30 years ago, when my Teacher of TM (Transcendental Meditation) suggest the book to me, to satisfy all my deep hunger for spiritual knowledge, I was reading Shri Yoganandas book the first time. My experinces where tremendous, I had at that time spiritual visions, that touched the 7 heavens. It is a direct gate to the realm of God himself. Yoganandas speech/words are simply but heart-touching, full of wisdom und his devotion to his Divine Guru, Shri Yuktheshwar-jie are heart melting, especially the story when his Guru come in a real and a new body, after he just left the earth and tell him all about his work beyond our world in the heavens, it is more then divine. The impression it made to my live is to difficult to express, it would need a own book to prescribe all the effects it had in my life, only one suggestion. Take and have the joy/bliss of the blessing from this great yogic tradition. I humbly bow down my head and say thank your dear Shri Yogananda for let having us the taste of your experiences about your journey to the highest enlightenment. Frank Lotz, a German TM- teacher, author in the field of Vedic health. It is the Top Nr. 1 book, if I hade a choice to take only one book with me, it would be Autobiography of a Yogi.