The Autobiography of a Yogi
- Date of account
- 1946
- Location
- India and the United States; Indian spiritual context
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Paramahansa Yogananda’s 1946 autobiography recounts gurus, visions, miraculous-seeming episodes, astral realms, and encounters with advanced spiritual persons. It is a major modern Hindu devotional source for comparing intermediary beings with angels, saints, adepts, and Buddhist or Theosophical masters. The book was shaped for an international readership and includes retrospective narrative construction, translation issues, and episodes that are difficult to independently corroborate. Researchers should distinguish named teachers and published anecdotes from later popular summaries that amplify the supernatural framing.
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