Sushil Choudhury was a Brahmin priest in a small village in the interior of East India when he met Swami Satyananda, an American sadhu who lived in the cremation grounds. He was thirteen years old when he joined the barefoot Sadhu in spiritual pilgrimages all around India, throughout the Himalayas, and ultimately around the world, following this Sahib Sadhu through some of the most fascinating spiritual adventures recorded in recent times. Swami Satyananda performed the disciplines of a wandering ascetic for over twenty years in India, chanting naked in the snow, meditating in hot springs,...