His family stories show that even a revered yogi faces family resistance. He takes two trips to the Himalayas, one more successful than the other. He connects with various spiritual men, and as a young adult chooses his lifelong guru. Setting that aside, Yogananda journeys from city to city. She survived only on the light of her spiritual connections. And even a female yogi who ate and drank nothing for fifty years. He reveres deathless and age-defying yogis. Yogananda tells countless stories of gurus and swamis traveling through time and space, adjusting their physical form to the situation. In general, I’m a spiritual skeptic so I admit that large parts of this book just didn’t reach me. Studying the spiritual aspects of yoga beyond a minimal ten-minutes-a-day meditation practice isn’t for me. But I’m a Western yoga student, focusing on the postures. I decided to read this book because I revived my dormant yoga practice recently. And as you might imagine, the spiritual stories include astral and metaphysical locations. But primarily, they’re set in locations throughout Yogananda’s home country of India. The stories are wide-ranging and vary between India and the U.S. Yogananda details episodes in his spiritual and bodily life from childhood until the book’s publication around 1945. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda is exactly that.
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