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Here is a unique, firsthand report on the family life of India's orthodox Brahmins. Accepted as a member of such a family, Lizelle Reymond found its existence pervaded by the same subtle discipline that has preserved India's religious heritage through thousands of years. "The home-life of my Brahmin family formed a unity from which no part could be subtracted," she writes. "For a time, I had my own place in that life. Only one thing could have driven me from the family circle, disobedience to my own personal rule; in other words, had I been dishonest with myself for good or ill." In these pages, she describes the day-by-day course of the Brahmins' life, telling how they taught her a form of Yoga that touches every aspect of ordinary human experience. And long before her stay in India was over, she knew that, whatever upheavals the future might bring, the hidden life of the Brahmins would go on as it always had - unassailable, unshaken, unchanged.