In a colorful and engaging style, Paramahansa Yogananda chronicles his life; highlights include his remarkable childhood, his search throughout India for an enlightened teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a renowned yoga master, and thirty years of growth and teaching in America. Yogananda also chronicles his meetings with well-known spiritual leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, and the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann.