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"As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has an importance both timely and timeless....His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing...of the spiritual wealth of India ever to be published in the West."- W. Y. Evans-Wentz, M.A., D.Litt., D.Sc., renowned scholar and author of many books on Eastern religion"I am grateful to you for granting me some insight into this fascinating world."- Thomas Mann, Nobel laureate "Few books...have had greater impact on popular theology than Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi."- Phyllis A. Tickle, Author, God-Talk in America "In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view."- Robert S. Ellwood, Ph.D., Chairman, School of Religion, University of Southern California"Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written."- Tom Butler-Bowdon, Author, 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment & Purpose"One of the most charmingly simple and self-revealing of life-stories...a veritable treasure-house of learning. The great personalities one meets in these pages...return to memory as friends endowed with rich spiritual wisdom, and one of the greatest of these is the God-intoxicated author himself."- Dr. Anna von Helmholtz-Phelan, Professor of English, University of Minnesot