What You Don’t Know of Paramahansa Yogananda! Philip Goldberg

Embark on a fascinating journey into the untold stories of Paramahansa Yogananda, unraveling the enigmatic facets of this spiritual luminary with author Phil Goldberg, renowned for his insightful biography on Yogananda. In this compelling video, Goldberg delves into the lesser-known aspects of Yogananda's life, offering a captivating perspective on the man behind the spiritual teachings. From Yogananda's early years to the profound impact he made on the West, Goldberg paints a vivid portrait that goes beyond the widely known narratives. Gain exclusive insights into the remarkable life of Paramahansa Yogananda and explore the depth of his humanity as shared by the expert biographer, Phil Goldberg, shedding light on the intricate layers of this spiritual giant.
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Timestamps:
01:35 Why write a biography?
06:01 How did you gather sources of information?
07:57 What did his autobiography do for you?
12:04 Is Yogananda's book still relevant?
13:45 Tiger Swami
15:40 Magical Powers
22:14 Why did Yogananda write about Yogi's with Special Powers?
31:17 Is Fear Driven by the Illusion?
45:00 What people don't know about Yogananda
01:00:43 Sri Guru Babajii
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[@MaxMut.]

In the search of illumination Lots of books by great masters passed through my hands .. But the Yogananda ones Stayed in my Heart “

[@billyryland]

The "Autobiography of a Yogi" is an incomparable introductory to a world that lies beyond and behind the circumscription of mortal identification. The Autobiography of a Yogi, as all his writings, I have found to have a life of their own. In that whenever I am in need of a solution to a personal concern no matter what it is a random selection always seem to relate to the concerns of the moment. A disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda in this lifetime, for almost fifty years, and the gratitude keeps ever flowing unabated. His representation of Both Relative and ABSOLUTE TRUTH, are comprehensive. I read his writings every day with every meditation session of two a day, and practice his KRIYA YOGA meditation techniques during each session, with a collective average of five to seven hours each day morning and night.

[@trudihsu]

The autobiography of a yogi got me into Indian mystics which fast track me on my path to God.

[@jeffdocherty]

In the way Yogananda came to the States it needs to be remembered he v much followed and echoed the template laid down by the great Swami Vivekananda, who came before Yogananda. Y. even copied his arrival by also delivering a speech, Vivekananda to the Parliament of Religions in Chicago 1893, Yogananda to the International Congress of Relgions in Boston 1920. Curiously both of these Saints came from Calcutta and their own Gurus knew and met. In fact Sri Yukteswar was on the verge of giving his assets to the Ramakrishna Mission, they were so closely related. It’s a v striking synchronicity of Sages & Saints manifesting at the same time and place and worthy of closer consideration.

[@angelo8424]

I first read Autobiography of a Yogi, around 1990, after seeing an ad in a newspaper- Best $4. I ever spent.

[@jayaramjangal8055]

Thank you for bringing and sharing Autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda, many things that are not known to many. Gratitude to this podcaste 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐💐

[@yoursuperiorself]

So nice of you

[@SelfAcceptanceandLove]

All this is in the movie ‘Awake’ produced under the guidance of Self Realization Fellowship, the organization Yogananda himself created for spreading the ancient teachings of Kriya Yoga. And the rest of important info about Yogananda can be found in his ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ and ‘Mejda’, a book written by Yogananda’s younger brother. Yogananda’s teachings are in the lessons he wrote which are available to everyone who wants to subscribe to them. Also, there’s a lot of other books that Self-Realization Fellowship publishes that are written by Yogananda himself.

[@charpannell3461]

The movie Awake was not produced by Self Realization Fellowship ◇

[@1rsalc]

The movie 'Awake' was not produced by Self Realization Fellowship. It was produced by CounterPoint Films.

[@SelfAcceptanceandLove]

Yes, as far as I remember SRF owns the rights. You can see it when the movie ends. It was produced under the guidance of the then president of SRF.

