoga first presented it.
