The 'Autobiography of a Yogi' is dedicated to an American plant breeder

Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, one of the most widely read spiritual memoirs of the 20th century, is dedicated 'To the memory of Luther Burbank, an American saint' — the celebrated California horticulturist who bred hundreds of new plant varieties and whom Yogananda counted as a personal friend.

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