“I am so happy to know you understand how I live.” “Your sacred life is a daily demonstration of the truth uttered by Christ: ‘Man shall not live by bread, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’” “I see you realize that energy flows to your body from the ether, sun, and air.”Ī swift smile broke over her face. “I live by God’s light.” How simple her reply, how Einsteinian! “Certainly you could not have lived on that, for twelve whole years?” “It is paper-thin, the size of a small coin.” She added, “I take it for sacramental reasons if it is unconsecrated, I am unable to swallow it.” “No, except a consecrated rice-flour wafer, once every morning at six o’clock.” “Don’t you eat anything?” I wanted to hear the answer from her own lips.

At his meeting with Neumann, Yogananda asked…. It is said that Neumann survived without food or water and her only intake was one consecrated sacred Host a day. In 1935 Yogananda travelled to Bavaria to meet Therese Neumann, the famous Catholic Mystic who was also a stigmatic. No other leader in the world has attained the secure niche in the hearts of his people that Gandhi occupies for India’s millions. His soft brown eyes shone with intelligence, sincerity, and discrimination this statesman has matched wits and emerged the victor in a thousand legal, social, and political battles. 'The tiny 100-pound saint radiated physical, mental, and spiritual health.

The result is wondrous, and profoundly inspiring.' Yogananda chronicles his life's journey and his many encounters with spiritual luminaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Therese Neumann, and many more.

It details the life of Paramahansa Yogananda - one of India's Spiritual guru's, who is often referred to particularly in the West as, the Father of Yoga. This book is the original edition first published in 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the 20th century's best-loved spiritual classics.

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