Sharing my experience of reading the book, Autobiography of a Yogi-Sri Paramahansa Yogananda With simple language, flowing from heart of Yogi , it makes a wonderful reading, takes us to different spiritual world. Renaissance of Yoga in modern times and popularized world-over. It reads, The great Yogi Lahiri Mahasaya brought a practical message suited to the needs of today's world. The excellent ec onomic and religious conditions of ancient India no longer obtain. Th e great master therefore did not encourage the old ideal of a yogi as a wandering ascetic with a begging bowl. He stressed, rather, th e advantages to a yogi of earning his own living, of not being de pendent on a hard-pressed society for support, and of practicing yoga in the privacy of his home. To this counsel Lahiri Mahasaya added the heartenin g force of his own example. He was a ‘streamlined’ model of a yogi. H is way of life, as planned by Babaji, was intended to be a guide...
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