Lovely. Entrancing. The mystic within us and around us. And the prose is full of rich color as it brings the desert and Mother Divine alive.

Having seen Amritanandamayi (Ammachi) every year since 1987, I found this book to be disappointing. There is too much me, me, me, I, I, I, in this book. The book is too much about this author's emotional problems and how Ammachi's influence affect her. Why would anyone be interested in this person? She's not famous or anything. If you want to know more about Ammachi and her influence on people in the world I suggest buying the well written book: Amma, Healing the Heart of the World.

Om Amriteswarye Namah!

The Path of the Mother: With the Divine Guidance of the Holy Mother, Ammachi, written by Savitri L. Bess is fabulous! I hope to convey to those who have not yet read it the awesome power and love within its pages. This book is profound! From the first word I was engrossed and became encouraged. Savitri, with Mothers divine guidance, was successful in helping me take my first baby steps onto the path of the Mother, and so far it has been an inspirational and awkening spiritual journey. The book introduces the reader to The Divine Mother not only in Her beloved form as Sri Sri Mata Amritanandamayi, but introduces us to Her in the forms of several other female divine beings. By the books middle, all fear and anxiety within me about experincing God as Mother had dissipated. I knew God was validating, and even urging me, to seek Him out as a Her, and now (by Her grace), I am able to worship Her as BOTH Him and Her! They are equal to me as they are One. Not only does Savitri pack this incredible book with the biography's of other female sages, but she gives us tangible, insightful and helpful art projects and writing projects to aid us in bringing out some of our deeply supressed inner thoughts and emotions. I am so incredibly thankful to Mother for inspiring Savitri with this work, and I am thankful to Savitri for allowing Mother to use Her in this fashion. I know that each person who reads this book will derive from it exactly what The Divine Mother intends.

--Beneath Her Lotus Feet--
Amritasudha

My husband and I both loved this book. After eleven years with Ammachi, we recognized our path to the Mother in these pages. Ammachi is like a vast ocean holding many treasures and Savitri Bess has surfaced with pearls. Bess brings many years of spiritual practice, psychological understanding, knowledge of the goddess tradition and her own travels in India to nuance her subject. She also offers other examples of Divine Motherhood to enlarge our understanding of who Ammachi can be for us in our time. Charming stories, well-written. EXCELLENT choice of quotations from Ammachi herself. Two thumbs up!