Download the audiobook or e-book on December 1st only, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Autobiography of a Yogi. You can sign up now for a reminder email.
Download the audiobook or e-book on December 1st only, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Autobiography of a Yogi. You can sign up now for a reminder email.
From 7 to 9 pm PST, you can join the global webcast of heartfelt music, prayer and blessings with spiritual leaders around the world to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the date Autobiography of a Yogi was first published.
Plus, enjoy the world premiere of The Spark— a documentary short film revealing how Yogananda and his Autobiography ignited a spiritual revolution in the West. Together with Bodhi Tree, we are honored to bring this global webcast to devotees around the world.
Sister Gyanamata was Yogananda’s foremost woman disciple. “I have searched her life,” Yogananda said after her death, “and have found there not a single sin, not even of thought.”
Her last words were, “Too much joy! Oh, too much joy!”
Her devotion is immortalized in God Alone, a book of letters, including many from her to her Guru, and from Yogananda to her.
A large section in chapter 38 of The New Path delves into her saintly life and passing. From the book:
“I saw her sink into the watchful state of Spirit, beyond creation,” Master said later. Sister’s reward for years of perfect surrender to the Guru’s will was final liberation.
“She attained God through wisdom,” Master told us. “My path has been through joy.”
In the fall of 1967 I received my first meditation training from the Detroit industrialist and well-known yoga instructor J. Oliver Black. I was 18 years old at the time and had just finished high school, and Mr. Black was 74. For the next two years I received extensive training from him.…
What follows now is a very brief description of this truly great man, a man who made a major contribution to the shape and direction of my life, and to the lives of countless others as well.…
Yogananda’s practical, wide-ranging, and fascinating suggestions on how to have more energy and to live a radiantly healthy life. The principles in this book promote physical health and all-round well-being, mental clarity, and ease and inspiration in one’s spiritual life.
Volume 6 of the Wisdom of Yogananda series.
An article by Paramhansa Yogananda.
The subconscious mind is the memory mind and is always awake, memorizing conscious experiences during the state of wakefulness and keeping the body functioning during sleep.
While the conscious mind keeps in touch with the exterior world through the senses, the subconscious mind keeps a record of all human experiences.
The fourth book in the Wisdom of Yogananda series.
Is there a power that can reveal hidden veins of riches and uncover treasures of which we never dreamed? Is there a force that we can call upon to give success, health, happiness, and spiritual enlightenment? The saints and sages of India taught that there is such a power.…
An article by Paramhansa Yogananda.
The main causes of nervousness are 1) long-continued over-activity, 2) excessive stimulation of the senses from physical over-indulgence, 3) and mental over-stimulation from chronic fear, anger, sorrow, hatred, jealousy, discontent or similar harmful emotions.
Any violent or prolonged excitement disturbs the flow of life force through the nervous system.…
An article by Paramhansa Yogananda.
Why do some elderly people remain youthful and others not? Why are some young people already old? Diet and exercise play a part, but aging starts primarily with the mind.…
In America one finds many elderly people who have remained youthful. The American temperament is marked by qualities that make for mental youthfulness — active thinking, openness to new ideas, and a love of experimentation. Americans have the consciousness that everything is possible. Of all the people in the Western hemisphere, they are the most spiritually curious — one grows younger seeking Truth.
When Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952), known as the Father of Yoga in the West, first came to Philadelphia in 1924, he received a warm welcome as he brought to the City of Brotherly Love his teachings on Kriya Yoga, the advanced techniques of meditation which lead to realization of God, and the importance of a balanced health in the body, mind and soul.…
By the time he left Philadelphia, Yogananda had attracted a large group of students, including internationally famed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski.