2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Paramahansa Yogananda’s spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. Our Devotee2Devotee Facebook Group is hosting our annual group reading and online discussion, and we invite you to join in as thousands of devotees worldwide partake in the yearly tradition of this daily reading. From November 18th through January 5th (Guruji’s Birthday), a chapter a day will be read (49 chapters for 49 days). We will be using the Orange Cover and Complete Version of Autobiography of a Yogi published by Self-Realization Fellowship (copyright 1946-present). You may also use the new Deluxe 75th Anniversary Edition that is available for pre-order now.
Our group readings have been a blessing for many. Master is joyfully with us — guiding and blessing us! We ask that you please keep ALL posts positive and uplifting — and directly pertaining to the “AY” material. You may also supplement the event by posting contemporary and historical photos of places in India and America, as well as images of those mentioned in the text. All sincere devotees of our Guru are welcome to join us. Please follow the reading schedule listed below. Jai Guru!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1790419441168382
Posted below are some helpful resources if you need to buy a copy of the complete version of Autobiography of a Yogi. Please note that the SRF version of AY is copyrighted, so there is no legal online version. AY is available in several formats: hardcover, paperback, audio cd, iTunes e-book, and Kindle e-book. SRF sells AY in numerous languages.
AY listing in SRF online bookstore – including all language translations and formats: https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/product/autobiography-of-a-yogi-srf/
The Autobiography of a Yogi — 75th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is available as a Pre-Order (delivery after November 30th): https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/product/autobiography-of-a-yogi-deluxe-75th-anniversary-edition/
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda is available from the YSS online bookstore in a variety of languages:
https://bookstore.yssofindia.org/product/autobiography-of-a-yogi-(english)
YSS is offering a Free eBook download (Offer available only in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka — valid up to November 26, 2021):
https://yssofindia.org/get-a-copy-of-the-autobiography-of-a-yogi
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AY Reading Schedule – Join Us When You Can!
Nov 18th: Chapter 1 – My Parents and Early Life
Nov 19th: Chapter 2 – My Mother’s Death and the Mystic Amulet
Nov 20th: Chapter 3 – The Saint With Two Bodies
Nov 21st: Chapter 4 – My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
Nov 22nd: Chapter 5 – A “Perfume Saint” Displays His Wonders
Nov 23rd: Chapter 6 – The Tiger Swami
Nov 24th: Chapter 7 – The Levitating Saint
Nov 25th: Chapter 8 – India’s Great Scientist, J. C. Bose
Nov 26th: Chapter 9 – The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
Nov 27th: Chapter 10 – I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
Nov 28th: Chapter 11 – Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
Nov 29th: Chapter 12 – Years in My Master’s Hermitage
Nov 30th: Chapter 13 – The Sleepless Saint
Dec 1sth: Chapter 14 – An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
Dec 2nd: Chapter 15 – The Cauliflower Robbery
Dec 3rd: Chapter 16 – Outwitting the Stars
Dec 4th: Chapter 17 – Sasi and the Three Sapphires
Dec 5th: Chapter 18 – A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
Dec 6th: Chapter 19 – My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
Dec 7th: Chapter 20 – We Do Not Visit Kashmir
Dec 8th: Chapter 21 – We Visit Kashmir
Dec 9th: Chapter 22 – The Heart of a Stone Image
Dec 10th: Chapter 23 – I Receive My University Degree
Dec 11th: Chapter 24 – I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
Dec 12th: Chapter 25 – Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
Dec 13th: Chapter 26 – The Science of Kriya Yoga
Dec 14th: Chapter 27 – Founding a Yoga School in Ranchi
Dec 15th: Chapter 28 – Kashi, Reborn and Discovered
Dec 16th: Chapter 29 – Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
Dec 17th: Chapter 30 – The Law of Miracles
Dec 18th: Chapter 31 – An Interview With the Sacred Mother
Dec 19th: Chapter 32 – Rama Is Raised From the Dead
Dec 20th: Chapter 33 – Babaji, Yogi-Christ of Modern India
Dec 21st: Chapter 34 – Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
Dec 22nd: Chapter 35 – The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
Dec 23rd: Chapter 36 – Babaji’s Interest in the West
Dec 24th: Chapter 37 – I Go to America
Dec 25th: Chapter 38 – Luther Burbank — A Saint Amid the Roses
Dec 26th: Chapter 39 – Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
Dec 27th: Chapter 40 – I Return to India
Dec 28th: Chapter 41 – An Idyl in South India
Dec 29th: Chapter 42 – Last Days With My Guru
Dec 30th: Chapter 43 – The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
Dec 31st: Chapter 44 – With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
Jan 1st: Chapter 45 – The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother”
Jan 2nd: Chapter 46 – The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
Jan 3rd: Chapter 47 – I Return to the West
Jan 4th: Chapter 48 – At Encinitas in California
Jan 5th: Chapter 49 – The Years 1940– 1951