Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography of a Yogi is a spiritual memoir by Paramahansa Yogananda, first published in 1946. The book is illustrated with photographs.

In this memoir, Paramahansa Yogananda chronicles his life from childhood through his travels in India and his encounters with spiritual teachers.

He places special emphasis on his training with the yoga master Sri Yukteswar and his later work teaching yoga in the United States.

The book moves between biography, philosophy, and accounts of spiritual experiences, while offering a first-person view of Indian religious life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

"I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future."

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.