Contents

[ Preface, By W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
] [ List of Illustrations
]

Chapter

  1. [ My Parents and Early Life ]
  2. [ Mother’s Death and the Amulet]
  3. [ The Saint with Two Bodies (Swami Pranabananda)]
  4. [ My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalaya]
  5. [ A “Perfume Saint” Performs his Wonders]
  6. [ The Tiger Swami]
  7. [ The Levitating Saint (Nagendra Nath Bhaduri)]
  8. [ India’s Great Scientist and Inventor, Jagadis Chandra Bose]
  9. [ The Blissful Devotee and his Cosmic Romance (Master Mahasaya)]
  10. [I Meet my Master, Sri Yukteswar]
  11. [Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban]
  12. [Years in my Master’s Hermitage]
  13. [The Sleepless Saint (Ram Gopal Muzumdar)]
  14. [An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness]
  15. [The Cauliflower Robbery]
  16. [Outwitting the Stars]
  17. [Sasi and the Three Sapphires]
  18. [A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker (Afzal Khan)]
  19. [My Guru Appears Simultaneously in Calcutta and Serampore]
  20. [We Do Not Visit Kashmir]
  21. [We Visit Kashmir]
  22. [The Heart of a Stone Image]
  23. [My University Degree]
  24. [I Become a Monk of the Swami Order]
  25. [Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini]
  26. [The Science of Kriya Yoga]
  27. [Founding of a Yoga School at Ranchi]
  28. [Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered]
  29. [Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools]
  30. [The Law of Miracles]
  31. [An Interview with the Sacred Mother (Kashi Moni Lahiri)]
  32. [Rama is Raised from the Dead]
  33. [Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India]
  34. [Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas]
  35. [The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya]
  36. [Babaji’s Interest in the West]
  37. [I Go to America]
  38. [Luther Burbank — An American Saint]
  39. [Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria]
  40. [I Return to India]
  41. [An Idyl in South India]
  42. [Last Days with my Guru]
  43. [The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar]
  44. [With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha]
  45. [The Bengali “Joy-Permeated Mother” (Ananda Moyi Ma)]
  46. [The Woman Yogi who Never Eats (Giri Bala)]
  47. [I Return to the West]
  48. [At Encinitas in California]

ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. [ Frontispiece ]
  2. [ Map of India]
  3. [ My Father, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh]
  4. [ My Mother]
  5. [ Swami Pranabananda, “The Saint With Two Bodies”]
  6. [ My Elder Brother, Ananta]
  7. [ Festival Gathering in the Courtyard of my Guru’s Hermitage in Serampore]
  8. [ Nagendra Nath Bhaduri, “The Levitating Saint”]
  9. [ Myself at Age 6]
  10. [Jagadis Chandra Bose, Famous Scientist]
  11. [Two Brothers of Therese Neumann, at Konnersreuth]
  12. [Master Mahasaya, the Blissful Devotee]
  13. [Jitendra Mazumdar, my Companion on the “Penniless Test” at Brindaban]
  14. [Ananda Moyi Ma, the “Joy-Permeated Mother”]
  15. [Himalayan Cave Occupied by Babaji]
  16. [Sri Yukteswar, My Master]
  17. [Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles Headquarters]
  18. [Self-Realization Church of All Religions, Hollywood]
  19. [My Guru’s Seaside Hermitage at Puri]
  20. [Self-Realization Church of All Religions, San Diego]
  21. [My Sisters — Roma, Nalini, and Uma]
  22. [My Sister Uma]
  23. [The Lord in His Aspect as Shiva]
  24. [Yogoda Math, Hermitage at Dakshineswar]
  25. [Ranchi School, Main Building]
  26. [Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered]
  27. [Bishnu, Motilal Mukherji, my Father, Mr. Wright, T.N. Bose, Swami Satyananda]
  28. [Group of Delegates to the International Congress of Religious Liberals, Boston, 1920]
  29. [A Guru and Disciple in an Ancient Hermitage]
  30. [Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India]
  31. [Lahiri Mahasaya]
  32. [A Yoga Class in Washington, D.C.]
  33. [Luther Burbank]
  34. [Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth, Bavaria]
  35. [The Taj Mahal at Agra]
  36. [Shankari Mai Jiew, Only Living Disciple of the great Trailanga Swami]
  37. [Krishnananda with his Tame Lioness]
  38. [Group on the Dining Patio of my Guru’s Serampore Hermitage]
  39. [Miss Bletch, Mr. Wright, and myself — in Egypt]
  40. [Rabindranath Tagore]
  41. [Swami Keshabananda, at his Hermitage in Brindaban]
  42. [Krishna, Ancient Prophet of India]
  43. [Mahatma Gandhi, at Wardha]
  44. [Giri Bala, the Woman Yogi Who Never Eats]
  45. [Mr. E. E. Dickinson]
  46. [My Guru and Myself]
  47. [Ranchi Students]
  48. [Encinitas]
  49. [Conference in San Francisco]
  50. [Swami Premananda]
  51. [My Father]