Search for the Soul in Everyday Living

by The Mother

Excellent introduction to the Mother's teachings, including chapters on "to beconscious", concentration and meditation, progress, obstacles, etc. Search ForThe Soul gives the seekers practical steps which can be taken HERE AND NOW. Inaddition, it points out the direction and the goal, clearly and in a languagethat each one can grasp. The Mother's teachings touch the soul and reveal itsnature with an immediacy and clarity which are undeniable.

Paperback

First published November 24, 1990

About the author

Mirra Alfassa, later Mirra Morisset and Mirra Richard, also known as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to Sri Aurobindo's retreat on March 29, 1914 in Pondicherry, India to collaborate on editing the Arya. Having to leave Pondicherry during World War I, she spent most of her time in Japan where she met the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Finally she returned to Pondicherry and settled there in 1920. After November 24, 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she founded his ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), with a handful of disciples living around the Master. With Sri Aurobindo's full approval she became the leader of the community, a position she held until her death. The Trust she had registered after Sri Aurobindo's death in 1950 continues to look after the institution.

Reviews

[jacqs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book took me months to read because I'd read a little and then need to digest it. Even though it's a thin book. It's hard to say exactly what she talks about, since it's a compilation of her talks while at the Ashram. I really appreciate her understanding of True reality, which is not the apparent world we live in. Occasionally she is snide when she is addressing people for whom she has contempt. But overall I found her words to be nourishing food for the soul, for us to come to know our true selves.