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.
Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at MGM, intellectual sparring sessions with Berthold.
It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood\'s own life.
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