In Search of the Unitive Vision: Letters of Sri Madhava Ashish to an American Businessman, 1978-1997 - Softcover

Seymour B. Ginsburg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892138050 ISBN 13: 9781892138057

Publisher: New Paradigm Books, 2001

Synopsis

If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching. Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru's death) and include a lengthy correspondence and annual visits to Sri Madhava Ashish's Mirtola ashram, near Almora, in India's HImalayan foothills. Along the way, the entrepeneur/author would not only be caught up in the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, but also in the search for the elusive unitive vision--the world viewed from the perspective of the greater Self and not the personality. In this remarkable spiritual document, the reader shares the search, increasingly catching glimpses of the unitive vision as the book draws toward a close that is also an opening out, into the vaster dimensions of the human mind.

About this title

About the Author:

Sri Madhava Ashish was born Alexander Phipps, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1920, graduating from Chelsea’s College of Aeronautical Engineering. He served in India during World War Two as a Spitfire engine repairman, meeting the guru Krishna Prem during a visit to Almora in 1946. He immediately adopted Sri Krishna Prem as his teacher, and, at the death of the guru in 1965, took over the direction of the Mirtola ashram. At his death in 1997, he had written extensively on spiritual subjects and on farming reforms in northern India.

Seymour B. Ginsburg was born in Chicago, IL, in 1934, and graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in accountancy and law. A founder of the predecessor business and the first president of Toys R Us, he was for many years involved in commodities trading. He met Sri Madhava Ashish while on a private visit to India in 1978. He was a co-founder of the Gurdjieff Institute of Florida, and currently divides his time between South Florida and Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Paradigm Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1892138050
• ISBN 13: 9781892138057
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304