[@SelfAcceptanceandLove]

And m thinking I should edit my comment because you are right about CounterPoint Films being the producer.

[@johnbanach3875]

Mr. Goldberg is incorrect to say that PY was the first Indian teacher to stay permanently in America. Swami Paramananda (Boston Vedanta/Ananda Ashrama CA) came to the USA before PY (1906) and stayed until his death in 1940. Also, there were Swami Trigunatita (1902) and Swami Prakashananda (1906)--Vedanta Society of Northern California--although they didn't live as long. (PY was known as "Swami Yogananda" until the title "Paramahansa" was bestowed on him in 1935 by Swami Sri Yukteswar.) As Mr. Goldberg relates, PY did work tirelessly in America for 32 years, as did Swami Paramananda for 34 years, also crisscrossing the country by train, lecturing in rented halls, establishing centers, and writing articles and books. It's been said that they knew one another in CA and, of course, respected one another. Swami Prabhavananda, founder of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, and PY were fellow students at Calcutta University, but he came to America a few years after PY (1923). He left his body in 1976 at 82 so he outlived PY by 23 years.

[@johnwhitesel7828]

Great presentation. I learned a lot. Thank you

[@yoursuperiorself]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MarmitaVeganaPT]

Autobiography of a Yogi introduced me to my SatGuru, Paramahamsa Vishwananda ❤❤❤❤

[@magiccarpetmusic2449]

He was a fine man and a major, profound spiritual teacher.

[@shiva1742]

I was first made aware of this book by yogi swami in 1972 who demonstrated a bona fide siddhi that was beyond Any doubt whatsoever. Reading that book was a life-changing experience. Before that, I had no inkling of the metaphysical world, but I think that the desire was there, and I was just ready for it.

[@stepheng.5623]

Thanks, I really appreciate you putting out this video! As a student of this path, I find this very respectful and important for the general public to hear another authors perspective of our Guru. 🙏☮️

[@davelescalona2235]

Wow, what a magnificent interview. I have learned so many details of our great guru 🙏. Thank you so much!

[@yoursuperiorself]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joysblues]

AY was ORIGINALLY entitled ‘Yogi Christs of India’. It was (obviously) changed because the public absolutely wasn’t ready for a title like that.

[@lindabea]

This podcast found me this morning. Thank you!

[@brucewooley8694]

Trey, you’re a good listener and have the big “Why” question covered in depth brilliantly by Phil Goldberg. I’m inspired to borrow Phil’s book from a friend and give it the read it deserves. btw - I will return the book Phil - good karma shall follow.

[@Lovedlight]

Very nice Interview thank you 🙏 the guest and host both have spoken so simply and clearly and the host is not disturbing the guest with excess interruptions such a relief to see an interview where the host is letting the guest talk 🙏very nice information

[@robertmitchell8630]

I first read partially Autobiography of a Yogi After a few chapters couldnt make sense out of it Two decades later re read it finally illuminated my mind Aesome book 📚

[@camilladrummond1960]

Re last section; There have always been Spiritual seekers & adepts in both USA & UK..certainly many in 1920s. Mary Baker Eddy had a Spiritual Awakening & established her very Spiritual Christian Science teachings in Boston since 1890s. ( on reading Autobiography of a Yogi I almost 'jumped ship' & left the 2nd meditation course I was on in Rishikesh with Maharishi but as Maharishi subsequently said I became 'caught' on experiencng ever deeper levels of unconditional Divine Love in meditation there)

[@alanstewart7802]

I first read the Autobiography in the 70's and it affected me deeply. However, I still find certain chapters challenging, particularly the one where Sri Yukteswar is resurrected. I've read Mr Goldberg's biography and he says many people think the same way and I'm not alone in my scepticism.

