Frontispiece Map of India My Father, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh Myself at Age 6 My Mother Swami Pranabananda, “The Saint With Two Bodies” My Elder Brother, Ananta My Sister Uma Nagendra Nath Bhaduri, “The Levitating Saint” Jagadis Chandra Bose, Famous Scientist Master Mahasaya, the Blissful Devotee Jitendra Mazumdar, my Companion on the “Penniless Test” at Brindaban Sri Yukteswar, My Master My Guru’s Seaside Hermitage at Puri The Lord in His Aspect as Shiva Ranchi School, Main Building Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered Rabindranath Tagore A Guru and Disciple in an Ancient Hermitage Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India Himalayan Cave Occupied by Babaji Lahiri Mahasaya Group of Delegates to the International Congress of Religious Liberals, Boston, 1920 Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles Headquarters A Yoga Class in Washington, D.C. Luther Burbank Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, Bavaria Two Brothers of Therese Neumann, at Konnersreuth Miss Bletch, Mr. Wright, and myself—in Egypt Bishnu, Motilal Mukherji, my Father, Mr. Wright, T.N. Bose, Swami Satyananda My Sisters—Roma, Nalini, and Uma My Father My Guru and Myself Ranchi Students Yogoda Math, Hermitage at Dakshineswar Festival Gathering in the Courtyard of my Guru’s Hermitage in Serampore Group on the Dining Patio of my Guru’s Serampore Hermitage Shankari Mai Jiew, Only Living Disciple of the great Trailanga Swami Krishnananda with his Tame Lioness The Taj Mahal at Agra Swami Keshabananda, at his Hermitage in Brindaban Krishna, Ancient Prophet of India Mahatma Gandhi, at Wardha Ananda Moyi Ma, the “Joy-Permeated Mother” Giri Bala, the Woman Yogi Who Never Eats Mr. E. E. Dickinson Encinitas Self-Realization Church of All Religions, Hollywood Self-Realization Church of All Religions, San Diego Swami Premananda Conference in San Francisco PREFACE By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc. Jesus College, Oxford; Author of THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, TIBET’S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA, TIBETAN YOGA AND SECRET DOCTRINES, etc. The value of Yogananda’s AUTOBIOGRAPHYis greatly enhanced by the fact that it is one of the few books in English about the wise men of India which has been written, not by a journalist or foreigner, but by one of their own race and training—in short, a book ABOUT yogis BY a yogi. As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless. To its illustrious author, whom I have had the pleasure of knowing both in India and America, may every reader render due appreciation and gratitude. His unusual life-document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West.