... He spied Pavitra-da coming out of the Ashram and told me “Go, ask him”. I went up to Pavitra-da and asked him what French leave meant. He hardly broke his step, and said “It is what we call “congé à l’Anglaise” = English leave! Pavitra-da moved on — I was left none the wiser. I learned the meaning much later though I was a practioner of the term for as long as I can remember. Pavitra-da later took... Pavitra Among the Not So Great Pondicherry Philippe booked into Hotel d’Europe. He then went to the Ashram. Sri Aurobindo was as yet meeting people and He agreed to see Philippe. The first day Philippe spoke to Sri Aurobindo. On the second day Sri Aurobindo spoke to Philippe — now PAVITRA. Philippe metamorphosed into Pavitra — the name given by Sri Aurobindo... home, in the military and in the monastries, etc. now stood him well. He was the Mother’s handyman. He was ever alert to hear the Mother’s call: “Pavitra, Pavitra!” and he would answer “oui Mère, oui Mère (Yes, Mother) and hurry to do Her bidding. Pavitra-da was appointed the Director of our School in 1943 — 2nd of December. He taught maths to the older students. He started the Atelier — Workshop ...
... of him, She used to call "Pavitra, Pavitra!" and he used to come running: "M è re, M è re." 20 She dropped in whenever She liked, to give him some work, to tell him something, etc. When She went to the balcony for the morning Darsban, she had to pass through his room, and at times Pavitra-da would be sleeping. And She used to hold his hands and say, "Wake up, Pavitra." His service was an absolute... to Him. Pavitra-da was entirely dedicated to the Divine. Mother said that, from the very beginning, he followed the path without the slightest vacillation, without turning either to the right or to the left; he followed the footsteps of the Master so closely and unwaveringly. This cannot be easily done or achieved, for most of us look to the right, to the left, behind, below, 14 Pavitra (Philippe... When Pavitra-da As for me, I did not have a very deep relationship with him. But I had many an occasion to watch him from a distance. I always felt, whenever I met him, that here was someone unique; and I came back with an impression of calm sweetness and radiant sympathy. Always he lived in a high plane of Light and seemed to be beckoning us from there. His very name, 'Pavitra,' suited ...
... raised platform with Pavitra-da beside her seated at a slightly lower level. The younger lot sat in front and right at the end, on the last bench, sat Nolini-da and Amrita-da. One day, Mother was trying to find the correct French translation of an English term. Mother asked Pavitra-da: "Now Pavitra, you're a pundit, tell me what would be the correct French equivalent?" Pavitra-da gave seven or... past us. Suddenly, Pavitra-da noticed a road block. With great skill he avoided the road block and swerved into a by way. Once he had overcome the danger, Pavitra-da stopped the car and began to laugh. On that day, even a little wavering could have caused a dangerous accident. Once, many years later, Mother was going to the Sports Ground by car. Pavitra-da was driving fast as ... and great affection, I am overwhelmed. I have kept the diary with me. Page 134 (104) I have told you that Mother would go out for drives. Pavitra-da drove and I used to accompany Mother. Pavitra-da drove very fast, sometimes between eighty to ninety miles an hour. Mother enjoyed being driven fast. When the car moved at great speed, Mother felt relaxed. ...
... You must be kept informed of what is there with Pavitra; otherwise you will be hampered in your work. You should also be consulted as to your requirements when an order is sent. As to the plans, the Mother, as you know, arranges them with you whenever any work has to be done. Put I suppose you are thinking of the plans for the new house of which Pavitra showed you a map. These are his suggestions and... happens, calm and at peace within and happy. It is the only way to keep the devil at a respectful distance. 9 October 1929 Sri Aurobindo Rene, In answer to your letter about your clash with Pavitra. If anybody in the Ashram tries to establish a supremacy or dominating influence over others, he is in the wrong. For it is bound to be a wrong vital influence and come in the way of the Mother's... be bad both for him and you. But there should be no quarrel or ill-feeling or keeping up of resentment or anger; for that too is not good for either. Certain things must be said in fairness to Pavitra. He can have had no conscious intention of injuring you with the Mother; for, if it were there the Mother would have seen it. And you may be sure that nothing of the kind could shake her confidence ...
... Pavitra: I suppose there is no need to feel discouraged. I am not at all discouraged, or even sad, about this process taking so long a time. Sri Aurobindo: No need at all. Pavitra: When I came here you saw in me certain possibilities and also certain difficulties. Now is there any change in the outlook? Sri Aurobindo: No. Pavitra: I mean: do... from Japan to Pondicherry on 26 December 1925. Having accepted him as a disciple, Sri Aurobindo gave him a new name, 'Pavitra'. They had spiritual talks spread over several months in 1926, and the record of these talks makes enlightening reading. On one occasion (8 March), on Pavitra remarking, "It would seem easier to overcome the causes of agitation by retiring from the world", Sri Aurobindo answered... avoid the shock and pressure of the thoughts of others directed towards us." 32 Then Pavitra asked whether what was happening to him was "the second birth", and Sri Aurobindo answered serenely, "Yes - but in this Yoga one must pass through many new births." On another occasion (1O May), Pavitra asked whether his giving up the desire for a union between science and occultism was right and ...
... May 17, 1969 ( About Pavitra's departure. Pavitra was the oldest French disciple; chemist and engineer of the École Polytechnique, he came to the Ashram in December, 1925, after having pursued his quest all the way to Mongolia's lamaseries. ) [Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925... 1964 : "They cut out and remove all that bothers them and leave only what suits them." Thus invaluable treasures disappeared. (See Sri Aurobindo, Conversations avec Pavitra , Fayard, 1972.)] You know that I used to see Pavitra every day, in the evening. He was in a poor state. But I had been forewarned (long ago) that his inner being was waiting for A. 1 to return before it would leave. I... exactly still, but no longer active. Then, the next morning, I saw A. (it was on the 16th), I saw A. at about 8:30 (naturally, Pavitra had been in bed since the day before, they had put him to bed), and in the morning, A. told me that just as he was about to come here, Pavitra opened his eyes and looked at him... So I told him, "I don't know, but with a yogic knowledge of the process, quite an extraordinary ...
... herself tremendously. Nolini-da and Pavitra-da were always present in this class. The Mother used to look upon Pavitra-da as her young son. If there was any scientific thing to be explained in the class, She at once called Pavitra-da. “Pavitra, O great pundit, would you kindly explain this question?” And Her eyes would light up with mischievous glee. Poor Pavitra-da looked a little flustered in front... instead of writing vraiment I wrote vraiement . Pavitra-da started teasing me. I told the Mother: “In French it is with the feminine form of the adjective that the adverb is made.” She called Pavitra-da and said: “Now, great pundit, explain to her why you should write vraiment .” And the Mother went on looking teasingly at Pavitra-da. Pavitra-da just said: “Priti, this is how it is written... eastern side in a small room. This was the same room where She gave interviews. In fact we called it the Mother’s Interview Room. Pavitra-da’s laboratory was in a smaller room next to it. All the students of this class were grown-ups. We were about ten or twelve: Pavitra-da, Nolini-da, Amrita-da, Kalyan-da, Dayakar, Ranju, Amiyo and we five girls, Minnie-di, Millie-di, Tehmi-ben, Violette and I. ...
... Aurobindo gave him the name "Pavitra" (Pure), and the bud of his aspiration was to open out gradually into a noble efflorescence, and he was to become one of the utterly and uncompromisingly faithful and genuine of the Aurobindonian apostles. When Pavitra felt at an early stage some difficulties with his sadhana Sri Aurobindo asked Mirra to give a helping hand. Pavitra meditated with her for about... always following him! Thus, on 16 October, Pavitra told Sri Aurobindo that what he got in his meditations with the Mother was "invaluable", and he realised that much more had been received than his surface consciousness was prepared to admit. Next day Pavitra had another session with the Mother: Mother: I felt you very close all the day. Pavitra: But this puts me to sleep. Mother:... she told Pavitra: When you have overcome the difficulties of your outer being, you will pass through a progressive initiation. I shall show you, through the eyes, all that is there in the universe.. .. You will then see the exact place of all these things. 35 Wasn't this the promise of the viśvarūpa, of the apocalyptic vision of -One-in-the-All and the All-in-the-One? Pavitra was to ...
... spread. Now there are many countries in which women are in the Government. ( To Pavitra ) Are there any in France? Are there women members of Parliament? (Pavitra) Yes. There are? (Pavitra) Yes. Ministers. There was one. No. Secretary of State, not minister. There were some, they have tried. (Pavitra) There is a Minister of Education. No, not that, but Secretary of State; there... discoveries... ( To Pavitra ) Is similar matter known in the other worlds as that on the earth? (Pavitra) Everywhere, Mother. Up to now no difference has been found in the matter not only of the solar system but also of the others. It is all the same. And then, how is it that we are told that human beings could not live on other planets, not even on Jupiter or Venus? (Pavitra) The elements are... example in Jupiter there would be an atmosphere of ammonia and carbonic gas... Yes. So the formation is not the same after all? (Pavitra) The physical body, evidently, organic matter cannot be the same. Yes, the one people usually know... (Pavitra) ... cannot be the same. Cannot be the same, you see. Are there psychic beings up there or are they only in Matter? I have heard ...
... fruit it was, it may have been a fruit that Mother liked. Mother told Pavitra-da that the fruits should be finished while they were still fresh. Then jokingly Mother said: "You know Pranab, the place Pavitra comes from in France, the people there never eat fresh fruit. They store the fresh fruit and eat the stale ones." Pavitra-da got a little angry and said: "And rightly too! If you don't eat the... the north-side room on the second-floor. Pavitra-da, who had removed the carpet from the verandah in front of the room and was wearing leather shoes, was delightfully giving a display of tap-dancing in front of Mother. I could see that both were enjoying themselves immensely. One day, I don't remember if it was his birthday or a Darshan day, I saw Pavitra-da wearing a beautiful 'kanchi' dhoti (a... without interrupting his laughter he told Mother: "Someone told me that I was looking like a son-in-law. The famous Bengali 'jamai-babu'." At this, both Mother and Pavitra-da laughed even more. Sometimes Mother used to try and make Pavitra-da Page 240 Mother on a visit to Biren's room (Pranab also lived here) in 1954 Page 241 ...
... came away to Pondicherry after I had arrived. Sri Aurobindo gave him the name ‘Arjavananda’ — in short, Arjava. The Mother’s car was driven by Pavitra, Doraiswamy sat by his side while we followed this car in a small Fiat. We visited many places far away. Pavitra seemed to know where to go, where to stop, which direction to take. A great experience it was to be with the Mother, the atmosphere changing... though they had come only for a temporary stay. She wrote: “Sahana, Pavitra is taking out the car this afternoon. I thought that Aruna and her two children might like to go for a drive. It seems to me that Kunal can go also; he is quite strong enough now for the drive to do him good. Will you inform them that Pavitra will be at their house with the car at 4.30?” (21 May 1932) How happy... lived in one room, by the side of which was the room of Amrita 3 . Ambalal Purani 4 had a room on the left side of the outer courtyard. Purani was once leader of the Gujarat youth movement. Pavitra 5 (name given by Sri Aurobindo) lived in the upper storey of a building which was joined with the western side of the main building. His French name was Philippe Barbier de Saint-Hilaire. In one ...
... consciousness [of Pavitra] has been especially preserved intact because it entered here [into Mother], or whether it's always like that?... Where does someone conscious go? Does he remain here?... 1 I told you, with Amrita, it's a sort of not too precise form; it's always there, now resting, now waking up, but he doesn't seem to be particularly interested in material things. While Pavitra, from what I... earth." × Pavitra was the School's director and the Ashram's general secretary. × Pavitra had a very high fever before leaving his body. Might that be what Mother felt in her body? ... something interesting.... There was a photo with you there (there was A., there was the governor, there was...), just when you were all lowering the coffin. And then... (you know, this presence of Pavitra hasn't merged with the rest [of Mother]: it has remained there very peacefully, he is very peaceful—it hasn't merged), and then, just as I looked at the photo and saw you, there was something like ...
... 1942, at the age of sixty-six. My brother Abhay assisted Pavitra in his Workshop also, learning to handle all sorts of machinery. Page 41 Pavitra was very particular about his machines, but soon had confidence in the way Abhay handled them. Finally, Abhay was put in complete charge of running the Workshop, with Pavitra remaining as consulting Head. Now, one day, while Abhay was... powders for different usages, or Blue Water for the eyes, and so on (all formulas courtesy Pavitra). More likely than not it was just a pretext for Mother to stand talking to us. Looking back it seems to me that the few minutes with us refreshed her no end. Anyway, our joy was indescribable. Hearing her voice Pavitra would come and join us. Once, I don't know how it cropped up, Mother started telling... with Pine Bath received from France, which Mother used in her baths. Pavitra dropped in for some work or other —I was also his secretary —and stood looking at the dark green colour of the liquid, with a golden-russet tint to it. Mother was passing by just then. Seeing us, she too came in. She asked what we were talking about. Pavitra said he was asking me what the colour reminded me of. (As a matter ...
... light, and who search for it alone, or apparently alone.’ Pavitra, as an engineer and chemist, was a true scientist. The editor of Conversations avec Pavitra, the annotation of Pavitra’s conversations with Sri Aurobindo, writes in his preface the following intriguing paragraph: ‘In a brief monologue, part of a theatre play, Pavitra represented a chemist (like himself) who in the course of his... become well-known for a variety of reasons: Dyuman, Champaklal, Barin, Purani, Dilip Kumar Roy, Pavitra, Pujalal, Nirodbaran, K.D. Sethna (of his Ashram name Amal Kiran), etc. Others, and not necessarily less notable, have given their best in anonymity. In 1925 there were about fifteen of them, according to Pavitra; a year later, when, the small group around Sri Aurobindo and the Mother officially became... are giving here a brief sketch of the well-documented lives of two other disciples with very dissimilar backgrounds and whom we will meet again further on. Let us first take the above-mentioned Pavitra. He was a Frenchman, called Philippe B. Saint-Hilaire before Sri Aurobindo gave him his Sanskrit name signifying ‘the Pure’. He had an engineering diploma from the renowned École polytechnique in ...
... teachers at the Ashram's Center of Education who wrote Mother asking if 'only' Sri Aurobindo should be studied. Pavitra was present during this conversation. ) An eight page letter—nothing but passion. (Pavitra:) Yes, Mother. It's all from up here ( Mother touches her forehead ). (Pavitra:) Passion and reactions. Passion, passion—but this passion and these reactions are the same, thing.... heads till I enter right into them. Page 406 ( Pavitra hands Mother a new French dictionary, the 'All-in-One' ) Oh! French verbs! ... (Pavitra:) Yes, Mother; in this dictionary each verb is shown—the category it is in, how it is conjugated... The verbs ... ... Take 'choyer' [coddle, pamper], for example... (Pavitra shows Mother), it's conjugated like 'aboyer' [snarl, bark]... psychological subtleties! But it's especially for the spelling of verbs. I believe I know how to conjugate! (Pavitra:) It has everything—how to play bridge, how to play tennis, the art of carving a chicken... Fine. (Satprem:) 'All-in-One,' it's rather like yoga! (After Pavitra leaves) I'm continuing The Yoga of Self-Perfection . It's really something ... I shall never tire of saying ...
... Undated (March) 1962 ( At the beginning of this conversation Mother has Pavitra called in to discuss certain letters and controversies concerning a teacher at the Ashram School. ) You know how children get together and play court or school or army... you know how serious they can be, don't you? (Pavitra:) Yes, Mother. And if someone makes a mistake, how he's punished!... Well, that's... whether they comprehend or make progress or not. That's how it is. He browbeats them in class, and the students are bored. (Pavitra:) Yes, Mother, it's true. The problem isn't what he teaches, but how he teaches it—and what are you going to do about that? (Pavitra:) I'm going to leave it as it is and simply tell him you said we should continue as before. Page 113 No, I find his... "Now we are going to play court... now we are going to play school...." That's what I saw. "It's like this and NOT like that and be sure you don't make any mistakes. This is serious business!" (Pavitra:) But Mother, I had no intention of making any decision; but when S. sends one letter, two letters, and then asks for Mother's reply, I have no other option but to turn to you. But Mother does ...
... One day, Pavitra-da called me and said that the Mother wanted me to take French classes from the following year (1957). This is how it happened: in those days Tinkori-da used to look after the Bengali section. He had conveyed to Pavitra-da through Sisir-da that the Bengali section was in need of teachers and he had suggested my name. As soon as Pavitra-da informed the Mother about... me, I was flabbergasted. I did not say anything to Pavitra-da. Later, when I went for the Mother's darshan, I told Her, "Mother, Page 96 Pavitra-da told me a few days ago that you wanted me to take French classes next year." Mother - Yes, the School wanted you to take Bengali classes. So I told Pavitra that you would not take Bengali but French classes ...
... some trouble Page 138 between Mrityunjoy and Pavitra-da. Pavitra-da called me upstairs to work and Mrityunjoy called me down to the workshop. I obeyed them quietly. Then Mother came and called me upstairs immediately. She said, "You are going to listen to Pavitra and not to Mrityunjoy." So when Mrityunjoy left the workshop, Pavitra-da was in charge of it. (Abhay-da was given full... sixteen. I was born in 1924, so in 1940 I was sixteen. But I was coming here from the age of eleven. I came in 1935. So from that time I am in the Ashram. I was doing whatever work was given to me. Pavitra-da would call me to work in his laboratory where we were making tooth powder, face powder, blue water for eyes and hair lotion which Mother used to give to Nolini-da and other people. Then pastilles... full charge of the workshop by the Motlier when Pavitra became the Director of the Centre of Education. After a few years, the workshop in the main Ashram compound was turned into Pavitra's office and Abhay-da shifted his office to the present Atelier premises. How did he spread his wings?) It was always a period of expansion from '65 onwards, wasn't it? In 65 it was always expanding ...
... Most 21st century, I am sure. Even Wodehouse hasn't that! It is both. You don't know the story of Pavitra and Khitish and the bother? Pavitra who had just come here with a rather French pronunciation of English, said to K "I am a brother to you all" and Khitish cried out "Oh, no, no!" Pavitra insisted, but Khitish still cried out with pain and politeness in his voice "Oh, no! no! no!" It turned... And yet it was Valle himself who wrote saying that they would not impose their doctors or infirmiers upon us! Valle and Gaffiero don't pull on well together. Mother has asked Pavitra to see Gaffiero tomorrow. Pavitra will be going at 9, so you must go to Pavitra's before 9. April 8, 1937 "Creating language from the sleep of God", how can one do that? From where else are you going... it was so here. If it may be harmful, how can it be declared harmless? Otherwise I don't see why after 6 or 8 motions, diarrhoea should have started. Ideas differ. Both the Mother and Pavitra were horrified at the idea of a child of 4 months being given a purgative. The leading Children's doctor in France told the Mother no child under 12 months should be given a purgative, as it is likely ...
... Coué—it was at the beginning of the century, I think... ( Mother turns to Pavitra. ) (Pavitra) I saw him in 1917 or 1918 in Paris. Page 5 Yes, that's right, the beginning of the century, the first quarter of the century. You knew him? (Pavitra) In Paris, yes. Ah, ah! tell us about it. (Pavitra) I heard one or two of his lectures. The method he gave to the sick was to repeat... at school." And then again, "I don't tell lies any more. I shall never lie again." (Pavitra) At first it was to be said in the future and afterwards one drew closer to the future and so finished in the present. Oh, one finishes in the present. And how long did it take? Page 6 (Pavitra) It depended on the person. It depends on the case. "I shall not tell lies again, it is... every evening, several times a day, with conviction, clasping the hands like this... Oh! if one lost one's temper: "I am becoming better and better, I don't lose my temper now." ( Laughter ) (Pavitra) Every day I am becoming more and more intelligent. That's really good. Why, and if you repeat to a child, if you make him repeat, "I am good, day by day more and more." "I am better and better ...
... nothing has been done. I've never heard Pavitra complain about it! ( laughter ) I see Pavitra very often, almost every night. Maybe he likes it that way. Even last night I saw him: he was in Japan. When did they leave? Amritada left on January 31, 1969 and Pavitrada in May, May 16. Oh, Pavitra left after. You know, time and me.... Pavitra is here, he's very active, he stays near... don't see that much. Pavitra was absorbed into me and I put him back into a form little by little, and when he was completely formed, I brought him out and he stays very close here. What does he do? He meets people, he does all sorts of things. What work does he do? He meets people, talks, but he's here, he hasn't left the earth's atmosphere. Amrita left to rest; Pavitra is here, in the... September 14, 1971 ( Sujata's visit to Mother. The day before, Sujata had gone to the Cazanove gardens, in the suburbs of Pondicherry, to see the tombstones of Pavitra and Amrita. ) (Sujata:) Yesterday I went to visit Cazanove. Oh, why? To see Amritada and Pavitrada.... You know, nothing has been done, no work until now to cover the tombs, in two years ...
... read "The Scientist" today, and next week we shall directly take up "The Unknown Man". ( After Mother has read "The Scientist", Pavitra gets ready to read the questions. ) So, will you read them, Pavitra? You can't see well? We can switch on the light again. (Pavitra) No, no, it is all right, Mother. The scientist speaks of two postulates with which he has undertaken the research of the... humanity suffers and it is not with beautiful ideas that it is cured. Page 314 Something else is necessary. This perhaps we shall see at the end when we come to it. For the moment... (Pavitra) The second postulate: "That it is possible to know the universe as it really is, to grasp its laws objectively." The kind of regularity which we observe in the universe and translate into what... scientific field, and why no progress in his... You think so? Who has told you this? It is here (in the text), it is said that we are almost in the Stone Age... Ah, ah! It's he ( pointing to Pavitra ) who has said it. ( Laughter ) Perhaps man had to prepare his mind first. In the Stone Age his mind was a little rustic, eh! there wasn't much stuff there. He had to develop it before being able ...
... Mongolia and finally found them (Mother and Sri Aurobindo) here — but all that is another story for another day. When Pavitra-da arrived, he was put to work for Charu-da!! (Can anyone imagine such a scenario now: a newly arrived sadhak given to work for another older sadhak!?) Pavitra-da humbly went about doing the work assigned to him. But Charu-da was not completely pleased. He did not very much relish... Aurobindo had arrived here on the same day 18 years earlier.) Charu-da came and enquired: “ Kothai amar shaheb chakor ?” (where is my white servant?) But by then Pavitra-da had passed his test and moved on, to be closer to and serve the Mother. (Pavitra-da had started a workshop — the precursor of present Atelier.) Charu-da too moved on, he was put in charge of the Dining Room counter. He served then as... (vision) of Lord Narayana. Charu-da identified Him as Sri Aurobindo. He returned to Pondicherry in 1928. During his first stay here, a Frenchman named Barbier Saint Hilaire arrived. He was later named “Pavitra” by Sri Aurobindo (all would, or should be knowing him. He was a great man by all accounts. Suffice it to say he was very close to the Mother, a yogi, Her “ sarathi ”, and the first Director of Education ...
... Pavitra Among the Not So Great Pavitra-Da (Philippe Barbier Saint Hilaire) (1894-1969) The art of living consists of keeping earthly step to heavenly music. Nikolayevich Panin Pavitra-da was a well-known figure in our Ashram. He was a multi-faceted genius, but managed to dissimulate all his brilliance under a layer of ordinariness... school. We can read him, or analyse him better, after a closer acquaintance with him and his life. Pavitra-da was born in Paris in the year 1894, on the 16th of January. His father — Paul Barbier Saint Hilaire — was typically French, cultured and a strict father, yet affectionate and understanding. Pavitra-da, as Philippe, at a very young age showed an aptitude to things mechanical. He got a bicycle as ...
