Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master Paperback – 3 Sept. 1995

A truly stunning work. I have read this three times and gifted it to many friends. It is a unique spiritual journey and experience. The essence of Sufism is love but the way in which Ms Tweedie received her insights and enlightenment were like torture to her at the time. As Rumi said "The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” In essence, the journey was a testing love affair with the unseen. Perhaps in the end the most rewarding.

The most extensive and sincere spiritual biography that I have read. Besides her spiritual attainments, Irina Tweedie was a very talented writer and there are many passages of great beauty in this book. I very highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the reality of the process of spiritual development, experienced from the perspective of the seeker.

A very detailed and personal account of an accellerated evolution of consciousness under the guidance of an unusual Sufi master - a Hindu who was himself, along with his father, guided by a Muslim Sufi master. Not for the faint-hearted, such a path. irina showed great courage, not least because she was humble enough to document and publish her smallness, pettyness and confusion through the process towards a widened consciousness.

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Wonderfull !

Amazing book, it's stayed on my mind ever since reading it. Found it very helpful and fascinating

Most amazing book, couldn't put it down (read it twice) if you are spiritually seeking and intersted in the guru/disciple relationship then this is a must...

The predicted book that showed that Spiritual Training still takes place on this Earth as in the old ways. Too important a book not too read!

This is one of the great books of my life. Especially for those of us in the west who do not grow up with traditions around spiritual masters - true masters - a book like this is GOLD. It is one that I will return to again and again...that perhaps I will read for the rest of my life. It is one of my most cherished things.Some have said the book is repetitive. I needed this. If you're on a true journey, so do you. For in it, I felt the struggle, I felt the pacing, I felt the "what's wrong with me"...even on an accelerated journey. So much inner criticism and "struggle with the struggle" left as I read these pages. The quest is great and mundane, horrible, ecstatic, exhausting and dry....it is everything, even at its best. So much was accepted, made peace with, that I had thought singular to myself.And Daughters of Fire is as a transmission. A mighty one.This book is a diamond on this planet today. Cherish it as such. not those hidden in vaults that perhaps are worth less than they are paid for, or kept artificially high...but of the kind and nature not seen in this world today because they are so beloved by God that they are hidden. I suspect it took a lot of prayers from a lot of lifetimes of old ladies in this country for such a thing to manifest. And I honor each and every one.Thank you to this incredible Russian woman, to the land of India and the lineages from the deserts of the middle east, to the blanket wearers from the earliest of days, to either the stubbornness of writer or an editor who caved and allowed the full version to in fact be bound....thank you. Thank you. ~ashley

Ich habe erst 200 Seiten gelesen. Irina ist sehr ehrlich mit ihren Gefühlen und Erlebnissen. Sie beschreibt Indien und ihren Lehrer in einer wunderschönen Sprache. Es ist ein Genuss zu lesen. Manchmal denke ich, ich bin im gleichen Zimmer wie sie. Und die Lehre des Sufism ist faszinierend.

I’m still reading this one, it’s a LONG book. I am amazed at Irene’s stamina and dedication to her teacher and trust in ‘the process’. She writes so openly of the pain and the joy of the road to enlightenment. I’m looking forward to reading about her further achievements. 💛👍🏾💛

It is an extremely dramatic, powerful and empowering book.Its about Russian-born Irina Tweedie the author who is being trained on the Path of Tyaga by her guru Bhai Sahib (elder brother), aka Radha Mohan Lal, a Hindu Sufi Sheikh from the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadiddiya Sufi Order.Its has beautiful 829 pages to delve into...Must buy for anyone wanting to have serious understanding on aguru-disciple relationship .I have been truly mesmerized by the clarity of her chronicle.

I've read the critique of others on this page and must say that this book is not for somebody who wants to read about Sufism and feel all warm and fuzzy. This is the experience of a serious student who, through the "button pushing" of her teacher, let go of her ego and found her true self, full of love and wisdom. True spiritual work is not easy.Contrary to one of the critiques, Sufism is not just for people following Islam. In fact, in many Islamic countries, Sufism has had to go underground. Sufism can be followed by anybody of any faith, much as you don't have to be Hindu to practice Yoga.