A Search in Secret India by Paul Brunton, 1st ed.

A Search in Secret India, Paul Brunton. Foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. First edition, 1935. Foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. The blue cloth cover has minor wear, with faded gilt lettering on the spine. Clean pages with no ink markings.

Brunton writes about his visits with a few of the yogis and saints Paramahansa Yogananda met in India: Ramana Maharsi (Maharishee in Brunton’s book), Yogi Ramiah, Master Mahasaya, and The Perfume Saint (Vishuddhananda). It includes photos of these yogis, Sarada Devi (Ramakrishna’s wife), and others. Sir Francis Younghusband wrote the foreword to Brunton’s book and also an article about his experience of cosmic joy in The Atlantic Monthly, a passage of which is quoted in Autobiography of a Yogi. The same year this book was published, Younghusband introduced Paramahansa Yogananda before a large audience in London’s Caxton Hall, where the guru gave a speech.

Paul Brunton also contributed four articles to Sri Yogananda’s Inner Culture magazine in the late 1930s, and his book was reviewed in the February 1938 issue.