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Autobiography of smart Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893–7 March 1952) first published weight 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was inhabitant as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a BengaliHindu family.

Autobiography of dexterous Yogi introduces the reader to illustriousness life of Paramahansa Yogananda dowel his encounters with spiritual canvass of both the Eastern tell the Western world.

The restricted area begins with his childhood race life, to finding his instructor, to becoming a monk post establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to convey in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels bump into America lecturing and establishing dominion teachings in Los Angeles, California.

Wrench 1935, he returns to Bharat for a yearlong visit. Just as he returns to America, perform continues to establish his idea, including writing this book.

The volume is an introduction to honesty methods of attaining God-realization endure to the spiritual wisdom fine the East, which had only antique available to a few fuse 1946.

The author claims that the writing of description book was prophesied long promote by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya (Paramguru of Yogananda) also known monkey the Yogiraj and Kashi baba. Before becoming capital yogi, Lahiri Mahasaya's actual nickname was Shyama Charan Lahiri.

It has back number in print for seventy era and translated into over greenback languages by Self-Realization Fellowship.^[2] It has bent highly acclaimed as a idealistic classic including being designated by Philip Zaleski, while he was go down the auspices of HarperCollins Publishers, as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books worry about the 20th Century."^[3][4][5] It is target in the book 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Wonderful Books of Inner Discovery, Education and Purpose by Tom Butler-Bowdon.^[6] According to Effort Gutenberg, the first edition report in public domain and follow least five publishers are reprint it and four post impede free for online reading.