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Found 8 comments on Autobiography of a Yogi:

u/snickerpops · 7 pointsr/Meditation

The best thing would be for me to point you to where I found out about it. A yogi named Paramahansa Yogananda came to the West in 1920 and wrote the Autobiography of a Yogi which became quite well known and inspired the careers of many well known yoga teachers.

The organization he started explains the classical purpose of yoga here and goes deeper into explaining the eight steps of yoga

Classical yoga has spirituality as its base, which many redditors are allergic to. I was pretty skeptical myself in the beginning, but through the yoga methods they taught I learned to prove to myself the value of these systems in a step-by-step systematic way.

There are a great many yoga paths, but I am linking this one because it worked very well for me.

u/pour_some_sugar · 3 pointsr/Meditation

One of the 'classics' is Autobiography of a Yogi and another wonderful book is Eknath Easwaran's translation of the Bhagavad Gita

They basically go hand-in-hand as the Bhagavad Gita is one of the founding documents related to classical yoga (the quest to unite the individual soul with the universe).

The books don't so much give a history of meditation as much as provide a wonderful background / introduction to Eastern philosophy as well as being fun to read and inspiring to many people.

The Bhagavad Gita made me want to meditate, and the Autobiography of a Yogi gave me the further inspiration to seek the lessons from the author in how to meditate, as well as a philosophical background on classical yoga meditation systems beyond the 'yoga lite' health club version that is so prevalent today.

u/ziegfried · 3 pointsr/IAmA

I can point you to the book that launched my exploration of that third level -- it's called "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda.

It was written in the '40s and has been a bestseller ever since. It's about the life of this guy who used techniques of meditation to get to that higher level of life, and who brought techniques of how to do that to the West.

I started using those techniques, and they worked wonderfully - it was direct proof, and although I had to put in effort, I could prove to myself whether it was really true through my own experiences (rather than having to rely on others).

If you want to talk to more people like me you can probably find them through centers you can find on this website. If you can make it down to Southern California there are some amazing places, and they have monastics there who are pretty amazing themselves. It's basically people who have dedicated their lives to focusing on this pure goodness that they have learned to find within themselves, through calming the mind so that it stops obscuring that internal "sun" of goodness.

If you find my words helpful I am happy to keep discussing it with you -- I understand how challenging life can be, and don't know what I would do without this stuff.

But it doesn't have to be this particular path -- it's like the way that many people find music healing. Any type of music can heal, as long it helps bring a connection with that level of life that healing comes from. Jazz, Classical, Soul, even Metal -- it can all be healing, as long as there is an artist that is in touch with that healing source, then they can channel it through their music. So there are also different paths to that healing level of life, and they all have different names, but they can all be channels to that level, or not, just as not all music is healing. But the wonderful thing is that when you find something that works, it can be a tremendously rich source of good things.

u/bovisrex · 3 pointsr/books

A physics-guru friend of mine recommends this three-pronged punch: In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, The Tao of Physics, and Autobiography of a Yogi. Haven't gotten to the third one yet myself, but the first two were quite excellent.

u/rebble_yell · 2 pointsr/Meditation

Yes, classical yoga was designed to bring a person beyond the ego (so are basically all meditation systems and even religions for that matter!

So classical yoga has a great introduction in the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

It does not deal with the ego so much as it sets out the background of classical yoga. Paramahansa has lessons for the techniques to take one to soul consciousness beyond ego consciousness. The great thing about this path is that you can easily meet the monks and nuns who have used the techniques to go beyond ego consciousness, and so you can get in-person first-hand guidance from them.

Also, Michael Singer's book The Untethered Soul is an amazing book, and very clearly describes the process of going beyond the ego in daily life.

I would start with Michael Singer's book if you are more intellectually inclined, and the first one if you are more spiritually inclined.

In this context the soul is the "real you" as opposed to the ego or the acquired identity that masquerades as you and creates your problems and difficulties.

u/VictoryCoffee · 1 pointr/atheism

There are a lot of miracles claimed in this book, and when I have time later I'll take a look and see if I can provide a good example. The book, by the way, is considered a "classic" in the spiritual world, and the author a supposedly authentic guru or spiritual master. So it should be a good source for something to discuss.