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Autobiography of a Yogi Summary & Review: Make a Spiritual Life Practical
Autobiography of a Yogi summary: Yogananda’s life story turns saints and Kriya Yoga into a practice you can run on a Tuesday:…
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Paramahansa Yogananda
"Live calmly active and actively calm."
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, trained under Sri Yukteswar, and spent thirty years teaching Kriya Yoga in the United States. He founded Self-Realization Fellowship and wrote Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), the memoir that made a yogic life story a Western classic.
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Kriya as a trainable skill
Attention, breath, and a daily seat — not a mood you wait to feel.
East and West as two wings
A useful job and an inner practice in the same person.
Notable Quotes
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."— Autobiography of a Yogi
"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you."— Autobiography of a Yogi
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Autobiography of a Yogi Summary & Review: Make a Spiritual Life Practical
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