... you are bound to overcome all the other difficulties also. February 12,1937 Certainly you can arrange Thursday for Baron. 8 4 MonodHerzen 8 5 spoke to Pavitra about him and Pavitra said he could come but as yet he has not turned up. Of course we did not hear of his surrealism, only of his desire to contact a spiritual centre like this while he was in India. That... this matter of Page 271 friendship and Yoga—then why allow somebody's opinion that Mother thinks this or that—cancel my own express pronouncement and get upset over it. Certainly Pavitra was not commissioned or authorised by the Mother to say these things, she had not even spoken to him about this matter; he expressed only his own idea about it. So you need not have any compunctions... he is—everybody seems to be favourably impressed by him already. Mother will see B. and hear his music tomorrow at 12.30. So you will come with him then. February 18,1937 Pavitra had no authority to say that Mother could be displeased or that you were to blame. Mother did not like that Suvrata 97 should push herself like that and come, but she never had the idea that ...
... And he came with me; when I left for India (the second time), he came with me. And long after my return—long after, when Pavitra came here—one night, I suddenly saw F. and Pavitra embracing each other! Just like that. Then F. entered him. And the interesting thing is that Pavitra had no liking for poetry and very little interest in art, and after that boy united with him, he began having a very special... I have seen several such cases, but that one was so clear! So clear, so precise. And without the collaboration of active thought—I wasn't thinking about it at all: one night I saw them like that, Pavitra having come out of his body, and the other leaving... (he was always in repose in my aura), he left my aura, they embraced, and then one entered the other. 1 He was quite young, he was twenty-one... × The extremely interesting fact is that a little later Mother will see the same phenomenon (of this "dead person" uniting with Pavitra) anew, with the consciousness of the cells, and that new vision of the body will bring out details that had escaped Mother's occult vision, as if the body alone could see accurately what is "on the ...
... uniqueness. I have heard this from Pavitra. He was in Japan in the year 1923 and had personally witnessed this. Once all the volcanoes erupted together. Japan had not known so much destruction and devastation earlier. The tremors of the earthquakes were felt world wide and Japan had lost more than 50% of its people. In a period of quietness between the volcanic eruptions Pavitra asked his group of students... and gathering outside. Some had lost everything, while some had partially damaged houses. Some houses were still crumbling down. There was destruction everywhere. But, the amazing thing according to Pavitra was, no one was crying or screaming or expressing his grief. Everyone was silent, even children were not crying. The Japanese know from the time they are born that these things happen. It is expected... was beyond control, they started calling everyone to take away whatever they wanted to from the shop. Fearing a law and order problem the police stepped in and stopped this activity. Finally, Pavitra and his students reached their laboratory. Wooden stairs led to their 2nd floor laboratory. Opening the door all of them were relieved. Unexpectedly but surprisingly there was not much damage. Only ...
... 1958), pp. 206-207. ² Ibid., p. 329. Page 136 observed a similar capacity: Philippe Barbier St. Hilaire, known in the Ashram, under the name given by Sri Aurobindo, "Pavitra" (meaning "The Pure"). When I first came to the Ashram he also had a fine brown Bossanquetish beard as a base to a highly intelligent and happy-looking face. After a search in the Far East — Japan... along with the same spiritual quest as his, brought us together from the beginning in a friendship which kept fresh to the end of his life. I could not help understanding why he had been renamed "Pavitra" and I was glad that the inner purity was free of all taint of prudishness and went with an outer gaiety which in turn had nothing loud about it. The Mother bestowed a lot of attention on him and... and, most recently, Ramakrishna — three examples par excellence of the psychic being's love-light within the context of the old-world spirituality which put its goal in the Beyond — had taken Pavitra as its channel for the new Yoga. There can be no question that the presence of the psychic being could be perceived in him by all who enjoyed even a little association with him. At times a scho ...
... a! All goody-goody," Gopal bodo shubodh balok." 90 There is another joke of Pavitra-da. I've heard it from my friend Amal, but you must take it with a pinch of salt. Pavitra-da used to, at the beginning, it seems, do some carpentry work, and Amal was in charge of the Furniture department. Pavitra-da prepared some blocks, and after preparing them, he took them to Amal and said, "You see... like a statue talking, and we would be listening). He said, "It was at the beginning of the Ashram. There were a few, just a handful of inmates. Pavitra had joined the Ashram recently. So these few inmates were talking together round the table. Pavitra-da approached them and said, "Gentlemen, I'm your brother." He had arrived recently and did not know English well, so I don't know how he pronounced... French accent: perhaps as 'borrther'. These people took the word to be 'bother'. Then they protested violently: "No, no, no, you are not a bother." [Laughter) The more they protested, the more Pavitra-da insisted, "No, no, no, I'm your bother." ( Laughter) So this thing went on; that's why Sri Aurobindo said "bothers are our brothers". There used to be quite a lot of fun of that sort here; well ...
... She is old, she is old ...” Mother said with that poignant pain. “They don’t want you anymore.” Some ten years before, Mother had with a strange smile recounted to me what she had already told Pavitra in the presence of Sujata, at the end of 1950, just after Sri Aurobindo’s departure: she had received a letter from Mrs Alexandra David-Neel, an “old friend” of hers she had known well in Paris... What’s today’s date? January 6, 1991 — bah-bah! Well. You know, for me it was more or less connected to Indira’s [Gandhi] visit. Did she come to the Ashram? Yes, she even spent the night at Pavitra-da’s, as far as I can recall. Well, I remember it was around that date. I think I had this vision in the night, most probably (because I have many visions in the afternoon, too). So, I was on the... went on walking. That is to say, she was coming nearer and nearer to where I stood. Then she took a few more steps and she reached... how could I say? Do you know this staircase climbing up to Pavitra-da’s? Yes. Well, once again, but without any effort, the dress made another man roll down, and brushed him away... Well, this second man was Barun Tagore! 22 Strangely enough! Brushed ...
... earlier but she had prolonged his life-span. Some time after the departure of Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire) the Mother said to a sadhak: "Amrita and Pavitra are both within me, but time and again Amrita comes out in his subtle body and sits in front of me along with whoever is having an interview with me whereas Pavitra remains inside and keeps looking out half-amusedly." Right up to... my Yogic equanimity. In the early days there was a good deal of talk about past births. The being who had been behind Jesus, Chaitanya and, most recently, Ramakrishna was said to be behind Pavitra now. St. Paul and Vivekananda were seen in the background of Anilbaran. In connection with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution ...
... earlier but she had prolonged his life-span. Some time after the departure of Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire) the Mother said to a sadhak: "Amrita and Pavitra are both within me, but time and again Amrita comes out in his subtle body and sits in front of me along with whoever is having an interview with me whereas Pavitra remains inside and keeps looking out half- amusedly." Right up to the... unfailing co-operation. In the early days there was a good deal of talk about past births. The being who had been behind Jesus, Chaitanya and, most recently, Ramakrishna was said to be behind Pavitra now. St. Paul and Vivekananda were seen in the background of Anilbaran. In connection with Nolini we heard of Roman Virgil and the late-renaissance French poet Ronsard as well as the French-revolution ...
... told you this story I think, when I spoke of Pavitra-da. Khitish was an old disciple. One day, Sri Aurobindo told us: You don't know the story of Pavitra and Khitish and the 'bother'? Pavitra, who had just come here with a rather Frenchified English, said to Khitish: 'I am a brother to you all,' and Khitish cried out, 'Oh, no, no!' Pavitra insisted [again], but Khitish cried out, with ...
... human activity and human civilisation began to take place, and for this, even from the beginning of this till today... we have figures, haven't we, approximately...? ( turning to Pavitra ) Pavitra, do you know them? (Pavitra) I don't remember them now. There are figures, but they are quite enormous. And this is only the period that can be called historic—though it isn't so, ordinarily reckoning—but... to pass behind appearances. Let us hope that he will be quite kind. There we are. That's all? I think it is finished, unless someone has a very important question to ask me. Pavitra? Page 329 (Pavitra) What will be man's attitude towards the superman? Ah! ( Laughter ) Let us hope that it is not the same attitude as the one which man has towards all his gods, because he has rather ...
... and mathematician ) Pavitra! Will you please explain that to these children? Pavitra: It means that the description of the universe varies with each observer—to put it in one sentence. Is that all! Why is there so much fuss over this discovery? Pavitra: It is a revolution, Mother! It is a revolution? That what one sees depends on who sees? Ah! Well... Pavitra: What one measures depends... depends upon the physical Page 281 universe, from the point of view of the physical sciences. Physical sciences, yes. For measuring the universe, each one measures it in his own way. Pavitra: But then, complementary to that, it has been found that behind there is something independent of the observer. Ah! they have "discovered" that? ( laughter ) A still greater revolution!... ( loud ...
... Amrita-da (or Pavitra-da?) informed Bula-da about the Mother’s condition and added that the flush was stuck and water was constantly gushing out. It had to be repaired. Bula-da was in a fix. At that time of the evening, none could enter Her room, leave alone repairing a flush. Bula-da thought — and acted. The night passed uneventfully. Next morning the flush was repaired and Amrita-da (or Pavitra-da?) informed... obey you, they listen to you.” One day during the War, when Sri Aurobindo had to have the news of the War, the speaker went dead. (The radio was kept in Pavitra-da’s room. A long wire connected the speaker in Sri Aurobindo’s room to the radio.) Pavitra-da was not around. Mother summoned Bula-da. He came running and said: “Mother, I don’t know anything about radio engineering.” She said: “Does not matter ...
... Mother? Ah, my child, it is something that was in vogue, very much in vogue at the beginning of the century... no, in the middle of the century! ( Mother turns to Pavitra ) Do you know, Pavitra, when it was in fashion? (Pavitra) At the beginning of the century. At the beginning of the century, that's it. This is what Sri Aurobindo says: dangerous, useless, ignorant, superficial; and it... of nature, you must be always careful to keep a vigilant connection with..." But there's no question about its being easier or more difficult. What does she want to say? Page 112 (Pavitra) There is a paragraph: "If you go down into your lower parts or ranges of nature, you must be always careful to keep a vigilant connection with the higher... levels of the consciousness," etc. Then ...
... Mother turns to Pavitra ) It seems to me that there's at least a word missing. (Pavitra) I shall verify it with the English on our return. No. It may be like this in English. I can imagine the English sentence, but in French it is not clear. ( Mother takes up the book ) Yes, it is right at the beginning. ( Mother reads the sentence ) Oh! Yes, yes... it is not clear. 2 (Pavitra) That's it;... are hundreds of these things here, Sweet Mother! There are hundreds of copies? Yes, Mother. They make collections of them. (Another child) Of different books, not the same books. (Pavitra) More than a hundred. (Second child) Different books, not this. (First child) All books; of the best books they make this and then the children read this stuff and don't read the books. ...
... you are reading, personally I feel that all that I do is funny! From top to bottom everything has to be reorganised. I didn't catch the end of the sentence. (Pavitra) Everything has to be reorganised. Yes. Why? (Pavitra) Everything is funny. "All that I do is funny!" Funny! Ah! That is why I didn't understand. Funny, yes; but from a certain point of view it is true; what everybody... it isn't true, there is an enormous loss of consciousness. Is it possible to change this at once, change this consciousness? Change?... (Pavitra) Change this, change this consciousness at once? Page 192 Immediately? (Pavitra) In a few minutes. One feels that it will be a revolution to change that. Yes, but a revolution can occur in half a second; it can also take years ...
