A DISCIPLE'S JOURNAL is Sister Gargi's personal account of her spiritual training over two decades by Swami Ashokananda, the illustrious monk of the Ramakrishna Order who spent most of his life developing the Vedanta movement in California. It tells the exciting story of Sister Gargi's transformation from a young author in San Francisco, then Marie Louise Burke, into a leading literary figure and honored monastic in the Hindu tradition of Vedanta. The drama that unfolds between teacher and disciple in this remarkable spiritual memoir is more poignant than fiction. Sister Gargi is to be thanked for another important entry in the archives of world spirituality. -HUSTON SMITH