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Autobiography of a YOGI
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SCThornley
Posted 2006-06-21 5:30 PM (#56450)
Subject: Autobiography of a YOGI


Read it

i'm reading it now and it's really good


you can read it on-line

http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/ay/index.html
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flipcat
Posted 2006-06-22 6:05 AM (#56481 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


I have climbed into that book recently myself and I am enjoiying it (even in the small patches of time I get to crawl through it).
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Sunnybird
Posted 2006-09-01 4:10 PM (#63414 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


Is this really the entire book online or an adapted/shortened version?!

Sunnybird
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SCThornley
Posted 2006-09-01 7:55 PM (#63447 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


it's the whole thing
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Sunnybird
Posted 2006-09-01 7:59 PM (#63448 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


wonder why they'd put the whole thing online?! cool though as I've been meaning to read it!
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SCThornley
Posted 2006-09-03 9:32 AM (#63509 - in reply to #56450)
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i 'da' know?

it's full of majic and stuff, sometimes like a majical tale of another world.

but it's fun to read.

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Betsy
Posted 2006-09-03 10:48 AM (#63511 - in reply to #63448)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


Sunnybird - 2006-09-01 7:59 PM

wonder why they'd put the whole thing online?! cool though as I've been meaning to read it!


There was an extremely nasty court fight between Ananda (the group founded by Kriyananda, a follower of Yogananda's, which has posted AY online) and the Self Realization Fellowship (the group that Yogananda originally founded) over the rights to the first edition of Autobiography of a Yogi, among other things.

Here is info about it from the Ananda site:

http://www.ananda.org/news/self-realization_fellowship.html

If I recall correctly, the SRF did not have the rights to the first edition; they didn't publish it, and I guess enough time had passed that the copyright of the first edition had lapsed, so Ananda scooped it up. SRF sued, and lost. I find the whole saga to be dispiriting.

I emphasize 'first edition' because there are significant editorial changes that were made in later editions of AY, after Yogananda's death, by people high up in the leadership of SRF.

I am glad that the first edition is available. It is as Yogananda wrote it, wiithout the subsequent editorial "additions" and "improvements".

Betsy

PS-- I'm not a member of Ananda, nor of the SRF. I do have a very strong interest in Yogananda, because my beloved late older brother was a devotee of Yogananda's beginning in the late 1960s until his death in 1977.
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Darin Hamel
Posted 2006-09-05 4:35 PM (#63694 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


I read it and while I think he exagerated a bit, it did read like it was written by someone who has "been there" if that makes any sense.
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1234
Posted 2006-12-23 8:52 AM (#72223 - in reply to #56450)
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wonderful piece of work!!!

i really enjoyed it during the travelling by train in india.

always remember, when it comes to my hands again.

george





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john777
Posted 2006-12-29 11:05 PM (#72461 - in reply to #56450)
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I enjoyed this book a lot. Some of it does sound exaggerated/romanticized, but it is easy to be enthralled by the supernatural tales of some of the many beings he meets. When I first read it, I remember it having a deep impact on my life. I bought a copy to my mother who is a hardcore christian. I told her she didn't have to look at 2000 year old stories of miraculous healings and people raising from the dead. There are stories of that in this century too! It's too bad his organization got all political.

-John
Circle of Healers
http://circleofhealers.com
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agirlinparis
Posted 2007-01-22 3:33 PM (#74946 - in reply to #72461)
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Bay Guy
Posted 2007-01-23 10:26 PM (#75086 - in reply to #72461)
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I guess I'll have to try it again.  I was very turned off by some of the initial "magic" in the book.  I have a hard time with magic.

.. bg

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tourist
Posted 2007-01-24 10:00 AM (#75108 - in reply to #75086)
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Me too, BG. But it was a great story even ignoring the magic stuff.
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Cyndi
Posted 2007-01-24 10:09 AM (#75110 - in reply to #75108)
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My favorite book on the subject of magic, is by Wayne Dyer.  It's called "Real Magic".

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SCThornley
Posted 2007-01-24 10:14 AM (#75111 - in reply to #56450)
Subject: RE: Autobiography of a YOGI


I think majic is funny, entertaining.

Would you like to see a card trick?

Wanna see what I can do with different parts of my body?

WHOOPS! lookee there, got your nose, see?

Ah, majic/magic whatever, anything to get the fannies in the seats, or get the books off the shelves.

You never can be too sure though, so, over all good entertaining book, quite possibly some of it was imagination, and imagination is sometimes more important than intelligence or genius.



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joscmt
Posted 2007-01-24 10:29 AM (#75116 - in reply to #56450)
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About magic- when my nephew was about 2 yrs old we'd play the "got your nose" game with him. Unfortunately, he'd freak out (!!!!!) thinking we had really taken his nose! He'd start bawling and crying for his nose back. It was heart wrenching. Poor thing- not too into the nose game. We quit playing it with him. Now that he's 12, he's totally embarassed by that story. He's a HUGE prankster and way "too cool" for all that..
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