[@CVsnaredevil]

Thanks for the interview. Good stuff 😎

[@yogablessings]

This man is brilliant. Excellent interview

[@Tascountrygirl]

I am an Australian woman who met up with a couple of young male spiritual seekers my age in a regional Tasmanian city way back in about 1965. One of them lent me his copy of 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at that time which I absolutely loved and devoured. At about that time I was very open to Hindu spirituality and began my trek by air and train with the friend who owned the Yogananda autobiography to Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria as we had heard of Transcendental Meditation taught by Hindu teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who had begun to train teachers for Australia after living in the US for a number of years. I travelled up to Sydney where I later learnt TM and joined a community there in Woollahra. I went on to train in another advanced course of TM in the Blue Mountains in the state of NSW

[@Mythiss]

amazing story-thank you for sharing. May I ask which states of consciousness this led you to?

[@camilladrummond1960]

Phil Goldberg learned T.M & spent years on T.M courses & around Maharishi, not sure why he makes no mention of it or Maharishi!

[@garylake1497]

Yeah, and ?

[@markhogan77]

Exactly

[@DianeManganese-co4st]

I took the miracles recorded in the Autobiography as 100% real, I never had any reason to question them. Since I was loving him,, I took him as direct truth and still do. I considered the autobiography one of the greatest blessings in my life. Praying for them and I'm glad the temple in Pacific Palisades was spared during the wildfires.

[@RonaldShearer-nl2hl]

Yogananda brought the highest form of meditation with Kiya yoga if you read the autobiography of a Yogi, you would realize that you could have 10 million lifetimes of perfect karma. Perfect health. Perfect meditation and still not get the god without krya yoga. It's the highest form of yoga meditation

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

Did you get the god with krya yoga?

[@rajdevnundkumar561]

What utter nonsense . There are great saints of India who did not practise Kriya Yoga and attained the highest level of God realization. How do you account for Ramana Maharishi, Swami Sivananda, Pappa Ramdas, Neem Karoli Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Shri Aurobindo, Shirdi Sai Baba and thousands of other great saints who didn't practise Kriya Yoga attaining the loftiest peaks of spirituality? Do not suffer from Kriya egoism simply because you practise Kriya Yoga. Kriya yoga is only one of the many spiritual technologies available to sincere aspirants to attain Self Realization. Think before you write.

[@johnbanach3875]

On the other hand, I know SRF members who have been practicing Kriya Yoga for fifty years, and they're still a mess psychologically with no discernible spiritual evolution. The hype in AY seems a little over-the-top. "10 million lifetimes" is silly talk. Also, perfect meditation by definition would give you samadhi. Divine grace is the key always--not any type of meditation or breathing technique.

[@johnbanach3875]

@@rajdevnundkumar561 True. Unfortunately, cult superiority became an integral part of the SRF message after the Master's passing.

[@rog3129]

Apparently in the South in the US, a lot of negativity toward him for his dark skin. If they only knew what they lost there.

[@madfoxcityemnau6414]

Indeed among other losses❤😊

[@MrHappynow44]

Happy, Peaceful, Loveful Now

[@konstantinosstavropoulos3605]

good

[@gauriblomeyer1835]

There is first Sri Aurobindo who transformed our present views of the future. Is there anything like his „ Life Divine“ ? The truth Sri Aurobindo provides us is that we the homo sapiens species once evolved from the homo erectus species and that the period of the homo sapiens has come to its end also and will be replaced by a similar far higher species with a supramental consciousness. Sri Aurobindo spent all his life to let this supramental species come to earth. He worked in his Ashram in Puducherry with a personality called the Mother, our Mahashakti. She founded Auroville with the tempel Matrimandir .

[@gorantomanovic8567]

Nice, tnx... :-)

[@dovygoodguy1296]

What kind of connection existed between Yogananda and Swami Vivekananda or even Hazrat Inayat Khan??

[@tylerpearson7179]

Great talk, where the interviewer lets the guest speak.

[@Lehmann108]

Hey Phil! (MIU '74 to '78) Be well my friend.

