# My Guru and His Disciple

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- Authors: [Christopher Isherwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-isherwood)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-123-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2013-05-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. Late-night drinking sessions, free love, and the glamour of writing for the Hollywood studios alternate with meditation, abstinence and the study of religious texts in a compelling tug of war between worldliness and holiness.