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Paramhansa Yogananda delighted audiences, students, and friends with stories drawn from his own life experiences and the people he met in his native India, as well as during his global travels and cross-country teaching campaigns in the United States.
Lovingly told by his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, his nephew, Hare Krishna Ghosh, and Yogananda himself, these stories are timeless in their relevance. Addressing the age-old challenges of society at large, as well as the individual human predicament, these stories often offer an impersonal perspective on our traits and tendencies.
Paramhansa Yogananda's stories demonstrate an expanded worldview that includes everyone. While fully engaging in the modern world of his day, he never identified with its limitations or tantalizing, illusive promises. With courage and willingness to stand up for universal truths, he shows us that we have a choice in how we are going to live and in using our inherent soul ability we possess to adapt and change, even drastically, when called upon to do so.
Each story includes a "Gem of Wisdom" in Yogananda's own words. By giving us a clear path to overcoming the limitations of ego, adjusting our attitudes, and expanding our hearts, he offers us a priceless and lasting gift that we can then share with receptive hearts of any age.
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Born in 1893, Yogananda was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West.Yogananda arrived in America in 1920 and traveled throughout the country on what he called his "spiritual campaigns." Hundreds of thousands filled the largest halls in major cities to see the yoga master from India. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952.Yogananda's initial impact on Western culture was truly impressive. His lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. His Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. Translated into more than fifty languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day.Before embarking on his mission, Yogananda received this admonition from his teacher, Swami Sri Yukteswar: "The West is high in material attainments but lacking in spiritual understanding. It is God's will that you play a role in teaching mankind the value of balancing the material with an inner, spiritual life."In addition to Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda's spiritual legacy includes music, poetry, and extensive commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Christian Bible, showing the principles of Self-realization as the unifying truth underlying all true religions. Through his teachings and his Kriya Yoga path millions of people around the world have found a new way to connect personally with God.His mission, however, was far broader than all this. It was to help usher the whole world into Dwapara Yuga, the new Age of Energy in which we live. "Someday," Swami Kriyananda wrote, "I believe he will be seen as the avatar of Dwapara Yuga: the way shower for a new age."
