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You may copy it , give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at [www.gutenberg.org](www.gutenberg.org)  \n[Title: Autobiography of a YOGI](Title: Autobiography of a YOGI)  \n[Author: Paramhansa Yogananda](Author: Paramhansa Yogananda)  \nPosting Date : September 26 , 2012 [EBook \\#7452]  \nRelease Date : February , 2005  \nFirst Posted : May 5 , 2003  \nLanguage : English  \n*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI ***  \nProduced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer .  \nAutobiography of a YOGI  \npy  \nBy Paramhansa Yogananda  \nWITH A PREFACE BY  \nW. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D. Sc.  \n\"Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.\"-John 4 :48.  \nCopyright, 1946, by Paramhansa Yogananda  \nDedicated To The Memory Of  \nLUTHER BURBANK  \nAn American Saint  \nContents  \nPreface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ  \nList of Illustrations  \nChapter  \n1. My Parents and Early Life  \n2. Mother's Death and the Amulet  \n3. The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)  \n4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya  \n5. A \"Perfume Saint\" Performs his Wonders  \n6. The Tiger Swami  \n7. The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)  \n8. India's Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose  \n9. The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)  \n10. I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar  \n11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban  \n12. Years in my Master's Hermitage  \n13. The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)  \n14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness  \n15. The Cauliflower Robbery  \n16. Outwitting the Stars  \n17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires  \n18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)  \n19. My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore  \n20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir  \n21. We Visit Kashmir  \n22. The Heart of a Stone Image  \n23. My University Degree  \n24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order  \n25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini  \n26. The Science of Kriya Yoga  \n27. Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi  \n28. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered  \n29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools  \n30. The Law of Miracles  \n31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)  \n32. Rama is Raised from the Dead  \n33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India  \n34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas  \n35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya  \n36. Babaji's Interest in the West  \n37. I Go to America  \n38. Luther Burbank--An American Saint  \n39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria  \n40. I Return to India  \n41. An Idyl in South India  \n42. Last Days with my Guru  \n43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar  \n44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha  \n45. The Bengali \"Joy-Permeated Mother\" (Ananda Moyi Ma)  \n46. The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)  \n47. I Return to the West  \n48. 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