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Autobiography of a Yogi (Best Motivational Books for Personal Development
The first prerequisite for Yoga is to have Vidya, or an intellectual base arrived at by reasoning, though in the final culmination Vidya is left behind. Yoga is an intelligent search for the truth. It doesnt depend on fanciful fables and claims.
And Yogananda really does stretch our credulity!! It starts with him remembering himself as a fetus when he knew all languages and finally selected the one he was hearing as his mother tongue and his first memories right after he was born. The claims keep getting more and more astonishing, beginning with minor miracles like controlling his kite as a child, to fantastical claims like Yogis who never eat, become invisible, fly through the air and do just about anything that Superman does, and much more! There's a photograph of Yogananda standing alone with a caption, "Yogananda standing with his master, who did not care to be photographed, so he made himself invisible." It requires a very strong gullibility to accept this. If anyone wants to become invisible or fly, they should go, not to a Yoga teacher, but to David Copperfield.
I am amazed that people in the West still seem to like this book. Many reviewers write about how they h
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Author: Paramhansa Yogananda
Published: (Third Paperback Edition)
Publisher: Jaico Publishing
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My Rating & Recommendation: 5/5, Must Read
The story of Paramhansa Yogananda G&#;s life is so inspiring that it has stirred in me an energy and a thought process so powerfully moving that I am no longer able to deny or ignore the presence of immensely positive universal cosmic forces that exist around all of us, all the time.
I had bought this book because it is in the list of recommendations of a certain Steve Jobs. This was much before Virat Kohli, the captain of Indian Cricket Team, in a tweet, credited the transformation of his life to the understanding and implementation of knowledge in this book. For me, Kohli&#;s tweet was a signal that this book should move it up in my &#;To Read&#; list.
Content Summary
Right from his childhood, a gifted sense of spiritual awareness kept directing him relentlessly in the spiritual path. After his several attempts, to run from his home to the Himalayas to be a sanyasi were thwarted by his family, finally, &#;as destined&#; he miraculously found his guru Swami Sri Yukeswar Giri in Serampore, West Bengal.
Throughout the book, Paramhansa Yogananda G has quoted numerous miracles performed by his Guru, his
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