... April 25, 1961 ( Mother comes in with a book by Alice Bailey, 'Discipleship in the New Age,' which had recently been sent to her. Pavitra is present and shows Mother a brochure he has received, 'World Goodwill Bulletin,' and protests against this proliferation of movements all claiming to work towards 'world union,' and proselytes making... so I agreed to be President—to guarantee that the money would really go to work for Sri Aurobindo, that's all. But no spiritual responsibility; I have nothing to teach to anyone, thank God! (Pavitra.) But Mother, A. has also been bitten by the propaganda bug; in the by-laws he sent, he put: 'The goal of the Centre Page 181 d'Etudes de Sri Aurobindo [Sri Aurobindo Study Center, in... taking something of an inward nature and you want to externalize it, so naturally it immediately goes rotten.'(But it's almost over now, I've pulled the rug out from under them.) Anyway.... (Pavitra.) Yes, but now it's resurging in the form of the Sri Aurobindo Society. Ah, no! That's not the same thing at all, They have nothing to do with each other. Nothing. They wanted to merge: I refused ...
... to drive the tractor.' Page 189 (Pavitra:) What was he holding in his hands, Mother? Huge tires... He was standing there, like that, with a very majestic air. He was wearing his white outfit, those long pyjamas... (Abhay Singh:) Yesterday he drove the station wagon for the visitors. Does it also have large tires? (Pavitra:) A little bigger than jeep tires. No, it came... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 August 30, 1958 ( In the presence of Pavitra and Abhay Singh, Mother recounts a vision she had during the night ) [Abhay Singh: The disciple who managed the Ashram 'Atelier': mechanical workshop, maintenance garage, automobile service, etc.] It was just at four o'clock in the morning, and... gesture ). So it must have been a tractor tire. What could it represent, he, and the tractor?... I don't know... It was not personal, you see—I mean this body. It had nothing to do with that. (Pavitra:) The industrialization of India? ( silence ) I don't know. Page 190 × A young disciple who worked ...
... "Golconde," the Ashram's guest house. ) Have you seen the Raymonds' letter?... They've written a very sweet letter. In their letter, they write something I didn't know, which Pavitra had never told me; they say that when Pavitra put them in contact with here, it completely changed their lives, the aim of their lives and everything. Raymond is a great architect. When they came here 1 and built "Golconde... the center, Sri Aurobindo's house ( gesture on a hilltop ). Sri Aurobindo was alive, so we had put him at the center. ( silence ) Pavitra has remained wholly conscious, independent. For instance, when I was read this very letter of the Raymonds, it was Pavitra Page 216 who listened! And who had all the reactions.... It's very interesting. It's something quite unexpected.... There are ...
... For the last three months she had no periods at all. Many of the women here have very fanciful periods—but I suppose that is fairly common everywhere. Pavitra has a medicine for blood circulation and regularity of menses. You might ask Pavitra about it. These medicines (he has more than one) are the latest discoveries in Europe of which samples have been sent here. D is all right. But can you... you know, are not to be trifled with! Hail, Reason, holy Light! etc. But it is a great pity she did not act on her intuition; she asked whether it was not necessary to open the wound and see, but Pavitra told her Andre had not found it necessary as there was no pain. But evidently something went seriously wrong. Mother, thinking of this case and one or two others, I feel ashamed of my poor knowledge... lemon-water. March 23, 1935 As regards S's case, could it have been due to syphilitic gumma in the brain, the symptoms of which were brought out by the exciting cause? The Surgeon told Pavitra, I think, that even hereditary syphilitic tendency could expose one to the results and 90% (in Europe perhaps—India may not yet have caught up in the race) were open to it! Some exaggeration perhaps ...
... inspiration. That'll make you understand what good music is. From now on you'll tell me and I'll select the right music for your drills." From that day I started going to Pavitra-da's room in the afternoons. On Mother's directions Pavitra-da would play the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, etc. on the gramophone. After a few days Mother asked me: "Can you now feel what good music is?" For... Page 16 pocket, .intending to eat it at some more opportune moment during the drive. We used to be driven by Pavitra-da. I sat beside him and Mother sat behind. After some time, I quietly brought out the packet of chocolate and gave Pavitra-da a piece. Suddenly I felt Mother poking at my back like naughty girls do. I turned to look at her and with a sweet smile she ...
... "Are you strong-hearted enough? Will you be able to bear the photos without getting upset?" "Pavitra-da," I replied, "the victors have always behaved atrociously with the losers. This isn't true only of the Germans. They're all the same." "What are you saying, Pranab?" Pavitra-da retorted, "can you justify this abominable heartlessness? Has anyone ever behaved like this?" I said:... O ne night I had gone to Mother's room upstairs for dinner. It was almost ten o'clock. Mother went into the bathroom to prepare two sets of "mouthwash" to be used after the meal. Just then Pavitra-da entered holding some papers and photographs. He looked rather upset as he exclaimed: "Pranab, you know how ruthless the Germans are! You'd shudder to know the kind of atrocities they're... Their only work was to explore this question. They were called alchemists. They would try to make gold and to discover the secret principle of eternal youth and immortality. Once Mother told Pavitra-da in jest that he had been an alchemist in his previous life. Page 163 (7) I am reminded of four stories told to me by Mother about her childhood. Mother was five ...
... sensibility; and, even as Sri Aurobindo gave spiritually suggestive names to some of the sadhaks, the Mother gave new tell-tale names to the flowers. Just as Philippe Barbier de St.-Hilaire became "Pavitra", K. D. Sethna "Amal Kiran", Miss Hodgson "Datta", J. A. Chadwick "Arjava", Jenny Dobson "Chidanandini", Madame Yvonne Gaebele "Suvrata", Mehdi Begum "Chinmayi", Janet McPheeters "Shantimayi", and... exercise in which the Mother engaged the sadhaks in those distant evenings of 1931 for a continuous period of almost six weeks. A number of passages were spotted out by sadhaks like Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Dyuman, Chinmayi, Rajangam, Sethna, Purushottam, Datta and by the Mother herself. Every time, whatever the volume Page 325 opened, a seminal passage was located - a passage that was... (Duraiswami) To be in complete union with You. (Dyuman) To live only for Mother as if nobody and nothing else existed. (Lalita) Divinising life. (Nolini) To return home. (Pavitra) 20 Seven out of the fourteen definitions pointedly mention the Mother, and even in the others there is the clear sense or feeling for the Divine. According to Amal, the "five prominent workers" ...
... determinism of the movements of Universal Nature"? You know the law of determinism, don't you? You have not studied philosophy at all? ( Turning to a professor ) Pavitra, explain what determinism is to them. Try to be brief and clear. Pavitra: I think determinism is this: when something happens, it always has the same effect. If it is the same thing—on condition it is identically the same thing... noted them down; and we too, we may make discoveries but don't always take care to note them down and make them accessible to others. And Nature is an almost infinite field of study and discovery. Pavitra: Those who discovered explosives—how many died and how many had accidents.... That's man, it is his own fault. If he had not meddled with that, it would not have happened. Often he may have ...
... then put the light upon it so that it changes. Nothing? Any questions? What? ( Mother turns to Pavitra who is seated with his eyes closed. ) Pavitra has a question? ( He remains motionless, not having heard Mother. His neighbour pokes him with his pen to draw him out from his meditation. Pavitra opens his eyes amidst laughter. Mother tells him :) A question? ( He makes a sign that he has no question ...
... reproduced! This edition is ours. ( Mother shows the book printed at the Ashram Press. ) Exactly! Yes, it is "inner". It is the inner vital. Yes, it should be "inner" here, as "the inner physical". ( Pavitra asks whether the error has been reproduced in all the editions. ) In all the editions there seems to be (" inférieur ") instead of " intérieur ".) But this is our own edition, and we should have corrected... last part. Which words exactly don't you understand? "And opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature." Handle victoriously!... You don't know what this means? ( Pavitra re-reads the sentence which had been incorrectly pronounced. ) Opening from below—that is, something which comes from above and forces itself up from below, forces its way, makes a kind of road, a... would manifest. It can mean this, that is to say, it may want to express the fact that the two extremities meet, as in a circle, you know, the beginning and the end touch. It can mean this. Pavitra: Mother, that's what the French means—the French translation! Obviously! Only, it is not said in these very words. It means, in Page 209 fact—whether it is said in this way or another ...
... haven't asked for four blockheads." Sometimes it is the pronunciation that plays havoc. When Pavitra 1 was here in the early days he used to pronounce English in a Frenchier way than now. His "r" was very French indeed. The French "r" is from the throat and to a non-French ear it may be almost inaudible. Now Pavitra said very often to a Bengali sadhaka who had become friendly with him: "I am a brother to... to you all." The friend always heard, "I am a bother to you all". And naturally he said with emphatic politeness, "Oh no, no!" and Pavitra would feel such an outcast on being refused to be considered a brother. He thought the Indians so very peculiar. You will find this story told by Sri Aurobindo in his correspondence with Nirodbaran. The mispronouncing or mishearing of words in other languages ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 14, 1960 ( Letter to Pavitra from Satprem ) Hyderabad, April 14, 1960 Dear Pavitra, The following passage, taken from the Revue des Deux Mondes of March 1960, was part of a course taught by Dimitri Manowilski in 1931 at the Lenin School of Political Warfare in Moscow: 'Our turn will come in twenty to thirty... Page 363 'It is quite possible that this is their original intention, I am aware of it. But they are wrong if they think it will turn out like that... We shall see!' Love, Signed : Pavitra ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 22, 1960 ( Pavitra shows Mother a photograph of the house in which She lived in Paris, rue du Val de Grâce ) Well, well! The house on Val de Grâce! It looks inhabited, the windows have curtains in them. I lived there—a small house, really very small, with a bedroom upstairs. Here... visions to Madame Theon, and then she explained their meaning to me. So I would narrate the vision and give its explanation. That was readable and interesting, because there was some symbolism. (Pavitra:) What was this 'Chronicle of KI'? It wasn't 'Ki' but 'Chi,' for he was the founder of China!—those things were fantastic! The story was almost childish, but there was a whole world of knowledge... She was a wonderful woman, wonderful. But as for him ... well ... Page 442 It's funny ... I don't know why, but a short while ago this house on Val de Grâce suddenly came to me ... (to Pavitra ) When did this photograph come? Yesterday. Suddenly the house had come into the atmosphere. 'Well, well,' I said to myself; 'someone is thinking about that house.' I entered into your ...
... figure." Mother uses almost the same words. × See in particular Conversations with Pavitra of 20 November 1926. Pavitra complained that "this mechanical part of the mind is carrying me along." And Sri Aurobindo replied, "It is simply an outer functioning and it will be rejected in the course of the procedure... than Page 188 she was physically, but not much more intelligent!). But the other night, she brought me big prunes (they were this big), and I ate a few, and found them very good; then Pavitra came along, looked at those poor prunes and told me, "Oh, you shouldn't eat this, there's mold on it!" I remembered it because it amused me. And I looked, saying ( laughing ), "I don't see any mold ...
... home." The statement has a beautiful brevity. It was Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire) who framed these words. They have the French flavour — the simple blended with the suggestive, a felici-tousness of phrase bringing out a delicate depth of feeling, and it is the feeling of the inmost heart, into which Pavitra, when he meditated, was in the habit of penetrating. From his face one... both hands to catch the fellow within the folds of his dhoti, (laughter) At last the rat ran out, but there was such a commotion that the Mother opened her eyes and looked for an explanation. Then Pavitra, in what he believed was a voice suitable to the solemnity of the Soup Distribution, said in a low rumble: "It is a Bandicoot!" (laughter) The Mother was amazed at first and then amused ...
... perilous form. If tomorrow morning there is no improvement, we can call Philaire (I hope it will be in time). Pavitra is typing a letter which you can take to Philaire and learn from him when he will come over. If you and Philaire can understand each other, it is all right. Otherwise inform Pavitra of the hour and he will go at that time. Accidentally I met Valle in the hospital. He asked me to call... last night. It decreased during the day. He says in the evening's report that he didn't want to stop the vomiting; he has done that only because you wished it. He has reported at 9 o'clock to Pavitra that he has succeeded in entirely stopping vomiting and hiccough. Is it true? He expected to stop the hiccough in half an hour, but has failed. His condition at night will be critical; are you ...
