Spiritual mentor Laura Torres includes The Guru’s Touch among five books she recommends for beginning the spiritual journey. (Comments on The Guru’s Touch begin at 6:00 minutes.)

BABA, SURESH, AND THE rest of the innermost circle would fly to New Delhi, where the guru would meet local devotees to lay the cornerstone of a new Raja Yoga ashram. Everyone else was setting off by train a day earlier, and would arrive in Delhi in time for the ceremony. From Delhi, we would continue to the holy city of Haridwar, about a hundred and fifty miles north of the Indian capital. From the moment we found our first-class cabin on the train, Arjuna Weinberg complained about how jet-lagged he was and how little sleep he had gotten since...