Initiation into Yoga; an introduction to the spiritual life

The book brings together a selection of the writings of Sri Krishna Prem.This remarkable man first went to India in the early 1920s. In 1930 he abandoned his conventional life as the English Professor Ronald Nixon and joined his guru in the foothills of the Himalayas as an initiated Hindu monk. At his death in 1965, he was a revered saint known throughout India and with disciples spread across the globe. His disciple and successor Sri Madhava Ashish in his introduction to this book gives an outline of his life. Sri Krishna Prem ranges with direct simplicity over the symbolic and practical issues of the spiritual life. Topics include the guru, control and perfection of the mind, death and deathlessness, religion and philosophy, and ancient and symbolic knowledge.