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It seemed my life was suddenly over. She had been underperforming at school, so her mother took her to the doctor and explained about her fidgeting and lack of focus. “Where is he — not in America!?”

“Yes, he lives in Los Angeles.” Then he told me how he had attended a series of lectures and classes given by Paramahansaji soon after he had come to this country.

Whether one is interested or not in Kriya Yoga, Yogananda's teachings are effective, memorable and ahead of their time.

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(approx. When I expressed my great desire to meet one, he just shook his head and smiled. It proved to be an ideal place to concentrate on completing the book he had begun years before.

“Still vivid in my memory are the days spent in that peaceful seaside hermitage,” recounts Sri Daya Mata.

I remember how I used to walk around repeating inwardly again and again: illumination, illumination.

Personal life

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Lynne married her second husband, actor/singer Peter Land, in 1980. Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former judge of India’s Supreme Court, tells of visiting a town near St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) and asking a group of professors there “whether they had thought about what happens when man dies....One of the professors quietly went inside and came out with a book — Autobiography of a Yogi.

That was the first miracle. In a ‘Note to the London Edition,’ dated October 25, 1949, Paramahansa Yogananda wrote: ‘The arrangement for a London edition of this book has given me an opportunity to revise, and slightly to enlarge, the text. It will be my messenger when I am gone.’”

Tara Mata’s Role in the Book’s Publication

It then became Tara Mata’s responsibility to find a publisher.

Paramahansa Yogananda had met Tara Mata while conducting a series of lectures and classes in San Francisco in 1924. I tottered like a drunkard. After the service, the Master sat on a chair and most of the congregation went up to greet him.

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She left for New York just the same. During a conversation he mentioned Hindu philosophy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

2021 marked the 75th anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, one of the world's most acclaimed spiritual classics.

As the life story of Paramahansa Yogananda — who is often referred to as the Father of Yoga in the West — this book has touched the hearts and minds of millions around the globe.

Several months passed; Brother was unable to get the thought of the book and its author out of his mind, and that summer he decided to drive to Los Angeles to learn more about Paramahansaji’s teachings. Finally when I stood before him, he took my hand in his and I looked into those deep luminous tender eyes. He would be humbly touched that Autobiography of a Yogi has reached into all corners of the earth to people of every culture, race, religion, and age, and that it has been received with tremendous acclaim and enthusiasm throughout these fifty years.

A reader can consider himself fortunate if he finds one that does all three.