One very interesting discussions in this book is the one about the differences between a Yogi and a Swami. Also, even after reading this book, one can still be the same person as before but definitely, there will be lot of gyaan gained. One thing is assured that Reading the book will still maintain your sense of humour in tact. There is town here called MiddleSex and and an hour down the road there is another called Climax. :-) Am not sure if there was something at some distance before the first one.
Spiritual quest begins in childhood
Yogananda writes openly about his intense desire, even in childhood, to know what lay behind all the experiences of life and death. As a child he asked, 'What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?' The death of his mother when he was 11, to whom he was deeply devoted, greatly intensified his personal search for God. He states 'I loved Mother as my dearest friend on earth. Her solacing black eyes had been my refuge in the trifling tragedies of childhood.' Later Yogananda states that in a spiritual vision God, in the aspect of Divine Mother, told him, 'It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers. See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!'
While still a student in high school, Yogananda, with three friends, attempted to run away from home and find his long sought guru amid the Himalayan mountains. But it was not until after