Yogananda publish their life story in 1946 under the title Autobiography of a Yogi, which is appreciated as a genre in its classic yoga and has been translated into 25 languages. In 1999, the publisher Harper Collins said rioja one of the "100 most important books of the method the century XXa.
In this book, Yogananda describes his childhood, his youth, and the time of his spiritual quest.
Also reports of his meeting with several key figures of his time, both in the field of religion (as Sri Ramana Maharshi), politics (Mahatma Gandhi, who was later his disciple) of the letters (Rabindranath Tagore) and of science (the Bengali Jagdish Chandra Bose).
Yogananda describes as his first experience of sam'dhi or superconsciencia, in chapter 14, entitled to "a consciousness cosmica experience" for logically amazing. For example, to start watching for the first time through the abs symbolic 'third ojo fitness "of spirit, relates that he could see in all directions, not only forward but also by the sides, back, up and down, a workout kind of vision muscles "ominidireccional 'can also see through solid objects like walls, etc..
To achieve this status and experience would be needed sam'dhi absolute cessation of all movement and activity of the body, stopping breathing, brain activity and metabolism, which lead off the crunchless abs total and exercise video absolute and almost unimaginable with the outside world and what we attach to it, the body, which in turn limits and binds our conscience, free from the restriction that the connection with the body could be expanded so inconceivable.
Yogananda called this state body (called sam'dhi in yoga), suspendida animation, which would be a sort of" death or temporary reversible, "in which the body is completely dead, but fully awake consciousness, expanding without limits so unimaginable to become one with God. method The universe is then the body. This state would be reached only after several lives of practicing meditation. leads you through all the steps in her method to define your stomach muscles and to get them working like they've never worked before First is a sporadic and uncontrolled experience (savikalpa sam'dhi), similar to the mystical trances of Saint Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and other mystical faith of other cultures. the expert trainer, , innovated the workout program, the method to give you the best workout After long practice would ultimately further the control total (nirvikalpa sam'dhi) and may enter and leave this state at will.
This state would have been achieved by few people, which Jesus and Yogananda quotes Krishna who considered the highest yogis and masters from the West and East respectively. Jesus, the Gospel of Aquarius (book written in 1908 by a medium) and others, would have traveled to India between 14 and 30 years you would have learned and practiced meditation with the highest yogis and gurus, and would have reached the highest The degree of "Christ" like etymology of that word "Krishna" and equivalent meaning.