"In some ways, Isherwood's most ambitious book. There is
a sense of wholeness and of the joy of spiritual quest. We can
believe such a believer." -- Richard Dyer, The Boston
Globe
"My Guru and His Disciple is a classic of spiritual
literature." -- Kirkus Reviews
"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest
portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami
Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some
thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and
sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and
holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night
drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo,
scriptwriting conferences at M-G-M, intellectual sparring
sessions with Berthold Brecht alternated with nights of
fasting at the Vedanta Center, a six-month period of celibacy
and sobriety, and the pious drudgery of translating (in
collaboration with the Swami) the Bhagavad-Gita. Seldom has a
single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both
sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline; out of
the passionate dialectic between these drives, My Guru and His
Disciple has been written. What emerges is a record of a
religious adventure that would have delighted Kierkegaard, for
Isherwood rejects conventional piety-all the humdrum apparatus
of worship-in favor of a direct, even jaunty appreciation of
how preposterous, certainly precarious, spirituality can be
today... In these pages Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of
devotion for the modern reader." -- Edmund White, The
New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an
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