Thomas hunt morgan autobiography of a yogi
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Tridip Suhrud is a scholar, writer and translator who works on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Gujarat and the Gandhian intellectual tradition. As the director and chief editor of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (2012-17), Ahmedabad, he was responsible for creating a digital archive-the Gandhi Heritage Portal-of all of M.K. Gandhi's works. Apart from a number of books on Gandhi's life, Suhrud has co-edited the critical annotated edition of Hind Swaraj, edited the critial annotated edition of An Autobiography, or My Experiments with Truth, translated Narayan Desai's four-volume biography of Gandhi, My Life Is My Message, and translated the four-volume epic Gujarati novel, Sarasvatichandra.
Suhrud is presently translating the diaries of Manu Gandhi, covering the
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Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda) An Overrated Spiritual “Classic”
[My 2-star Amazon review (February 14, 2013) of “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda.]
I have read well over a thousand spiritual texts over the past forty years, and one of the first ones I read was Autobiography of a Yogi. And I not only read the book, I signed up for meditation lessons from the Self-Realization Fellowship. I religiously practiced the SRF lessons for a number of months, but as I devoured other spiritual literature and experimented with other meditation techniques, it became apparent to me that SRF was a limited spiritual vehicle and that Paramahansa Yogananda was a vastly overrated, not fully enlightened, guru. In the monumental spiritual text Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (which is a quantum leap better than Autobiography of a Yogi), Yogananda visits Maharshi, the foremost twentieth-century Indian guru, and ask him questions that a full enlightened guru would not ask another one. For example, he asks “Why is there suffering?” and “What can be done to get rid of it? As the exchange makes clear, Yogananda was a yogi-seeker, not a Self-realized sage like Maharshi.
In the forty years since I jettisoned the SRF lessons, I have become an ultra-advanced spir
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Keywords: Arthur Writer, anti-reductionism, theory