... Page 184 Education and the Aim of Human Life By Pavitra (P. B. Saint-Hilaire) Written in 1961 and revised by the author in 1967, this book offers a succinct analysis of the nexus between education and the aim of human life. Examining how education is linked to the aim of human life prevalent in any age, Pavitra sees the conception of progress, born in the 17 th century's Age... education was meant to serve that end. The modern age faces an evolutionary crisis in the apparent failure of scientific and industrial progress to bring perfection and harmony to all aspects of life. Pavitra shows how "with Sri Aurobindo, the past is luminously linked with the future" and" how this ideal has led the way to the dawn of a new age and the development of a new educational system to help our ...
... Conversations with Sri Aurobindo PAVITRA Editor's Note These conversations were held from December 18, 1925 to November 20, 1926. Pavitra, a French engineer of the Polytechnic School, arrived at Pondicherry on the 17th of December, 1925, having come from a Mongolian lamasery where his spiritual search had driven him, after his having spent four years... brief conversations were noted from memory, most of the time in French, except towards the end. Hence, they do not represent the exact words of the Master, but are as faithful a record as possible. Pavitra was then 31 years old. Friday, December 18, 1925 YOUR going back to France at the moment would be a defeat. You would fall off from the state of consciousness of which you have caught a ...
... European mysticism, Tibetan occultism, etc., and came into touch with Pavitra. Pavitra wrote to him, saying that these things wouldn't go with Yoga. The man broke the contact and turned towards Catholicism. He wrote a book, stealing passages from Pavitra's letters and using them in support of Catholicism. It was this that disgusted Pavitra. My grandfather started by being a Brahmo and ended by writing ...
... countenance conspicuous waste or enervating luxury. All this meant the organisation of a number of services: the Building Service, under Chandulal the engineer; the Atelier (Workshop) under Pavitra; the Garden Service; the Bakery and the Dining Room; the Domestic Service, a sort of 'Home' department, to deal with the growing number of paid servants; the Prosperity, to arrange for the supply... dishes before the meal was served. In the afternoon, she paid visits to the sadhaks' rooms by turns. Sometimes she used to go for drives, and sometimes she took some of the disciples with her. Pavitra drove the Mother's car, with Duraiswami Aiyar by his side at times, and the rest would follow in another car. They would select a secluded spot, spread a cloth on the ground, and sit and relax. ... about the time, Vasudha says: ... once we had palm-fruits .... A local man climbed up a palm-tree and brought down some fruits, clove them with a big knife and brought out the kernels which Pavitra peeled and gave to each one of us. That was our picnic. 15 Sahana Devi also remembers those quite long evening drives, the walks and the relaxed sittings enjoying the scenery around: "How ...
... Pavitra Among the Not So Great An Epilogue A remarkable epilogue to an equally remarkable story of a more remarkable man. In the past (in Ashram) Pavitra-da was often addressed by many here as Ramakrishna. I gather that a portion of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa’s being had incarnated in him. It would seem once possessed by Kali, always possessed by Her... Her. Who could have seen into this past life of Pavitra-da’s? Only one guess — our Lord Sri Aurobindo. My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me. Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human: ...
... classification in 1957, but was not completed until 1973. During this work, Pavitra sent messages to the Mother for me. He was another of my mentors. When I went to his room, as soon as I entered, I would feel that I was in the Mother’s room, so strong was her Force. In his presence I would feel the presence of the Mother. [Pavitra, a Frenchman, whose European name was P.B. Saint-Hilaire, was a highly skilled... feathery leaves to Mother. Mother smiled as she took the flowers and exclaimed, “Oh, this is Lightness!” The girl, with lovely blonde hair flowing over her shoulders, was studying to be a ballet dancer! Pavitra once asked me, when I was enthusiastically trying to persuade him to ask the Mother about a particular significance: “Do you think the Mother gives the name for the flowers, or for us?” At that moment ...
... delivery that I did not particularly like and she insisted that I recite it in the way she was reciting. Three days before the performance I lost my voice. I went to Pavitra but could not speak. I said, “You must choose someone else.” Pavitra went to Mother’s apartment and the Mother said, “Is Jhumur outside?” I went in and Mother said, “Give me the book.” Mother read it once and said, “You listen.” The... come to the “Art House” to make suggestions and changes where they were needed. In about 1960 the Government of India sent a commission to visit our Centre of Education and to observe the Ashram. Pavitra suggested that we put on a performance with music in the theatre in English and in French. He choose a long prayer from Mother’s Prayers and Meditations for me to recite (March 31, 1917) with Srimoy ...
... in which I suddenly heard the continuous sound of our Divine Mother's car-horn. In a hurry I went down to the ground floor and reached the front door. The car was standing in front of my house. Pavitra very respectfully opened the door of the car. The Mother got out and smiled. Closely following her was Chinmayi. From the front portion of the car (i.e., from the driver's side) Amrita got out. I was... said, "No, no, today is her birthday. I want to see her in her own room." So saying she entered the house and started climbing the staircase. We climbed after her in the following order: Chinmayi, Pavitra, Amrita and myself. The Mother stood in front of my room and, looking at me, asked, "Are you staying in this room?" I replied, "Yes, Mother," and at the same time I rushed into my room and came... and delighted to see my few dry tulsi leavs offered at the sacred feet of the Mother change mto fresh green leaves with golden hues and beautiful forms. The clothes that the Mother, Chinmayi, Pavitra and Amnta were wearing, the car in which they had come, their footwear - all were golden. All the people were young, full of health and beauty as I had seen them 25 years earlier. The supreme divine ...
... remained somewhat apart from the daily routine of the sadhaks. They did not really have a chance to understand who she was or what she was preparing for the future … Even at the end of 1925, when Pavitra came, only Amrita and Nolini recognized who the Mother was; the others at most had a formal devotion.’ 33 For some ‘it was unthinkable that a French lady could be an Avatar.’ When a certain... this was what he, Sri Aurobindo, was trying to do. And he said to me: “If you want to try this, then you can stay here.” I threw myself at his feet, and that was that.’ Sri Aurobindo would call him Pavitra, ‘the Pure,’ and he would become the totally dedicated secretary of the Mother and afterwards the Head of the Ashram School. Of his first meeting with the Mother he especially remembered her eyes,... Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me , p. 515. × Sri Aurobindo, Conversations avec Pavitra , introduction. × Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems , SABCL 5 p. 113. ...
... mind: he asks a general question but in his mind it is an altogether particular question; but this—these things one does not discuss in public. ( Mother turns to Pavitra ) Pavitra, you have a question? Page 87 ( Pavitra answers that he hasn't ) Ah, that's a pity. Mother, here it is said that the light of truth is not always at one's disposal... It is always there; but one can't ...
... On Education Six Monologues and a Conclusion by THE MOTHER in collaboration with NOLINI (The Writer) PAVITRA (The Scientist) ANDRÉ (The Industrialist) PRANAB (The Athlete) Letter of the Mother Concerning "The Great Secret" My dear André, I know that you are a... not know or understand. At the same time I am sending you the conclusion of the industrialist's speech as I conceive it, but of course you can make any changes you find necessary. I have asked Pavitra to write the account of the scientist, Nolini is dealing with the man of letters, Pranab has already written what the sportsman will say (in English, but I shall put it into French), I have already... Unknown Man, since I shall be speaking through him. Afterwards we shall still have to decide who the actors will be; Debou will play the Unknown Man, Hriday the sportsman, I am trying to persuade Pavitra to embody the scientist, Manoj will play either the artist or the writer. Naturally, the ideal would be for you to come and speak what you have written—but maybe you will regard that as an unrealisable ...
... For a long time we ate meat; it was even very funny. Pavitra was a strict vegetarian when he came, and at the time, not only were we not vegetarian but Page 129 the chickens were killed in the courtyard (!) and... ( laughing ) Pavitra had the room right next to the kitchen—the chickens used to be killed under his nose! Oh, poor Pavitra! Then it stopped for a very simple reason (not at all ...
... eyes, you know—fully conscious eyes. So sweet! And so happy, as if saying, "At last I'm seeing you!" So here is the book. But the crowd is beyond all imagination. Soon afterwards Pavitra has been filing old letters, and so ... I told you, didn't I, that since the 24th there is a CONSTANT insistence, every minute, to give full support to the Harmony and not to allow disorder, disharmony... mental points of view. Like that, like someone pounding something, since the 24th (I told you the other day about the Force that came; it's been like that since then). And yesterday or the day before, Pavitra, while sorting out those letters, came across something I had written to someone in English: "Yes, the good-will hidden in all things reveals itself everywhere to that one who carries goodwill... in his consciousness. "This is a constructive way of feeling leading straight to the future." I found this very interesting (it was written years ago, in any case more than a year ago, and Pavitra told me he hadn't even found it in a letter: it was there among the files). And it was as if to tell me, "See, you were already speaking like this before." Because the "goodwill" is the Harmony (p ...
... in the minds of both the Indians and the Iranians about the identity of the scriptural plant. What clinches the unearthliness of Soma is the manner in which the supposed "sieve" purifying it — pavitra, as the Rigveda (e.g. 1.28,9) terms it — is spoken of. We have to take into account two points about it. First, its "material." No doubt, it is said to be made of a ram's or sheep's wool (IX... nature of Soma that it is "called sometimes amrta, the Greek ambrosia, as if it were itself the substance of immortality". 7 And this nature stands out in Rigveda IX.83,2, where the true sense of pavitra emerges beyond a doubt. In the course of commenting on that hymn, Sri Aurobindo writes: "This strong and fiery wine has to be purified and the strainer for its purifying has been spread out wide to... hymns speak of the luminous thunders of this stone as they speak of the light and sound of Indra's weapon. Once pressed out as the delight of existence Soma has to be purified through a strainer (pavitra) and through the strainer he streams in his purity into the wine bowl (camu) in which he is brought to the sacrifice, or he is kept in jars (kalasa) for Indra's drinking. Or, sometimes, the symbol ...
... right to heal unless you're under oath!... Soon afterwards It's going on.... Have you seen a monk? Well, I met him in the street, but I didn't speak to him. He is going to see Pavitra this morning, and F. has seen him twice. He has come here while travelling around India, and he seems to like the place very much. Here is his face ( Mother shows a photo ). Is this whom you met?.... eyes ... that can't look straight at you. That's right. A Christian atmosphere of sin, basically. That's why I wanted you to see him, because naturally, F.'s impression is very good, and Pavitra, when he read the letter, was full of exclamations. As for me, I was like that ( withdrawn gesture ), on my guard. Why does he want to come?... Naturally, it might simply mean that he is very happy... but from the standpoint of life, because he must have been Catholic since his childhood, but he desired to leave life and become a monk), that's recent. But it's a strange monastery, because Pavitra has had quite a sustained correspondence with an abbot who was in that monastery (he has a file this thick!), then it stopped abruptly, I don't know why. I don't feel this man is an intellectual ...
... May 6, 1967 I made a speech to P. and A. (I didn't make a speech, but they spoke to me about something and I started speaking), and Pavitra tried to note it down. He hasn't read it to me, I don't know what he wrote; you can read it to me if you like. But wait.... On the morning of the 4th, when I got up (it was 4:30), suddenly it was... emerge into the Light, whatever the people or difficulties around me." It knows that, it's under no illusions. But still, there is a little friction. ( silence ) Well, read me this notation by Pavitra, I'd be curious to know how it is. "About physical suffering, Mother says: "There are three different layers or levels of consciousness that are the origin of that suffering. They are as if... I don't want the story of S. to be published; I don't want to seem to be boasting of having saved his life, you understand! It might have quite unfortunate consequences for himself.... I only told Pavitra because I was still under the impact of the experience, I had just seen the man: when he walked in I hardly recognized him! That is, he struck me as a thoroughly new man. And, interestingly, he felt ...
