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    <body><![CDATA[each chapter is an inspiration in mindfulness, in joy... a humble revelation with the capacity to change the direction of ones seeing and being. There is a reward waiting at the end of this book.<br/><br/>Although the copy I own is a new reprint, I found an ancient little copy disintegrating in my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1535396">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An odyssey of an Eastern kind.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've owned this book for about 8 years.  I picked it up at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork.  All these years I thought that it was a woman on the cover.  Then one day I was at Costco and looking at a book called 'The 100 books You Totally Have To Read Before You Die' (that may or may not hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25240283">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book truly captured my heart. This version is THE original, UNmodified version. Everything is AS HE WROTE IT. Many wonderful descriptions of mystical experiences and his unfoldment as a man of God. Beautiful.<br/><br/>(The book with the orange cover had over 5,000 changes to the manuscript AF...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69302274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to read this book to really get the full impact; it has profoundly changed my life. The versions published by Self-Realization Fellowship are great, but the original 1946 version reviewed here (published by Crystal Clarity Publishers) is the best. A literary tour de force full of unbelievab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45403443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stopped sleeping for 2 weeks in 1997.  Gradually, I was able to establish a sleeping pattern that works for me.  A few years ago, I started reading this book aloud every night before going to sleep.  Now i sleep 7-8 hours nightly.  Thank you Yogananda.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting book but a very hard read-- it drags out for a while.  It has some interesting basics about buddhist and hindu thought.  And it is interesting as Paramhansa Yognanda started the self-realization fellowship in Encinitas.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The great wisdom and spiritual lessons through wonderful writings and teachings. Would have loved to been present at one of his lectures. A keeper that one can go back to as a reminder of what's most important.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The way of the Yogi offers not just flexibility for the body, but also for the mind.  This book is much more than an autobiography: it is an introduction to a way of life that embraces people of all creeds, and recognizes that miracles happen all the time.  Paramhansa Yogananda taught me to  recogni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27188569">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life.  I read it when I was in high school, and it opened my eyes to different levels of consciousness.  I consider this book to be a must read for anyone who is on a spiritual path.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me into a totally different culture, one more closely related to the culture in which Jesus Christ lived and taught. Fascinating. It is startling, informative and inspiring, but not a fast read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You will believe!  This and Atlas Shrugged are the two most influential books of my adult life.  I'm listing this here becaue I reread it periodically and did so again in 2005 (I'm listing only books read since 2005 for this list).  <br/><br/>When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/741975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this one. In fact, I'm going to have to read it again. I have a very hard time believing any of this is true...but, what if? <br/><br/>Truly, a magical read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just started and It is a little heavy but once you get used to the style there are many great life lessons in there.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Travel back to the early 21st century and feel the power of Spirit in Yogananda's confessions of his Awakening]]></body>
    
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