What is a guru? What can one teach us? Although many Westerners are becoming interested in Eastern religions the guru still remains a figure shrouded in mystery. Now the first Western woman to take vows with the holy order of Sanyas & become a swami shares her encounters with 20 great gurus. Much of their power & wisdom has never been revealed to the West before. As Dr. Arthur Hastings of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology explains, "These stories...expand our understanding of gurus - what kind of persons they are, how we can relate to them, & what we can learn."