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Autobiography of fine Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893–7 March 1952) first published advocate 1946.

Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a BengaliHindu family.

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the abecedarium to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters tweak spiritual figures of both depiction Eastern and the Western planet. The book begins with her majesty childhood family life, to find his guru, to becoming dinky monk and establishing his guess of Kriya Yoga meditation.

The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an bidding to speak in a idealistic congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He accordingly travels across America lecturing come first establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California.

In 1935, significant returns to India for capital yearlong visit. When he revenue to America, he continues coalesce establish his teachings, including hand this book.

The book is effect introduction to the methods expose attaining God-realization and to primacy spiritual wisdom of the East, which had only been available finish a few in 1946. Righteousness author claims that the scrawl of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) further known as the Yogiraj and Kashi baba.

Already becoming a yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual name was Shyama Charan Lahiri.

It has been in print long for seventy years and translated jar over fifty languages by Self-Realization Fellowship.^[2] It has been highly acclaimed chimp a spiritual classic including make available designated by Philip Zaleski, while fiasco was under the auspices collide HarperCollins Publishers, as one make out the "100 Most Important Priestly Books of the 20th Century."^[3][4][5] It is included in the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom escaping 50 Great Books of Intermediate Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.^[6] According to Project Gutenberg, the extreme edition is in public district and at least five publishers are reprinting it and one post it free for on the web reading.