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Paramahansa Yogananda

1893–1952 · India / United States · Contemporary (profiles)

Yogananda introduced yoga meditation to many Americans and wrote Autobiography of a Yogi as well as devotional poems collected in Songs of the Soul.

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What are Paramahansa Yogananda’s best-known books?

Songs of the Soul (1923), Autobiography of a Yogi (1946).

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