Pavitra

Pavitra (January 16, 1894 – May 16, 1969) (from the Sanskrit word for "pure") was one of the very early disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The name was one of Srimati Radharani's 1000 names.

Early life He was born Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire in Paris. In 1914, he graduated from the Ècole Polytechnique with a degree in Engineering. He served in the army in World War I as an artillery officer, and after the war worked as a junior engineer in Paris, at the Ministry of transport and communication.

Quest He was interested in occultism, and in 1920 departed for Japan to study Zen Buddhism. In 1924, he left Japan and spent time with tantric lamas in monasteries in North China and Mongolia. that Pavitra left his body in a yogic way and merged with her.

According to Satprem (see note to "On Pavitra and Pavitra's Death"), Pavitra left memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, large parts of which were destroyed (almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks) by his closest collaborator, with the pretext that it would be "better left unsaid". What was left was published as Conversations avec Pavitra.

Partial bibliography L'évolution future de l'Humanité a compilation of texts by Sri Aurobindo (1962) The Message of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, (1954) Conversations avec Pavitra. Paris: "Fayard". Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondicherry, 1972