Autobiography of a Yogi

Whenever he would hear about somebody, he would want to go and visit them and, and be present.

And so in his, in his famous work, The Autobiography of a Yogi, there's an entire chapter which is just about his visit to, uh, Therese Neumann.

And when he goes to see her, um, it's, it's very interesting that he's on this tour through Europe, you know, seeing all the sights, kind of the grand tour idea, and he says to the, to the people he's with, he is determined to go to Connersu- Connorswoth and see the saint, is the way he puts it.

You know, he has no problem canonizing her already, um, from what he has heard.

But this is a book that consistently over the past six years appears in our top 10 every year, most recommended books.

And it is Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, published in 1946.

How did this book impact you?

This was the first book that even gave me an idea of what yoga could possibly be, what there was some science behind all of it.

So final question.

We ask every single guest this question.

Steve Jobs famously gave a copy of Yogananda's book, Autobiography of a Yogi, to every person who attended his memorial service.

What book would you want to give to the people who attend yours?

And the second contribution to where I'm experiencing myself now is reading two books or was reading two books.

One of them was Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda.

If you don't know it, I can highly recommend it.

And this meeting of the Indian saints and their power to do all these extraordinary things, which in themselves, of course, mean nothing, but they were using their power to demonstrate we have dominion over all things, which, of course, is what the course teaches.

So if anyone wants to listen to those episodes, they're available.

So that's great.

I also enjoyed that book, Autobiography of a Yogi, but a long time ago.

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So book number six, this consistently appears every year in our top 10 recommended books, Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, published in 1946.

What a book.

Amazing.

Final question.

And we ask this of every single guest.

Steve Jobs famously gave a copy of Yogananda's book, Autobiography of a Yogi, to every attendee at his memorial service.

What book would you want to give at your memorial service?

And then there is now the trending, the Kriya practice, which was originally introduced to the West by Paramahansa Yogananda, I think in the 1950s or so.

And, um, he writes about it in his still famous, still trending book from the 1960s till today, Autobiography of a Yogi, and I highly recommend you, you read that, uh, to understand, you know, the impact of it, because it is said to fast-forward your progress by a factor of around three thousand, I believe, right? And, um, depending of course, on the number of rounds and so forth that you do, you know? But you can very easily, you know, uh, increase the progression rate, you know, quite substantially.

Now, who doesn't want to use the high-speed lift to go up to the top floor or the penthouse of the Burj Khalifa? Who wants to walk 150 floors on the staircase, right? [chuckles] So knowing these things are there and, uh, uh, I'm offering all these protocols free of charge, right? So you just go into my YouTube channel, uh, and search for, uh, uh, you know, all the videos that's regarding, you know, the various practices and, um, even download my free five-minute yoga meditation program from my website, yogawellness786.com, and, uh, get started from there.

And, uh, no one's forcing you to go and spend hours a day, but you can dial it up.

It was going to be just me living in a room no bigger than a closet.

But what if this was an opportunity? What if the kingdom of God truly was within? What if those men who chose Himalayan caves and incessant meditation weren't crazy? What if the prison was the world and the way out was within? These ideas arose spontaneously as I read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

And so began my journey away from the world.

I found that there was an intense joy that flowed like a secret spring when I crossed my legs and closed my eyes and did as Yogananda told me to do.