My Guru & His Disciple

My Guru and his Disciple is a sometimes humorous and always moving account of Isherwood's search for spiritual truth in the Hollywood of the 30's and 40's. It traces his relationship with the Hindu Guru, Swami Prabhavananda, who was to become his mentor and intimate friend for the next thirty years. Isherwood touchingly reveals his gradual frustration at not attaining an ascetic life and his return to pursue a more materialistic one within the realms of his novel and screen-writing. But it is above all a revelatory account of Isherwood's religious experiences and search for the mystical.