Ishwar Sharan
"Ishwar Sharan is the pen name of a Canadian Sannyaasi who had earlier belonged to a family of middle class professionals who were practicing Christians.
He has travelled extensively in Canada, Europe, North Africa and West Asia.
He had meditated in Franciscan hermitage at Assisi and worked on a Communist kibbutz (communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm).
His experience of these institutions helped turn him against all monolithic creeds and he came to India in 1967 in search of spiritual direction, choosing India because it had the only great Pagan civilization to have successfully survived centuries of repressive Islamic and Christian imperialism.
He is a great lover of Hindu culture and religion and holds the view that although the Sannyaasi stands outside of society he does not stand above Hinduism that is Sanaatan Dharm." Source: ISBN 81-85990-21-2 [1995]