📚 Gurus

The Indian teacher figure and the industry around it: lineages, ashrams and the exposure shelf.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject gurus in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Autobiography of a Yogi	Yogananda Paramahansa	1946	183
	Ramana Maharshi and the path of self-knowledge	Arthur Osborne	1954	8
	Sai Baba	Phyllis Krystal	1985	7
	The master as I saw him	Margaret Elizabeth Noble	1910	6
	Ramana Maharshi and the path of self-knowledge	Osborne, Arthur	1954	6
	The knee of listening	Adi Da Samraj	1972	6
	A Search in Secret India	Paul Brunton	1970	5
	Karma Cola	Gita Mehta	1979	5
	Madame Blavatsky's Baboon	Peter Washington	1993	5
	Religious Authority in South Asia	István Keul	2022	5
	The love-ananda gita	Adi Da Samraj	1989	4
	World-famous modern gurus and guru-cults	Nemisharan Mital	1990	4
	The Graceful Guru	Karen Pechilis	2004	4
	Religious Pluralism in Punjab	Joginder Singh	2017	4
	The initiate in the new world	Cyril Scott	1927	3
	The initiate in the dark cycle	Cyril Scott	1932	3
	Godmen of India	Peter Ludwig Brent	1972	3
	Sai Baba, the Holy man... and the psychiatrist	Samuel H. Sandweiss	1975	3
	Prabhupada	Satsvarupa Das Goswami	1983	3
	Holy madness	Georg Feuerstein	1991	3
	Door-ways to light	Krishnananda	2004	3
	Homegrown gurus	Ann Gleig	2013	3
	The perfect master	C. B. Purdom	1937	2
	Sarmad, Jewish saint of India	Isaac A. Ezekiel	1966	2
	How to choose a guru	Rick M. Chapman	1973	2
	Satya Sai Baba, godman of India today	T. B. Singh	1976	2
	Guru Ramdas	Gobind Singh Mansukhani	1979	2
	The perfect relationship	Swami Muktananda	1980	2
	The sound of running water	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1980	2
	Zorba the Buddha	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1982	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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