Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a weakth of intimate detall. Never have the casual and unstudied uttierances of a great religous teacher been set down with so minute afidelity.... To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal cducation in humility, tolerace and suspense of judgement.