About Autobiography of a Yogi - Chapter by Chapter, with Maya and Kai
Dive into Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda in this podcast that brings all 48 chapters to life. Hosts Maya and Kai walk you through Yogananda's journey from a young mystic in Calcutta to the man who brought Kriya Yoga and meditation to the West, exploring saints, miracles, karma, samadhi, and self-realization along the way. Whether you're reading the book for the first time or revisiting it, this is your chapter-by-chapter companion: two friends unpacking the story, the teachings, and why this 1946 classic still resonates today.
The final chapter. A building rises like a great white ocean liner toward the blue brine, the Encinitas hermitage jutting out toward the Pacific. Sixteen rooms. Meditation caves carved directly into the bluff overlooking the ocean, facing the vastness of the sea and sky. While Yogananda has been across America giving everything to spread this teaching, establishing centers and initiating disciples in Kriya Yoga, the dream Sri Yukteswar planted has become real in physical form. Not temporary. Not borrowed. An actual structure built and standing and waiting. The meditation caves face the infinite, a hermitage for the soul. The series closes with Yogananda's own answer to the question that matters most: was it worth it?
16 May 2026
The Mission Comes Full Circle: Chapter 47
A Hindu swami conducting a yoga class for English students in London, standing in front of packed rooms of Westerners in their own tongue, teaching the ancient science of the East to hungry minds. Something catches in him at the sheer improbability of the moment. Nearly two centuries of colonization, empire, extraction, subjugation of an entire culture. And yet here in nineteen thirty-six, a yogi stands in England teaching to students who lean forward with genuine thirst for the knowledge. Not as conquest. Not as conversion. As simple transmission. The wheel of consciousness turns forward.
15 May 2026
The Woman Who Doesn't Eat: Chapter 46
A woman saint whose diet is thin air itself and whose body requires nothing to sustain it but consciousness. She shouldn't be alive by any conventional understanding of medicine, biology, or the laws that govern human survival and sustenance across generations. Yet here she stands, existing on nothing the body requires to exist on. One of the strangest and most difficult-to-believe chapters in the entire book, yet Yogananda vouches for every single detail without hesitation or apology. They travel to meet her and discover something that defies ordinary explanation: consciousness maintaining a body without food, without the ordinary machinery of survival.
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