Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi details two alleged historical examples of breatharianism, Giri Bala and Therese Neumann.

A footnote in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi inspired an entire double album Tales from Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ).

Evans-Wentz described his impression of Yukteswar in the preface to Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi:

He became well known in the west through Paramahansa Yogananda, a disciple of Yukteswar Giri, and through Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi.

Lahiri Mahasaya had many meetings with Mahavatar Babaji, recounted in several books, including Paramhansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya ( Lahiri's biography ), and Purana Purusha: Yogiraj Sri Shama Churn Lahiri, among others.

It was brought into popular awareness through Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi and through Yogananda's introduction of the practice to America in 1920.

James Dudley, in his book Library Journal: Autobiography of a Yogi, wrote: " Yogananda's masterly storytelling epitomizes the Indian oral tradition with its wit, charm, and compassionate wisdom.

Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, wrote in her book Finding My Balance, that she was introduced to the Autobiography of a Yogi by Dr. Peter Evans, a direct disciple of Yogananda's.

Her brother, Richard Wright, served as Yogananda's personal secretary for many years, accompanying Yogananda on his trip to India in June 9, 1935 and appearing in his Autobiography of a Yogi.

She wrote the foreword to Yogananda's 1929 book Whispers from Eternity .< ref >

After studying lessons from Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship and graduating from high school, he met Yogananda in 1949 and joined the monastic students at Yogananda's SRF.

The book then takes you on Yogananda's return visit to India in 1935 where he encountered leading spiritual figures such as Therese Neumann in Bavaria, the Hindu saint Ananda Moyi Ma, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir C. V. Raman, and Giri Bala, " the woman yogi who never eats.

After Yogananda's death, and the death of his successor Rajarsi Janakananda, Daya Mata became the third president of YSS / SRF in 1955.

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

Yogananda's seeking after various saints mostly ended when he met his guru, Swami Yukteswar Giri, in 1910, at the age of 17.

This school would later become Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, the Indian branch of Yogananda's American organization.

Anderson was introduced to Yogananda's work that month at the wedding reception of former Yes drummer Bill Bruford by Jamie Muir, then the percussionist for King Crimson.

Lahiri's disciples included both of Yogananda's parents as well as Yogananda's own guru.

This understanding would later become the foundation of Paramahansa Yogananda's commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita.

Self-Realization Fellowship ( SRF ) continues disseminating Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings, including Kriya Yoga, a form of yoga the group claims originated millennia ago in India.

Many people are touched by Yogananda's SRF teachings and want to support it.

In 1950, he joined Swami Premānanda Giri's Self-Realization Church of Absolute Monism, an offshoot of Paramahamsa Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship.

According to Yogananda's autobiography, he has a sister called Mataji ( meaning " Holy Mother ") who also has lived throughout the centuries.

Kriya Yoga was revived by Mahavatar Babaji and various schools, including Paramahansa Yogananda's kriya yoga institute ( Self Realization Fellowship ) claim to teach the original techniques.

The book begins by describing Yogananda's childhood family life to his search for his guru to the establishment of his first school, Yogoda Satsanga Brahmacharya Vidyalaya to his journey to America where he lectured to thousands, established Self-Realization Fellowship and visited with Luther Burbank, a renowned botanist to whom this book is dedicated.

Yukteswar Giri, Yogananda's guru, told him about a significant prediction made by Lahiri Mahasaya, Yukteswar's guru.

In light of this, the Indian guru Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, scribed an extensive commentary on the Gospels published in the two-volume set The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.

Paramahansa Yogananda an Indian yogi and guru introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

Paramahansa Yogananda ( January 5, 1893March 7, 1952 ), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

* Paramahansa Yogananda settled in the USA and wrote the book Autobiography of a Yogi

* Paramahansa Yogananda, " India's Great Scientist, J. C. Bose ," in ' Autobiography of a Yogi ', Los Angeles, CA: Self-Realization Fellowship.

Presented as a double album with one track on each side, its concept is based on singer Jon Anderson's interpretation of four Shastric scriptures from a footnote in Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

One evening in March 1973, while on a concert tour of Japan to promote Close to the Edge, Anderson found himself " caught up in a lengthy footnote on page 83 " of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda which describes four Shastric scriptures that cover religion, art, social life, medicine, music and architecture.

According to Paramahansa Yogananda in his work the Autobiography of a Yogi, it was on the Kumbha Mela in January 1894 at Allahabad that his Guru Sri Yukteswar met Mahavatar Babaji for the first time.

It was at the SRF Encinitas hermitage that Yogananda wrote his famous Autobiography of a Yogi.

Yogananda, who established the fellowship in 1920 spread his philosophy of yoga and meditation, is best known for his Autobiography of a Yogi.

** Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi

Mahavatar Babaji-a drawing from Autobiography of a Yogi, commissioned by Yogananda and based on his own meeting with Babaji

Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi ( 1946 ), including a first hand telling of Yogananda ’ s own meeting with Mahavatar Babaji.

* Autobiography of a Yogi on Wikisource:

** Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 33: Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India

** Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 34: Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas

** Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 36: Babaji's Interest in the West

** Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 37: I Go to America

Autobiography of a Yogi has accounts of Hindu Yogis who used to levitate in the course of their meditation.