[@wilfredoadames8201]

Yogananda's asignment to the US, from wayback and behind, was karmic. It was part of his karma from past lives, still at a very high level of development but karma nevertheless. It was part of his development as a Guru, which he already had been as attested by his disciples in the US reincarnated from discipleship with him in past lives. Although they continued their development with him, he also continued his development as Guru with them.

[@WakingEssence]

How presumptuously knowing we are! What do YOU know of what is and is not 'karmic' - but at least it provides you with a metaphysically titillating passtime.

[@wilfredoadames8201]

@WakingEssence You might be right and probably are. However you are not going to be telling me lots and lots of information, mentioning references for me to explore, telling me, rigjtly so, that all religions lead to God, something that I "did not know" but still neither now know but accept because you tell me, but I cannot put two and two together and reach a conclusion. I do not "know" but I can surely speculate and conclude. There is very commonly observed that people who identify totally with something like this they have found, to believe that, really because now they are into it, the whole thing is excluded from things that affect us. I am a formal student of Yogananda and as such I come across expressions and manifestations that pretend that Yoganada knew everything to be known, shared it and thats the end. You hear that ha "was alreafy one with God" that he was above the law of karma and other things not in so many words . but if you read and conclude by yourself, you reach different conclusions, and express it. The explanation as it has reached me about karma, makes so many things fall in place, that I try to speculate and wonder about it constantly every where. Babajii told Yukteswar, check it if you can, 'I am going to send you a disciple" Guess who? That sounds pretty karmic to me.

[@wilfredoadames8201]

@WakingEssence I'm trying to find my response to your comment. It was deleted. Let's let it be.

[@nickibozetti7970]

I do Kriya Yoga of Yogananda for 40 years. And hours of Meditation every day. I was and am Not interested in miracles and all that stuff. But a miracles Happens. I have changed.

[@jan-martinulvag1962]

13 min in and nothing is said that interest me. Good job

[@HomeAtLast501]

Ads every few minutes, mate --- I'm out at 33 minutes, I'm fed up with it.

[@camilladrummond1960]

No adverts while watching this on my iPhone. I pay utube about £12 pm to get it advert free

[@HomeAtLast501]

@@camilladrummond1960 I refuse to give KZbin any money because of its censorship policies, which impacted me in a major way on 3 different channels I had. It's ruined the public dialogue, and ruined the original KZbin experience.

[@julieross652]

Just press SKIP

[@HomeAtLast501]

@@julieross652 I listen to things like this while I'm doing other things, like cooking, cleaning, etc. So when there is an ad every 3-5 minutes, I have to stop what I'm doing, walk over to the computer, hit skip. It breaks up the work I'm doing, and interferes with the listening experience in terms of following the narrative thread. It's not worth it.

[@miller5170]

I pay for KZbin premium bc of ads ❤

[@roberto6536]

'They' who?

[@WakingEssence]

Sorry - our friend Philip, for all his fascination with PY, is not a very impressive commentator, or does he look as if he's in particularly compelling shape. Nor does he share with us much of 'What we don't know of Parmhans Yoganands.' Ho-hum.

[@chevyyyyyyy]

To adapt about Yogananda book the exclamation that Gen Patton said about Rommel’s book in the movie: “Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!” What a great phrase that was fictional in Patton’s real life.

[@antoniospanayiotou8619]

The Holy Mother also came to the UK.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3irlmufmNWrjc0si=Lv7D_T3y-_YwEqBS

[@johnbanach3875]

The name "Holy Mother" generally and respectfully refers to Sri Sarada Devi, the wife of Sri Ramakrishna, who never left India.

[@heddygreen-o1h]

The original autobiography was the truth.they edited the book ,and ruined it .

[@heddygreen-o1h]

Sorry that's just an opinion, not intended to hurt anyone.

[@johnbanach3875]

A criticism circulated by Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), an early VP of SRF, who was expelled from the organization in 1962. All edits in later editions were 100% in line with PY's wishes.

[@heddygreen-o1h]

@@johnbanach3875 good! I'll remember that! Lol!

