George Harrison: “While I was in India with Ravi [Shankar], I kept saying, ‘I want to know about the yogis of the Himalayas’…he and his brother, Raju, gave me ….Autobiography of a Yogi.  It was an Indian copy- English text, but from India.  I looked at the cover and Yogananda just zapped me with his eyes, and that was it–it was all over!

“Then I read the book- and it gave me goose bumps.  With some things you read you think, ‘Well, I’m not sure about that.’  But with Autobiography of a Yogi I was totally convinced about every word in the book; somehow his pureness and his heart just flowed out of it.

“I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people.  When people need regrooving, I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.”

George’s comments in Self-Realization video on Paramahansa Yogananda, “Glimpses of a Life Divine”