Born in England in 1921, of Anglo-Indian descent, Edward Salim Michael spent his whole youth in the Middle East from the prewar period. Parental peregrinations brought him back to London just before the storm of the Second World War from which he emerged terribly bruised.
He then threw himself with the exigency of a great artist in a symphonic music composer's career. Attracted by French music, he decided to come to study in Paris where he went through the pangs of creation in excessively difficult conditions for years. It was in 1949 when, for the first time, he saw a Buddha statue. From that decisive moment onwards, in parallel with his musician’s career, he engaged himself with passion in a sustained meditation practice which, because of the exceptional capacities of concentration that he had developed as a composer, allowed him rapidly to have profound spiritual experiences.
After four years of unrelenting efforts in the midst of the agitation and tribulations of the modern world, he had, at the age of thirty-three, an extremely powerful experience of awakening to what one can call his Buddha-Nature as well as the Infinite in oneself.
Feeling a deep urge to dedicate himself totally to his inner life, he decided to renounce music (which he signed under his first name Edward) to answer the irresistible call of India, country of his maternal grandmother. There he spent almost seven years, during which he never stopped deepening his spiritual practice.
After coming back to France, he started transmitting with compassion the fruits of his inner experiences and mystical understandings to his pupils, for whom he has written several books, the last one printed in May 2008.
