Bro. Anandmoy :-

Then my first spiritual tests came. I could not keep my new discovery of Yoganandaji's book to myself. I showed it to one of the older residents who was a cousin of mine. She told me that she had read the Autobiography of a Yogi and had given it to Mrs. Wright, who was an admirer of the Russian mystic Gurjieff, and she had said that Paramahansaji's book was very badly written, that the English was terrible, and that its writer, therefore, could not be of any value either. But that could not shake me. I could not judge the quality of the English in the book, of course, but I thought, so what if it is badly written. The main thing is that he knows what he is talking about.

One of the students had come from Ceylon. I showed the book to him. He...