... Wodehouse hasn't that! Sri Aurobindo: It is both. You don't know the story of Pavitra and Khitish and the bother? Pavitra who had just come here [to the Ashram] with a rather French pronunciation of English said to K "I am a 'brawther' to you all" and Khitish, [understanding 'bother',] cried out "Oh, no, no!" Pavitra insisted but Khitish still cried out with pain and politeness in his voice "Oh, ...
... with Sri Aurobindo October 1936 I don't know if you want a separate report from me of D.L., apart from what I sent you through Pavitra. R surely writes everything and Pavitra tells you all. I have said that R doesn't agree with Valle's diagnosis and writes in today's report that it is "dyspeptic congestion of the colon"!! About Chlorodyne, Dr. Becharlal... is a letter from R, but it gives only the general condition during the day (hyper-pyrexin and a crisis due to tympanitis), says that in spite of that there is some amelioration, I understand from Pavitra that Valle found some amelioration in the condition of the heart in the evening. As to the diagnosis. Valle, you say assigns a gynaecological cause for the illness, so far that agrees with what ...
... understand the significance of this achievement. Sri 29 Nhod-da read out what Mother had said about Pavitra-da on 25 May 1969. 30The Mother, Agenda, 13:186-187. Page 13 Krishna says to Arjuna, "You will dwell in me." That tells us what a great sadhak pavitra-da was. So ladies and gentlemen, let's not pass comments on the sadhaks here. If one knows how to look, even... there outside, one of you, one among you people moving about. At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose, he comes and lodges here. A remarkable story. A great and very difficult thing Pavitra has done. 30 I was asked for my opinion and I declared his body dead. M. Andre went and told the Mother, and She said that the body should be taken for cremation at 4 p.m. instead of 10 ...
... bloomed in the pots on the terrace. It was still very hot in the afternoon and the sun was very strong. As soon as the Mother arrived in the passage through Pavitra-da’s room She cried out loud: “Don’t pluck them!” Nolini-da, Amrita-da, Pavitra-da and the others who were present there were taken aback on hearing the Mother’s voice. She said: “These roses came and complained to me that they should... happen. On the first day of every month the Mother gave with Her own hands all the inmates of the Ashram their essential requirements for the month. Around two o’clock the Mother would go through Pavitra-da’s room, cross the terrace and go to the southern room of this block and take Her seat. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had lived in this block at one time. Everyone came in a line and took from the ...
... turn to the right on the verandah, followed by Pranab, to take her seat in the car. Pavitra would open the door of the car for her and Pranab would take his seat in the front near Pavitra. By the time she would enter the car the people gathered there would surge on the verandah towards the car and the time taken by Pavitra to take the driver's seat and start the car would be utilised by the people there ...
... One day, the Mother was giving an interview to someone in the Playground. I noticed that Pavitra-da was standing beside the interview-room with another gentleman, waiting for the Mother. She ended her interview rather quickly that day, and as She was about to come out of the room, She saw Pavitra-da standing there waiting for Her, and went back in to speak with them. I had wanted to ask the... the Mother a question too, as I was reading Dhammapada, a book the Mother had given me recently and in which I was quite immersed. After a few minutes, the Mother came out with Pavitra-da and that gentleman. I was standing on the Mother's path. As soon as She came close to me, I said, "Mother, I have a question for you." "Yes, tell Page 197 me," the Mother replied. "How can one quieten ...
... lamaseries where he had gone in search of the Truth, after leaving everything. He would become one of the most efficient, clearest (and rare) assistants in this laboratory. Sri Aurobindo called him Pavitra, “the Pure one.” 100 He was also an eminent chemist, and it seems that in 1923, in the laboratories of Japan, where he had arrived just after Mother's departure, he discovered an astonishing way... × Lettres a Andre, 8.28.1930 × Conversations avec Pavitra, 10.31.1926 × Nirodbaran, Twelve years with Sri Aurobindo, p. 123 ... × On Himself, 26:152 × See Conversations with Pavitra. × "I appeal for cessation of hostilities,” He wrote in his letter of July 2, 1940, “because war ...
... Mother exclaimed seeing the picture Pavitra was holding out to her. In those days Mother gave interviews to Satprem in the privacy of Pavitra's office. As a rule, Pavitra did not remain there during the interviews, except when he had something specific to talk over with her. That day, as soon as Mother was settled in her chair and all ready for Satprem's questions, Pavitra —as the Ashram's General Secretary ...
... finished and that of the Supermind is to come, and that one doesn't need to go through the same experiences of the Overmind, because that's already done. What is he saying? Pavitra, do you understand what he is saying? (Pavitra) Mother, you have said several times that the reign of the Overmind is finished and now it is the reign of the Supermind. Yes, in a way, yes. Therefore it is not necessary ...
... Mother, how did he know at the end that he had not found the truth if he had not been open... What! How did he...? (Pavitra) How did he know that he had not found the truth... if he had not been open to something higher? But who knew it, my man or the other... (Pavitra) The moment he is conscious that there is something which he has not found, it means that he was open to something else ...
... 13 March 1957 This evening, once again, no reading. But someone has asked me a question on something I have written—Pavitra, do you have it? Read it. (Pavitra reads) "Our best friend is he who loves us in our best part, and yet does not ask us to be different from what we are." Words of the Mother, CWM, Vol. 14, p. 288 I am ...
... My eye won't allow me to read today. 1 But I have been asked a question on what I read to you last week. I am going to reply to it this evening. Pavitra, will you read, please? (Pavitra reads) What does this paragraph mean?: "Freedom is the law of being in its illimitable unity, secret master of all Nature: servitude is the law of love in the being voluntarily ...
... out the rest of my days in the Ashram. But everything in me rebels at this idea. The idea of winding up as General Secretary of the Ashram, like Pavitra, makes my skin crawl. It is absurd, and I apologize for speaking this way, Mother, for I admire Pavitra—but I can't help it, I can't do it, I do not want to end up like that. Page 100 For more than a year now, I have been hypnotized by the ...
... Office, Pondicherry”. Now I find that Pavitra has given his address at the British Post Office as “The General Secretary, the Arya Office, Pondicherry”. Perhaps it would be better to have only one official with only one address, either the Manager or the General Secretary of either the Arya Office or the Arya Establishment. What is this story again! Can Pavitra do the work that we need at the Post ...
... to play tennis at 4 p.m. She would come down the staircase and look at us and smile. Her smile was very important to us. She would get into her Humber car with Pavitra driving. I would run as fast as I could to the tennis grounds with Pavitra driving slowly alongside so that I could see Mother arriving and getting out of the car, then we would all sit and watch her play tennis. When did you become ...
... in Pondicherry at that time and no radio broadcasting. Udar owned a radio set with sophisticated aerials and other equipment so he was able to tune into the BBC in order to receive news of the war. Pavitra (the Frenchman whose European name was P.B. Saint-Hilaire) and Pavita (an Englishwoman) used to come to Udar’s house every night at 9:30 to take down the news in shorthand and type and prepare it to... with that state. She named it “Golconde”, the French form of Golconda. after the famous fort and diamond mines in Hyderabad. Antonin Raymond, a well-known Czechoslovakian architect and friend of Pavitra, came to the Ashram for a visit and eventually took on the project. Working with him on the Golconde project were the Japanese-American architect, George Nakashima and another Czechoslovakian architect ...
... (8,89,8) - "Down from the heavens the Falcon brought thee hitherward" (9,86,4). 359 The esoteric significance of the plant is flashed out even when the nature of the "sieve" purifying it - pavitra, as the 357. Altindisches Leben (Berlin, 1879), p. 29. 358. Vedische Mythologie, I (Breslau, 1891), p. 65. 359.Griffith, op. cit., p. 462, col. 1; p. 508, col. 2. Page 344... tantavo vyasthiran], happily extended to receive and turn into divine ecstasy all possible contact of universal existence. Therefore it is divaspade, in the seat of Heaven, that the Soma-strainer [pavitra] is 360. The Secret of the Veda, p. 541, fn. 2. 361.Griffith, op. cit., p. 33, col. 1; p. 34, col. 2. 362. The Secret of the Veda, p. 249. Page 345 spread out ...
... seen me and, it appears, she told Sri Aurobindo: “This boy will help me in my work; he will be very useful.” That was long before I took up work with her. I may add that she said something similar of Pavitra 6 . Seeing him she told Sri Aurobindo: “He will be very useful; he will do all my foreign correspondence.” And that is exactly what happened. Now regarding the rooms on the ground floor of this... Kanailal Ganguly settled here in July 1923. See his “As I Remember” in Breath of Grace , pp.33-41. × Pavitra (Pure), name given by Sri Aurobindo to Phillipe Barbier St. Hilaire who settled here in 1925. He fought in the First War in the French artillery, then lived in Japan and Mongolia among Buddhist monks ...
... gone to Sri Aurobindo and united with him,’ said the Mother. ‘His psychic is with me, and he is very happy and in peace. His vital is still helping those who seek his help.’ 15 Amrita and Pavitra left in 1969. About the latter’s passing we find the following statement by the Mother: ‘It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was in the... One recalls the living and dead mingling. ‘At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose, he comes and lodges here [in the Mother]. A remarkable story. A great and very difficult thing Pavitra has done.’ 16 What is also worthwhile mentioning is what the Mother has repeated several times since about 1967: that many newborn children were special, exceptional. ‘The children who are ...
... accompanied to Japan in 1923 to help in the rebuilding of Tokyo after the disastrous earthquake which destroyed most of the city. That was where he met and befriended Philippe Saint-Hilaire, later called Pavitra. In 1938, the year he was invited to design the plans for Golconde, Raymond had built up a successful firm of architects, two of whom would assist him in building Golconde. The one was František Sammer... he actually had been a banker — did his job with a consciousness impossible to obtain in a world where a man listens to the sound of the 5 o’clock whistle. There were engineers among the disciples [Pavitra, Chandulal and Udar]: everyone lent a hand. ‘Under the invisible guidance of the leaders of the Ashram, whose presence was always felt, to whom daily all was reported, whose concern was the spiritual ...
... going faster in their yoga. This is not like being a child - about which attitude I wrote to you in my first letter. Pavitra is a wonderful example of this most mature attitude of a real child. I understood this problem of an infantile - not right- attitude when I asked Pavitra if I could offer Mother for Christmas the Polish Madonna; he kindly smiled and said he will help me to hand it over to Mother ...
... obtained and the result hoped for. But I tell you this … You are all so close, you bathe in the atmosphere, but who was aware of anything? You continued to live your life as usual, didn’t you? …’ Then Pavitra said: ‘I think it was in 1946, Mother, for you told us so many things at that time.’ – ‘Correct,’ said the Mother. ‘[The Ananda] came down because there was a possibility, because things had come... cross from the State of Madras into the French territory. Due to some snag in obtaining the papers, André and his companion were delayed. ‘The sun was setting when we arrived at the Ashram. There Pavitra told me that Mother was expecting me at Golconde, in the room where I was to stay for a few days. It was quite dark when I arrived at Golconde. I hastily climbed two stories and then, in the dim light ...
... and was very pleased with it. Then she went into a trance for about ten minutes. When she awoke the Mother related her experience to me: Many, many years ago I discussed the Integral Yoga with Pavitra—[Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire] while walking in Pondicherry Botanical Gardens. I was talking to him about the refinement in material life—its sensations and movements. When we were walking in a certain... ternatea] . The flower the Mother had mentioned was Gliricidia Sepium . She gave this meaning to the flower: Refinement of Habits. Ordered, neat and regular in their organised action. Pavitra—P.B.St.Hilaire—was given the name by Sri Aurobindo. Often he was with the Mother—driving her car, accompanying her wherever she went. He was also the Director of the Sri Aurobindo Centre of Education ...
