This is probably Isherwood’s literary masterpiece, unrecognized because Westerners are uncomfortable with the Bhagavad-Gita (and for good reason – it’s an epic poem narrated by God that endorses wholesale slaughter). Judging from the portrait of Swami Prabhavananda in My Guru and His Disciple (Isherwood’s second-best book) the renunciate wrote none of the actual text, just […]