Short description
Sensitive photography and intriguing narrative will draw readers into the strange and remarkable world of the sadhus of India--Hindu holy men who honor the gods with ancient rituals and ascetic practices. Features 100 color photographs and 50 black-and-white illustrations. (Inner Traditions)
Review
At first, the reader might feel a sense of superiority, the kind of spiritual pride that C.S. Lewis describes where you are amazed that the whole world does not do things the way they do it in your church. Relentlessly, the calm prose, with its descriptions of the different Hindu sects and the intentions of the practitioners, wears away at your prejudice. You notice the twinkle in the eye of one elderly man, the peace on the face of another. The word holy takes on new meanings. An amazing book in every sense of the word.