... much to return to Pondicherry for the February Darshan and once again begin working for you. Today I am sending a second lot to Pavitra and tomorrow I will start on the Aphorisms, for I do not want to make you wait any longer. I will send a third and final lot to Pavitra by the end of the month, in time for printing. I am very touched, sweet Mother, by your attention and the money you are sending me ...
... together... I don't know for how long because time there isn't the same. Then I had to return here—that is, to my home in India, to Sri Aurobindo's home: I had to return to Sri Aurobindo's home. Pavitra Page 118 was also working there and he didn't want to let me leave; when he saw me going he came and tried to stop me. You, on the contrary, were helping. 'Shall I take anything with me... This enigmatic experience was actually very important, as Mother will later explain (on March 17 ): Mother was leaving behind the subjection to mental functioning, symbolized by this place where Pavitra was working. × Salmon-colored hibiscus. ...
... I think, or vital forces (but to me those things are without force or power), and a small vital entity showed me the memory of an earthquake: around 1922 or '23, we had an earthquake; I was with Pavitra and Page 403 we stood talking (we were going out, it was in the afternoon), when suddenly, hop! we jumped out of our skin, both of us. 3 We knew what it was because we had gotten used... village of Koyna. × This was probably in 1934 (when an earthquake devastated the state of Bihar), for Pavitra came to Pondicherry only at the end of 1925. ...
... the Pope, next to the cardinals. But instead of the sedia gestatoria [the chair in which the Pope is carried], there is a huge elephant carrying someone. Who is this someone? Sweet Mother? No, it's Pavitra.... Not at all, it's Satprem! No, it's the School's director.... The more I try to fix my attention on him, the more his face changes, as in a kaleidoscope. In reality, I have difficulty Page... Bernini's Baldaquin, inside St. Peter's Basilica, and finally comes up to the Pope's throne, in which he sits down.... ( Mother laughs ) "On his head sits the same person as before: Sweet Mother? Pavitra? Satprem? A teacher? I do not know. I cannot make out the person's body, only his changing face.... All of a sudden, the multitude, the huge crowd there receives a tremendous vibration: everything ...
... and they give news of cures. But I was referring to the very small circle here.... For Pavitra, it was a Page 115 miracle even according to a doctor, though he's not a believer; 3 it was a miracle, but... it's not total, that is to say, it's still there with the possibility of resuming. And yet Pavitra has taken the best attitude. It's like that, you see, it's almost wonderful, and ...
... I didn't give it any more thought. For three days I didn't think about it again. It seemed to me to be some extravagance or other. Yesterday evening, I decided I would read those papers. I asked Pavitra to read them to me. The man describes his experiences—the first description is just what happened to me! So I had the experience he had when he took the medicine! He describes it (I couldn't... the medicine, naturally it won't happen again"—but that's not true! It can give the being the habit of disorder, the habit of imbalance. Page 103 There. It was yesterday evening that Pavitra read me the complete description of the experience I had had ... without knowing what it was. I found that very amusing! I haven't read the whole thing, only half of it, I am going to read the other ...
... only 365 days in a year, and we are... including the visitors who come specially for their birthdays, nearly 1,300 people. Most people I don't see, but some I have to: people like Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Champaklal, 2 I can't but give them a moment. Then there are people who come from Africa, from Europe, and who ask to see me before leaving, so... So I am listening to you now. ( Satprem... twenty every day, not to mention all the decisions I must make instantly and write on the spot. This morning I wrote four "urgent" notes like that when Nolini was here, and you saw how it was with Pavitra. And I can't say it isn't important—it is important, in that all those people depend on me. I can't make them overnight capable of receiving fully and clearly, without any external expression, all ...
... career, including, of course, a couple of falls. Several amusing occurrences too I could record. I'll cite one. I used to receive appeals for various kinds of things from people. Our Pavitra once sent me an appeal. He was not quite a master of English at that time. He sent me the note: "I want four blocks to understand my table." (laughter) I supplied to him what he required, with a... a reply-note: "Here are the needed blocks. Fortunately they are not blockheads: otherwise your table would never Page 42 have been understood." (laughter) Later Pavitra told me he realised the joke and greatly enjoyed it. Now, what else can the Mother make of one? A big shock came to me when I learnt that Mother India, of which I had been appointed Editor, ...
... Horoscope Excellent 1933-03-14 Mother told me: “Champaklal, your horoscope is very, very good. It is one of the best.” Pointing at Pavitra who was present, she said: “Ask him. I am not telling a lie; ask, ask.” But I did not. It was Pavitra who had seen my horoscope. He had a good knowledge of astrology. Then Mother looked quietly at me and said: “Excellent, Champaklal, it is excellent ...
... right.” C: “Is it not too strong?” Sri Aurobindo: “It is all right. Why do you ask?” C: “I have just learnt from Pavitra that this concentrate In prepared is very strong. Not knowing it I have been putting 20 drops of it in your mouth-wash as I used to do before. But Pavitra says that 6 or 7 drops are sufficient now.” Sri Aurobindo: “Yes, it may be too strong. Because you see day while gargling ...
... his own love or yearning for years and years—and he does it. March 17, 1936 J has been asked to use mustard oil, cocoanut oil or castor oil for her eczema. Which one should she use? Pavitra must be asked what oil he is using and that can be used—for he has found it effective. Mother thought it might be cocoanut oil, but she is not sure. March 18, 1936 Freed once more from... guard [7.3.36), I have found Mulshankar who is very willing to do it for an hour or two, though lame. Yes. Mulshankar has written and we have answered that he can do this work. For J's eczema, Pavitra put three essential factors: 1) Sunbath after oiling. 2) Cold bath immediately after sunbath. [Sri Aurobindo underlined "oiling" and "immediately".] Mother thought he did it after sunbath ...
... Aurobindo gave him a new name, 'Pavitra'. Subsequently he served the Mother as her secretary for foreign correspondence etc. and also played a leading role when the International Centre of Education was established at the Ashram. By 1926, the number of inmates had increased to 25; they came mostly from Bengal, Gujarat and the South, whilst two, Datta and Pavitra, came from countries beyond the shores ...
... epics in German and Finnish (Nibelungenlied, Kalevala)— Our vaccination list is ready. Will send a duplicate to Mother tomorrow, before submitting it to the hospital. You will send a copy to Pavitra, for he will have to write to Valle as it was to him that their original letter came. S has been complaining of her extreme weakness, pains etc. which are so great that she is on her way to death—her... way, can you not send one or two sonnets already written, of yours? Impossible at present. May 26, 1937 Rajlakshmi has eczema, can i try the medicine Mother gave for that servant? Pavitra has some medicine for eczema, you might ask him for it. Mother was thinking to keep the other medicine for some time in case there should be any recurrence of the ulcer of Krishnaswami. May 27 ...
... have to prepare something [for] A.P.H. 89 otherwise the house will collapse, as they have been [waiting] long without a fresh book. There [are] also translations into French [for journals] which Pavitra is [wanting] me to see, etc. etc. [There] are letters from outside some [of] them very important which are waiting months without [an] answer. If I have to [write] an explanation of 2 poems (her poems... poetry—and modem dreams are extravagant. The images may be all right but they get entangled and intertwisted or else on the contrary one jumps from one to another that seems unconnected. Please ask Pavitra to send me the French medical journal. It is with me. January 26, 1937 May I ask what is the nature of Mother's ailment? Occult, with a physical effect in the eye. [About my ...
... complain about the lack of some essential instruments. Since a general practitioner has to be ready for all "blessed conditions" and cure them, many apparatus are necessary... You can consult Pavitra. Mother has already spoken to him about ordering instruments from France—here they are too costly, many of them. April 9, 1935 About patient Z, confidentially, I hear she bothers herself... 1935 You have heard that M in the Smithy has recurrence of his eye-disease; more virulent this time. He has to stop his work, but he will die, he says, without it. Why this recurrence? Pavitra says he saw him all the time touching his eye with his dirty hands and expostulated with, but to no result. what is to be done with all these superrational men? He was doing the same thing with his ...
... This book is a study of the educational ideal of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and of the educational method being developed at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Its author, Pavitra, was the first director of the Centre of Education. In the first section of the book he affirms the need of an "integral" education - one aimed at developing all the faculties of the human being, including... education. In the second section he explains the new system being attempted at the Centre of Education. In the third he summarises the educational theory and method of the Centre of Education. Pavitra (so named by Sri Aurobindo) was one of the early disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Born Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire in Paris in 1894, he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique with a degree ...
... Mother used to take me out for drives. The days we went out were mostly on Prosperity days or Darshan Days and it was in the evening. Pavitra-da drove the car. We used to go quite far. Once we visited the temple Page 46 in Mailam. Mother, Pavitra-da and I went up the steep steps to the top of the hill. We heard of the strange temple-tradition of electing the murderer of the ...
... 534; talk with Devadas Gandhi, 534; first companions and disciples, 535-6; Purani's coming, 536, 537; Revolution or Yoga, 536; "India will be free", 537; change in complexion, 537; coming of Dilip, Pavitra, 538-9; black magic and action taken against it, 540; differences with Chandernagore group, 540; collective meditation, 540; shift to Rue de la Marine, 540, "Master and Lord of Yoga", 541; birthday... Paradise Lost, 614, 664 Parnell, Charles Stewart, 42-3,191,281,328 Partition of Bengal, 201, 204ff, 282, 294 Patkar. R.N.,51,52,53,195 Patwardhan, Annasaheb, 276 Pavitra (P. B. de St. Hilaire), 539ff, 576 Pearson, N., 516fn Perse, St. John, 78 Perseus the Deliverer, 68,119,120,139,186, 242, 327, 642, 646; conflict in the play both individual ...
... Review was a monthly. In it Theon expounded his philosophy, but the greater part was contributed by Madame Theon. "It was dictated in English by Théon's wife while she was in trance," said Mother to Pavitra and Satprem one day in 1960. In those days she met Satprem in Pavitra's office on the first floor. "And there was a woman there, she too English, who claimed to know French like a French- Page... readable and Page 24 interesting." These visions appeared in The Cosmic Review from 1906 to 1908, under the title, 'A vision.' There were other articles also by her, but unsigned. Pavitra asked Mother, "What was this Chronicle of Ki ?'' "Not Ki, but CHI, because he was the founder of China!" Mother revealed. "Those things were fantastic! The story was almost childish ...
... the sad occasion of the passing of Pavitra on 16 May 1969, and when asked about it the Mother recalled how, on the night before the end came, she felt him coming out of himself and gathering and pouring himself into her; this he did consciously and deliberately and ceaselessly for hours, and it ended at about one in the morning. And she added that what Pavitra had done - this willed transference ...
... Devi and Dilip Kumar Roy from Bengal, Miss Maitland from the U.K. and others. Among the old-timers, Nolini was Secretary of the Ashram, silent and efficient as ever, and Amrita was its manager. Pavitra was in charge of the Workshop. The sadhaks old and new had now every opportunity to see the Mother in her myriad manifestations, and in particular as patient persevering perfectionist Mahasaraswati... to express her views on a wide variety of questions. A conversation session in English began to be held on Sundays. The meeting place was Dilip's house, and among those who attended were Nolini, Pavitra, Vaun and Janet McPheeters (Janet had been given the name "Shantimayi" by Sri Aurobindo), Sahana Devi, Duraiswami Aiyar, Miss Maitland, Kapali Sastry and of course Dilip. The procedure at these ...
