Initiation into Yoga brings together a selection of the writings of Sri Krishna Prem.

This remarkable man first went to India in the early 1920s. In 1930 he abandoned his conventional life as the English Professor Ronald Nixon and joined his guru in the foothills of the Himalayas as an initiated Hindu monk. At his death in 1965, he was a revered saint known throughout India and with disciples spread across the globe. His disciple and successor Sri Madhava Ashish in his introduction to this book gives an outline of his life.

Sri Krishna Prem ranges with direct simplicity over the symbolic and practical issues of the spiritual life. The first chapter, Initiation into Yoga, makes available a booklet widely acclaimed and reprinted in India. Later chapters explore the tensions of the inner world and their projection in the real world.

The Forgotten Land discusses death and 'the deathlessness of life', and the final chapter reflects interestingly on the counterpointing, as seen by a Westerner-turned-Hindu, of philosophy and religion.