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Autobiography of a Yogi |
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Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
By Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.
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List Price: £7.99
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.55
EAN: 9780876120798
ISBN: 0876120796
Label: Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.
Manufacturer: Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 604
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.
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The Union of Minds, 2010-07-02
This a fabulous book if you are a truth seeker. I went to India 40 years ago, was given this book, and it has everything I went to India for in it. What could be better, in this or any age, than a science of religion?
Prompt Customer Service, 2010-02-27
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 All that glsters is not gold!, 2010-03-30
I have awarded this book only one star to draw attention to the flaws, in the form of fantasies and fabrications, that are dotted throughout this work by someone erroneously considered a great yogi. Yogananda wasn't an especially bad yogi simply not the great one he is deemed to be by way too many people, most of whom do not seem to use their own innate intelligence and sensibilities to make their judgements but go along with popular opinion. Perhaps, they haven't anything to compare his errant ramblings and incorrect teachings with but I have, and will later recommend other books for those interested in finding solace in yoga and spirituality.
For now, it is best to understand that many of the gurus and godmen/women of India are somewhat like popular boy/girl bands. That is they may appeal to the uninitiated and unwise, such as the young, the unmusical and the easily led who have little else to spend their money on and so they (boybands and such like) reach poll positions in the 'charts' and win awards at apparently prestigious music ceremonies. But, regardless of their popularity, the reality is that the boy/girl bands are not quality musicians, singers and artists and the same can be said with the spiritual quality of most of the popular gurus of India.
Yogananda was a rather bad tempered and obese individual who knew how to market himself to a Western public that had had its appetite for yoga and the Vedas whetted by Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda, who was a great yogi, did have to distill and adapt his teaching to suit the Western audience of the time, so his books, although well worth reading, were written over one hundred years ago to accord with a largely Christian orientated public, who knew little if anything about the great spiritual teachings of India, and this needs to be kept in mind to get the best from his enlightened wisdom.
Before this Yogananda arrived in the now spiritually hungry USA another Swami Yogananda had traveled some of the country and was rightly gaining popularity. So, by the time the Yogananda who authored this book arrived the name, Yogananda, was already being whispered by the spirituality inclined masses and, therefore, he had little difficulty gathering a following. Of course, there were altercations between the two and as the first Yogananda had returned to India he could do little from afar except apply to the virtue of conscience he assumed his namesake would have and that it would be made clear they were not one and the same. However, this, the narcissistic, limelight seeking Yogananda was having none of it and continued to tour the USA under the banner 'Swami Yogananda' setting up establishments to teach his variation of kriya yoga, which was a whole new thing for the West. But this Yogananda didn't teach the kriya yoga found in the traditions of the real yoga masters and, unfortunately, owing to his boy/girl band popularity his shallow version of kriya yoga continues to be too readily taught today and his fantastical and much flawed yoga books bandied about as classics.
So, if you have a nice singing voice, for example, and would like to develop it would you prefer to emulate, or be taught by, a Cheryl Cole or an Ella Fitzgerald? Likewise, consider the quality of the yoga you will learn by reading and working with Yoganandas teachings (Cheryl Cole) or, for example, that of the Bihar School of Yoga - the Swami Satyananda tradition (more Ella Fitzgerald in quality).
The book Sivananda Buried Yoga - Yogi Manmoyanand, explains many of the problems with the popular godmen/women of India and the difficulties of encountering the real tradition of yoga
Hari Om Tat Sat
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!, 2010-07-31
This is a most wonderful book! It is food for the Soul. Read it and grow.
thomasgk9, 2010-05-29
I agree with the comment by the another reviewer that this is a life changing book. It is written by a great Yogi and gives a clear idea of the purpose of Yoga. Unlike any other book of Yoga this spiritual book can be read like a novel ( a highly interesting and spiritual novel at that). So this book is for you if you enjoy reading novels (not to mention if you like any kind of spiritual disciplines)
One of the best aspect of this book is that you are more likely to read it again and again and again. It is just like reading an interesting novel again and but will help you to focus on spiritual goals . It has a calm uplifting effect on you every time you read it.
To those who criticise Paramahansa Yogananda as " not a great Yogi" , all I want to do is to quote Kriya Yoga Master Sadgurunath Siddhanath (A kriya master of a different organisation- [] ) about Parama Hamsa Yogananda " he is great being,a divine soul , a great master.........he could go to nirvikalpa samadhi at any time.......the only guru who demonstrated this in life and death.....there are people who started saying things about Yoganand which i have refuted and told them -look, if you can die and keep your body in a deathless state for 21 days like Yogananda did - then talk ,otherwise -shut up!!"
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