How the French Benedictine monk, Henri Le Saux, became Swami Abhishiktananda in India: This-book offers a unique and comprehensive biography of Henri Le Saux (1910-1973), an extraordinary Catholic monk who answered an inner call to India where he spent the rest of his life as a renunciate, becoming known as Swami Abhishiktananda; includes a compilation of Abhishiktananda's spiritual aphorisms as well as a full bibliography of his writings; contains 21 black-and-white illustrations from his life and times.