Philip Goldberg argues that there were gaps in Yogananda's personal story because the autobiography written by Yogananda left out most of his life after age 27.

“And realized that less than 10% of that book is about his life after the age of 27 when he came to America. And that and there are were passages that read like and then four years passed in Boston. And I thought, well, no, you can't get away with that.”