[@johnbanach3875]

@heddygreen-o1h It was heavily edited before publication by Tara Mata (Laurie Pratt), but the edits earned the full approval of PY, who said she was in tune with him spiritually and mentally. His mastery of English was not at the level of someone like Swami Vivekananda. After her passing in 1971, Mrinalini Mata (Merna Brown), a selfless and very devoted longtime disciple, became the chief editor of his writings. She also was in deep attunement with PY. His writings, which were usually given in the form of dictation, have never been ruined by any of the editors, only made suitable for book form.

[@heddygreen-o1h]

@johnbanach3875 daya mata? I was guided by her after her death. She told me not to be so sensitive, for one thing. 😂 And she has been with me many times! I add her to my list before I meditate on GOD.

[@tutunchatterjee108]

No Paramahansa Yogananda never became a citizen of US.

[@RigoMuniz]

Yes he did. Yogananda became a U.S naturalized Citizen in 1949.

[@tutunchatterjee108]

@RigoMuniz there's a vioce record of his where he says he never applied for US citizenship. And when he left his body the last sentence of his was : "Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God. I am hallowed; my body touched that sod! "

[@MarcoAntonio-f4i]

The notion that biblical religion is incompatible with science relies on a peculiarly modern (anti-biblical and anti-Platonic, Machiavellian/Cartesian, etc.) conception of science. To try to reconcile the Veda (etc.) with modern science is to do a disservice to both.

[@jimosborne2]

LOL: if you have to explain the difference between a biography and an autobiography- after the subject is deceased- well, says something about the audience or the host.

[@cybertrekker4274]

As typical with humans, the video interview was too much about other things than the subject title "What You Don't Know of Paramahansa Yogananda", which is in many ways disappointing but highly predictable as a human tendency and result of the human consciousness or human mentality. This other stuff, of which mostly comprised the interview or talk, one can get from elsewhere.

[@markstancliff9514]

And while you all sit around meditating on your navels, over half the world goes to bed hungry every night...😓

[@lynneleeluckdowsing6654]

Meditation is unethical until all is well with all of humanity? Why have you come with poison?

[@johnbanach3875]

Yogananda never taught "meditating on your navel." Swami Vivekananda and Yogananda both advocated "Karma Yoga," which is selfless service to God in the form of all human beings. Are you familiar with the work of the Ramakrishna Mission and YSS charitable work in India? Look into it before passing judgement.

[@StopProcreating]

It's not true that he chose to leave his body because his work was done on March 9, 1952. He had diabetes and was sick because of it. He died of heart related complications because of diabetes. And he died shortly after eating a lot of sugar and carbohydrates. Also, not true that he didn't decay 3 weeks after death. Firstly, he was embalmed. Secondly, his nose was decaying.

[@burlesonpowerwashing4574]

You are incorrect.

[@AlanBeck-sg4yq]

The great Master, Paramahansa Yogananda, left his temporary body form consciously via Mahasamadhi as is evidenced in a great many ways.

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

All we know is that he got sick and died, period. To know any more is beyond us. This is what has always turned me off about Yogananda and the SRF: the emphasis on miraculous powers. True masters like Ramakrishna, Shirdi Baba, Ramana, Upasani Maharaj, and Meher Baba didn’t give a damn for siddhis. They directed you solely to God/Self.

[@camilladrummond1960]

😮

[@julieross652]

@@burlesonpowerwashing4574where is your evidence regarding your statement surely his life teachings and the love he left behind is more important than his death and the details around it 🙏

[@yogasamrat]

Yogananda is an avatar of the age!

[@yogasamrat]

You missed the point dear friend about tiger swami. He had battled tigers but he was fallible and he crossed beyond his material aspiration to conquer hs mind. he finally realized Truth.

[@yogasamrat]

Well i can say Mr. Philip Goldberg that my Guru had these powers which i witnessed.Where is any question for scepticism? Perhaps you have never met any real saints?