Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the beauty, nobility and true divinity of the human spirit. This is his autobiography.

This autobiography offers a look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence and a portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of the 20th century.

My parents and early life
my mother's death and the mystic amulet
the saint with two bodies (Swami Pranabananda)
my interrupted flight toward the Himalayas
a "perfume saint" displays his wonders
the tiger Swami
the levitating saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)
India's great scientist, J.C. Bose
the blissful devotee and his cosmic romance (Master Mahasaya)
I meet my master, Sri Yukteswar
two penniless boys in Brindaban
years in my master's hermitage
the sleepless saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)
an experience in cosmic consciousness
the cauliflower robbery
outwitting the stars
Sasi and the three sapphires
a Mohammedan wonder-worker (Afzal Khan)
my master, in Calcutta, appears in Serampore
we do not visit Kashmir
we visit Kashmir
the heart of a stone image
I receive my university degree
I become a monk of the Swami Order
Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
the science of "Kriya Yoga"
founding a yoga school in Ranchi
Kashi, reborn and discovered
Rabindranath Tagore and I compare schools
the law of miracles
an interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)
Rama is raised from the dead
Babaji, yogi-Christ of modern India
materializing a palace in the Himalayas
the Christ like life of Lahiri Mahasaya
Babaji's interest in the West
I go to America
Luther Burbank - a saint amid the roses
Therese Neumann, the Catholic stigmatist
I return to India
an idyll in South India
last days with my guru
the resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
with Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
the Bengali "joy-permeated mother" (Ananda Moyi Ma)
the woman yogi who never eats (Giri Bala)
I return to the West
at Encinitas in California
the years 1940-1951
Paramahansa Yoganda - a yogi in life and death
commemorative stamp issued by government of India in honour of Paramahansa Yoganda
aims and ideals of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.