Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga

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1 iii Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga z ANYA P. FOXEN ...

1 iv Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence i ...

v A Yogi is a man who thinks and thinks And never has time for forty winks, Seldom eats, rarely drinks, And is usually from Rang ...

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vii Contents List of Figures  ix Preface  xi Note on Transliteration  xv Dramatis Personae  xvii Introduction  1 The Turbaned S ...

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ix Figures 1.1 “Bed of Thorns,” National Geographic 24 (1913) 30 1.2 “American Women Victims of Hindu Mysticism,” Washington Pos ...

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xi Preface This book is somewhat of a personal ouroboros, which is perhaps fitting given the yogic significance of coiled serpen ...

xii Preface xii That summer I finally learned to do a push- up, decided to abandon my plan to pursue a PhD in Victorian literatu ...

Preface xiii xiii any one thing. It’s about yoga but not about āsana. It’s about mystical India, but it’s also about science. It ...

xiv Preface xiv they were not directly involved, this book would not exist without the sup- port of my parents, friends, and col ...

xv Note on Transliteration Sanskrit and other non- English terms appear in italics and are transliterated fol- lowing standard l ...

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xvii Dramatis Personae A. K.  Mozumdar, Bhagat Singh Thind, Yogi Hari Rama, Yogi Rishi Singh Gherwal, Yogi Wassan Singh, unaffil ...

xviii Dramatis Personae xviii Swami Satyananda (b. Manamohan Mazumder), childhood friend and life- long associate of Yogananda, ...

xix Biography of a Yogi ...