In the Silence of the Unfathomable

by Edward Salim Michael, Tania Doney (Translator)

“ It is very difficult for a beginner to understand that the goal to which he aspires is closer to him than the blood in his own veins; it is, in truth, within him and in the present. It is enough for him to consecrate himself with extreme sincerity to his spiritual practices to join with the Sublime within him; nevertheless, even if he has succeeded in reaching It, that does not mean that he will subsequently be able to remain united with It . ”

In this last work, Edward Salim Michael exhorts us with infinite compassion to consecrate ourselves to the only thing that counts and that can give meaning to a spiritual approach that is beyond all dogma.

This approach is one of knowing and experiencing the value and importance of a conscious return to oneself in the present.
Holding this state of return to oneself continually is truly the key to Awakening.
This return to oneself is, at the same time, a return to the Absolute within oneself ; it is the greatest of all mysteries, to be understood and grasped through experience.

To do so, aspirants must identify the different levels of consciousness they must learn to nurture within them. They must see within themselves the obstacles to liberation with which the path is strewn, particularly inner passivity, and understand how to overcome tenacious thoughts.

Every word of this book is an encouragement and an incitation to make the necessary efforts to awaken.
It guides us along the path that Edward Salim Michael followed himself to find and permanently remain in the Silence of the Unfathomable, the source of all real and lasting felicity.


Edward Salim Michael had the highest spiritual experiences while remaining in secular life, in the midst of the tumult of the modern world. Here, he presents, with simplicity, strength, and clarity, the spiritual truths he experienced and which are the fruit of more than fifty years of intensive spiritual practice.
His teaching is close to Buddhism, but, as all his writings have come out of direct spiritual experiences, he readily uses quotations from The Bhagavad Gita, the Gospels, or from Christian or Sufi mystics to illustrate his words.
He is the author of The Law of Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner Vigilance , now a seminal classic.

Paperback

Published September 12, 2021

About the author

His biography and spiritual journey has been writtent in French by his wife and translated into English : The Price of a Remarkable Destiny published on Amazon

Of Anglo-Indian descent, Edward Salim Michael spent his entire childhood in various countries of the Middle East. He never had the opportunity of attending school and did not have a mother tongue.

Parental peregrinations brought him back to London just before the storm of the Second World War.It was there that providentially he made the acquaintance of an Anglican Chaplain who taught him the basics of reading and writing. The Chaplain’s wife taught him music which he assimilated at a stunning speed. His first orchestral piece, composed after only two years of study, won a competition and was played at the Albert Hall in London.

After the War, from which he emerged terribly bruised, he pursued his musical studies with passion and in addition to composition, became a solo violinist. He gave his first concerts after only three years of study. In 1949, another providential meeting awoke within him a mysterious silent memory.

It was in London at the house of Mr. Adie who was part of the Gurdjieff groups in England, that he saw a statue of Buddha for the first time in his life. He remained transfixed in front of it and, when he returned to his home, he immediately put himself into the same posture as the statue with no difficulties, closed his eyes and began to concentrate on an inner sound that he heard within his ears and head, without even knowing that what he was doing was called meditation.

In parallel to his career as a musician, he then embarked on his spiritual practice with all the passion and exactingness of a great artist. Through the exceptional concentration skills he had developed as a composer, he swiftly began to have profound spiritual experiences.

As his parents had never practiced any religion, he had been sheltered from any religious conditioning. His lack of school education and book knowledge left him with a slate clean from prejudice and projections. He would follow the path of direct experience, beyond all dogmas.

At the beginning of the 1950s, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, the greatest teacher of musical analysis of the Twentieth Century. He appreciated her extreme rigor and felt profound gratitude towards her.

He lived from hand to mouth under the most precarious conditions, assiduously pursuing his practice of meditation added to by a constant combat to remain present to himself amid all the circumstances of his active life.

After five years of incessant effort, at the age of thirty-three, he had an extremely powerful experience of awakening to what one may call the Buddha Nature as well as the Infinite in oneself.