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Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, he was rather angry about the whole experience, but at the Vedanta Society of Southern California under Sw. Prabhavananda, he was caught.The book is a collection of his writings on Vedanta, many of them as introduction or prologues to various books.

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Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, he was rather angry about the whole experience, but at the Vedanta Society of Southern California under Sw. Prabhavananda, he was caught.The book is a collection of his writings on Vedanta, many of them as introduction or prologues to various books. (view table of contents)

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