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AY1946
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(1/15/02 3:27 am)
Reply 		the Original 1946 Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi
the Original 1946 First Edition
by Paramhansa Yogananda

unretouched by SRF

www.geocities.com/ay1946/

Subscribe to One Chapter Per Week
ay1946@yahoo.com

Starts Monday, January 21, 2002

"Chapter: 1
My Parents and Early Life

The characteristic features of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship. My own path led me to a Christlike sage whose beautiful life was chiseled for the ages. ..."


CHAPTER LISTING

PREFACE
1. My Parents and Early Life
2. My Mother's Death and the Mystic Amulet
3. The Saint With Two Bodies
4. My Interrupted Flight Toward the Himalayas
5. A "Perfume Saint" Displays His Wonders
6. The Tiger Swami
7. The Levitating Saint
8. India's Great Scientist, J.C. Bose
9. The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance
10. I Meet My Master, Sri Yukteswar
11. Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban
12. Years in my Master's Hermitage
13. The Sleepless Saint
14. An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness
15. The Cauliflower Robbery
16. Outwitting the Stars
17. Sasi and the Three Sapphires
18. A Mohammedan Wonder-Worker
19. My Master, in Calcutta, Appears in Serampore
20. We Do Not Visit Kashmir
21. We Visit Kashmir
22. The Heart of a Stone Image
23. I Receive My University Degree
24. I Become a Monk of the Swami Order
25. Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini
26. The Science of Kriya Yoga
27. Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi
28. Kashi, Reborn and Rediscovered
29. Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools
30. The Law of Miracles
31. An Interview with the Sacred Mother
32. Rama is Raised from the Dead
33. Babaji, the Yogi-Christ of Modern India
34. Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
35. The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya
36. Babaji's Interest in the West
37. I Go to America
38. Luther Burbank -- A Saint Amidst the Roses
39. Therese Neumann, the Catholic Stigmatist
40. I Return to India
41. An Idyl in South India
42. Last Days with My Guru
43. The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar
44. With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha
45. The Bengali "Joy- Permeated" Mother
46. The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
47. I Return to the West
48. At Encinitas in California

premdas
Registered User
(1/15/02 4:56 pm)
Reply 		Subscribe?
Are you sending chapters by subscription for free or charging? Please explain....One can currently read, listen or download all of or any of the 1946 edition without charge at the ananda.org site.

willy1080
Registered User
(1/16/02 2:49 am)
Reply 		Re: Subscribe?
I have subscribed for this service and it's free.

amused
Unregistered User
(1/21/02 10:28 am)
Reply 		This version of the online AY
I noted with some amusement that this version of the online AY was copied from the Ananda site. The html was downloaded verbatim from the Ananda site and posted at this site for SRF members. I know how this works, so you might have to take my word for it.

Crog
Unregistered User
(1/21/02 10:22 pm)
Reply 		Freedom
Ah the freedom of the web!

This way if SRF kills one website the AY can pop up somewhere else.

amuseddif
Unregistered User
(1/22/02 10:03 pm)
Reply 		This version of the AY
I also noted with amusement, but a different sort:

I'm guessing here, but maybe someone else can correct/help me: even tho the 1946AY is in public domain, the website that presents it is owned, and probably copyrighted, by an organization being sued by SRF for copyright vioation. Which is to say that I think (heres where I'm guessing), copying some of the site is a copyright violation. Am I right? If so, there seems some slight irony involved. . . . :b

amused
Unregistered User
(1/23/02 9:42 am)
Reply 		Yes, it probably is a copyright violation
You're right- that was actually the source of my amusement. Writing the html code for the A-nanda version of the AY probably took someone many, many hours. This srf person who, ahem, 'borrowed' the code for their own srf website, without giving any credit to Ananda, is giving new meaning to the term 'hypocrisy'.

I was also amused to learn that srf members on the srf devotee message board were recently busted by Reuters for sharing a bootleg copy of the Yogananda in Samadhi video. In this case, Reuters was apparently quite aggressive in their pursuit of those srf devotees who were violating their copyright.

The 1946 Autobiography of a Yogi is in the public domain- now and forever. Nobody ever need worry that SRF will be able to stop it's publication and distribution.

No Name Yet
Unregistered User
(2/27/02 6:11 pm)
Reply 		Copyright
I don't know about that.

The text is out of copyright.

The code is what? A bunch of paragraph codes and a-hrefs. The way you code it is the way you code it. It's not like there a thousand different ways or someone says, "I've come up with a way of coding basic text that is my own method or invention."

I could be wrong...but I think basic coding is fairly public domain if we're going to have web pages at all.

amused
Unregistered User
(3/11/02 11:08 am)
Reply 		html code
If you write html code, you know that every web page is written differently. HTML code, per se, is in the public domain, just like certain programming languages are in the public domain.

But, how someone arranges (or writes) that code is a unique creation every time. According to a friend that writes html code, the website in question did copy the html code off the Ananda website. A court would undoubtedly find the SRF member guilty of a copyright violation.

As unlikely as that is to happen, it's still a matter of some amusement to see a pattern of SRF members casually violating others' copyrights (see the post above regarding the Reuters video that SRF members were distributing).

willy1080
Registered User
(3/11/02 8:50 pm)
Reply 		One Question
Does this mean that AY 1946 , is now copyrighted by Ananda and SRF .
Let's assume some other group wants to publish it , some other yogananda group, are they allowed to do it , as it is public domain ?

just wondering :)

amused
Unregistered User
(3/12/02 9:25 am)
Reply 		1946 AY
The 1946 edition of the Autobiography of a Yogi is absolutely in the public domain. This doesn't mean that SRF won't sue you if you publish it- it hasn't stopped them before.

ay1946
Registered User
(4/18/02 6:36 am)
Reply 		Re: 1946 AY
Hi everyone.
hadn't had a chance to come back and reply. I had originally swiped the HTML code and the text. It saved me a lot of typing. I have since redone the pages and placed the footnotes on the same page as the chapter they go with. I have also changed the colors and the internal HTML code so it no longer infringes on the folks that it came from.

I would prefer to post the 1950 edition which is among the editions that I own. I am not sure on the copyright status of that version. It was published by Rider and Company and still retains the original spelling of Yogananda's title. It is odd in that the final chapter is "The Years 1937-1951" which could have been written by Yogananda but should not be in a book that was published June 1950!

If any of you can shed some light on the status of that version I would appreciate it.

an srf devotee

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