About the Book

Millions of spiritual seekers consider Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi their Gita or Bible of self-realization―a journey to discover our body, mind and soul’s oneness with God’s omnipresence. Oswald Pereira in this book captures both the essence of the autobiography and Yogananda’s core teachings. The author analyses the autobiography in the first part of the book, while in the second part, he evaluates Yogananda’s philosophy of universalism, unity and oneness of people and of religions and discusses the parallelisms between Krishna and Christ’s teachings, Kriya Yoga’s scientific technique of God-contact, and various other aspects of God. He compares Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda’s philosophy of universalism with that of Yogananda. Yogananda’s metaphysical gyan helps us to renew God-contact and rediscover the joy within. His philosophy of universalism and oneness is also very relevant in today’s environment of communal disharmony and discord.

About the Author

Oswald Pereira, an author of eight books, is a senior journalist with four decades of experience in The Times of India, Financial Express and Outlook. He was group editor of four defence magazines. His popular books are The Newsroom Mafia, The Krishna-Christ Connexion and How to Create Miracles in Our Daily Life. His articles have appeared in several Speaking Tree anthologies published by The Times of India. He runs a spiritual website, https://yourspositively.com. Pereira also taught at the Times School of Journalism. In his forays outside journalism, he was Group Vice President of an IT company. Oswald is a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, and practises Kriya Yoga.