... through artificial chemical means. Twice or thrice a day in her snowlike robe and with a scarf covering her head, the Mother visited Sri Aurobindo's room, sometimes accompanied by Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra and others, and silently communed with Sri Aurobindo. "Her face calm and grave, yet softened with a maternal sweetness, she looked", says Nirodbaran, "like Maheshwari of transcendent glory." 21 ... and Champaklal, it is reported, covered Sri Aurobindo's face with a white cloth chosen by the Mother. Then Udar used a rubber seal between the lid and the box in order to make it airtight and he, Pavitra and Purani screwed the lid down. 25 Then Nolini, followed by the others in the room, offered pranam to the Mother, signifying their complete surrender to her, since she and Sri Aurobindo had a single ...
... What enthusiasm and delight there was in everything the Mother did! And these would infect everybody around! Before going to their football match the boys assembled in front of Pavitra-da’s workshop. Now is Pavitra-da’s office where our Chum works. Chum looks after the replies to all the letters that come from abroad. Mother would call Chum sweetly ‘Choom’. The Mother used to come down to bless ...
... I had put on a very ordinary frock for the dance and for my singing I only had my voice with no accompanying instrument. Exactly at 9.15, the Mother appeared at the balcony. Mother was flanked by Pavitra-da on Her right and Nolini-da on Her left. On seeing the Mother, we at once bowed down to Her with folded hands. The Mother signalled to me to begin. I started with my songs. I do not remember now... Balcony to see a little girl dance in spite of her extremely busy schedule must have been Page 13 a most extraordinary event in the Ashram's history! Nobody except Nolini-da and Pavitra-da came to know about it. As a child, I could not quite fathom the meaning of such an unusual event. But today, as I sit and write about this, I realise its profound significance. The experience of ...
... went to Her in the morning and then in the afternoon. After giving the Balcony Darshan, She would come inside. That was another opportunity for Her darshan. Sri Ma told us many stories. It was mostly Pavitra-da who was present during this time. Once She was brushing her hair whilst talking with us. She said, "I am losing all my hair". She then put the loose strands of her hair in my hand. When I threw... Ravindra. The Mother plays the organ In between I went to Mother in the afternoon as well. Sometimes She would give me sweets and sometimes flowers. Tara, Gauri, Parul, Rababala, Mrityunjoy da, Pavitra-da would also be there. Mother would take French classes for them where She Herself was the teacher. She would give dictation and then check the notebooks. I too would take part too although I had ...
... displeased, to say the least. But the Mother later said it was alright, so that appeased him. Once even Pavitra-da was at the receiving end. He wanted to get some work done — and he did not bring the Mother’s chit. “No” was the answer, until the Mother wrote that henceforth he could do Pavitra-da’s work when he asked for it. There was once a servant-strike at Padmasini-amma’s, some trouble was ...
... a mystery to me, though it is clear that it is through Baba that I came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. From the beginning of my contact with the Mother, I began to correspond with her through Pavitra, a Frenchman whom the Mother was later to describe as a yogi of extraordinary spiritual accomplishments. In mid-1968, I wrote to the Mother saying, “I feel your love and your presence, but I do not... the Government of India, that my visa was being cancelled and I would have to leave India. I wrote to the Mother explaining the situation and asking if the Ashram could provide a guarantee. Through Pavitra, she answered that as I am not an Ashramite, the Ashram could not provide such a guarantee. But she added an assurance, “Have trust that in the end, everything will work out for the good of your soul ...
... Mother had ordered some fine carpentry tools from France. Later Pavitra also joined in my carpentry work. We made a table from these dealwood planks for ironing clothes. At that time there was no table for this purpose. Mother used to come and watch us working on the table and when it was ready she expressed great happiness. After this Pavitra took up some other work and did not join me any more in my carpentry ...
... The Mother 16 May 1969 ( The French disciple Pavitra, Phillipe Barbier Saint Hilaire, passed away on 16 May 1969. What follows in Gautam’s report of what the Mother said to him on the same day. ) Mother to Gautam (at about 10 o’clock in the morning) He [Pavitra] came to me at night. He did something I wasn’t expecting. I didn’t know he was capable of ...
... feeding them all admitted of no haphazard solution …’ ‘All this meant the organization of a number of services: the Building Service, under Chandulal the engineer; the Atelier (Workshop) under Pavitra; the Garden Service; the Bakery and the Dining Room; the Domestic Service, a sort of ‘Home Department,’ to deal with the growing number of paid servants; ‘Prosperity,’ to arrange for the supply of... Antonin Raymond, a Czech and student of Frank Lloyd Wright, who had accompanied his teacher to Japan in 1923 to help rebuild Tokyo after a disastrous earthquake. There he had become acquainted with Pavitra, then still Philippe Saint-Hilaire, who now recommended him to the Mother. The architects assisting him were František Sammer, also a Czech, and George Nakashima, an American Japanese. The Ashram engineer ...
... sorts of ideas. Sri Aurobindo was polite — but I have made it a point not to be polite. I am not polite at all. The other day Pavitra brought me somebody's idea about Sri Aurobindo's passing. Somebody said Sri Aurobindo had died because of this or that. I told Pavitra: 'Let him think anything — I simply don't care. The truth will remain what it is.'" I raised the question: "Take the Epilogue ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future The Mother's Statement on how Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St. Hilaire) Passed Away on May 16, 1969* It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was the night before the day he passed away. The time was 9 o'clock. I felt he was withdrawing, withdrawing in an extraordinary... there outside, one of you, one among you people moving about. At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose he comes and lodges here. A remark-able story. A great and very difficult thing Pavitra has done. 25-5-1969 * Mother India, May 1974. Page 170 ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes To Pavitra (Philippe Barbier Saint Hilaire) Pavitra, The account which seems to have been given to Lizelle Reymond and recorded by her on pages 318-319 of her book 1 is, I am compelled to say, fiction and romance with no foundation in actual facts. I spent ...
... passages of Reymond's manuscript dealing with Sri Aurobindo were read out to him, and on 13 September of that year he dictated a reply in the form of a letter to his disciple Pavitra (P. B. Saint Hilaire). The letter to Pavitra was first published in Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother in 1953. (6) Notes on Shri Aurobindo , by Gabriel E. Monod-Herzen. A scientist and professor, Mo ...
... has gone to Sri Aurobindo and united with him. His psychic is with me, and he is very happy and in peace. His vital is still helping those who seek his help. 5 March 1966 ( About Pavitra [Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire], a disciple who passed away on 16 May 1969 ) It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was the night before... there outside, one of you, one among you people moving about. At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose he comes and lodges here. A remarkable story. A great and very difficult thing Pavitra has done. 1 25 May 1969 It is not my intention to oblige you to wear mill-cloth if you do not want to. All I said was that I have only mill-cloth to give. When one becomes free ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1962 July 4, 1962 The other day, Pavitra said to me in passing, "Modern science would neither follow nor believe us." According to him, scientists acknowledge only "essential hypotheses," and not having the experience, would take our science for a set of "non-essential" hypotheses. I didn't argue, or else... don't make hypotheses, we speak of things we know and have experienced. For several hours afterwards I had a vision of this state of mind and found absolutely no need to make hypotheses (you see, Pavitra was speaking of "hypothesizing" the existence of different states of being). It's just as I told you: I have passed that stage; I don't need inner dimensions any more. 1 And observing this materialistic ...
... Mother, this is a problem.... Often when you tell me things of such importance I feel I benefit from them quite egoistically—could they be shown to Pavitra now and then? Do you want them to be kept absolutely confidential, or may I show them to Pavitra occasionally? It depends.... You can tell Sujata whatever you like. I have never said anything. I never say a word. You can tell her anything ...
... very funny! It took a moment to see that vainquons is spelled q-u-o-n-s. And I wasn't sure! I meant to ask Pavitra for a dictionary which gives verb conjugations, for then if I'm stuck on something while writing, I can look it up. The other day I wrote something—it was a letter I gave Pavitra to read. 'I think there's a spelling mistake,' he said. 'It's quite possible,' I answered, 'I make plenty ...
... minute! Not for one minute did I PHYSICALLY lose consciousness—and behind it all, witnessing everything, was this experience. Page 75 ( Pavitra enters the room to ask Mother an "urgent" question ) I can't hear, I am somewhere else. ( Pavitra leaves ) That's how it is: I wasn't here, yet all the same, physically—PHYSICALLY—I saw something passing by. My eyes were closed, weren't they ...
... first darshan Abhay told the Mother, "I like you. Will you keep me?" The Mother readily agreed and asked him to meet Pavitra and decide upon his work with him. Initially his work was to keep the workshop clean and to wash the cars. This mini workshop was below the living room of Pavitra and adjacent to the existing garage. Abhay did smilingly all these tasks. In course of time the Ashram expanded with ...
... is difficult. But what I say is hard for people to understand, I find.... I gave that text from the Agenda to A.—he didn't say anything. Which shows that he didn't understand anything. As for Pavitra, he clearly didn't understand anything. To them it's platitudes, mon petit! They take it just on the surface. But when Sujata reads it, she understands! Yet she didn't listen to you. But... materialist," 1 my experience lasted for two days, for hours on end. So there were all the arguments and counterarguments. It was extremely interesting. But I didn't say what the arguments were. So Pavitra told me, "It lacks life." But I find it full! The whole essence is there. But it isn't "explained." But it doesn't need to be explained! It would be very good if there were no need ...
... central square very elongated. The one done here is more correct: Pavitra made all the sides equal. But the one for the Cosmic Review was elongated, with the lotus in the center. It's the same [as the one for the Cosmic Review ], only elongated so that the two triangles meet and form a square. I am keeping this to show Pavitra, because that's what I had first tried to make. But obviously the ...
... good." ( Mother laughs ) As for me, I have nothing to say.... It's this poor body being educated. It's charming! (Nolini) So we'll publish it, won't we? (Satprem) We could also ask Pavitra? Pavitra will say, "As Mother says"!.. I, for one, find it very useful. Those who will misunderstand will misunderstand anyhow. Oh, that, they already misunderstand! ( Nolini leaves ) ...
... the FRENCH! Your book has had an enormous action, enormous. It's still having it. I remember that even here, when Pavitra read it, he told me (he was quite enthusiastic), he said to me, "Oh, he has made me understand something I hadn't understood!" ( Mother laughs ) Pavitra, one of the old disciples who lived with Sri Aurobindo! No, in France, things got off to a wrong start because of J.H ...
... A few days ago (two or three), Pavitra got a letter from France, from someone who wrote ( Mother laughs ) that according to a few French people who had visited the Ashram, morals have become quite "lax" at the Ashram and everything is in a pitiful state.... So then, this person sends his "wishes" for "the Ashram's morals to be raised again...." Pavitra asked me, "Should we reply?" At the time ...
... is that not the surest way to help humanity?" I always wonder when he wrote that.... It seems it was at the beginning. He was still... ( gesture between two worlds ). He said to Pavitra somewhere that he had changed his conception of the universe four times. 1 Have you also changed since? Yes, and he has changed. You mean that "up there," he has changed too? (... a lot of good! Very well, then... ( Mother plunges in again ) Page 220 × See Conversations with Pavitra of 11 January 1926: "In spiritual life, one should always be ready to reject every system and every construction. Any one form is helpful, then becomes harmful. In my spiritual life, since the age ...
... time put down any insurgence of the native people, which is always likely? PUBANI: No, no. It must be at least half a million. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO: So Bonvain has declared himself? And Pavitra has to take up mobilisation under the order of the Foreign Minister! PURANI: Who is the Foreign Minister? SRI AUROBINDO: That is what I would like to ask. PURANI: It can't be the Minister... Government. SRI AUROBINDO: No, Bonvain has allied himself with the British. SATYENDRA: But he has not repudiated the French Government. SRI AUROBINDO: No, but it comes to that. NIRODBARAN: Pavitra can be sent anywhere now. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, wherever he is called. But only after training, which will require eight months. SATYENDRA: They must have an army to protect Pondicherry also. ...
... Purani, Champaklal, Punamchand and his wife Champaben, and Kanailal Gangulee. The year 1924 saw the arrival of Punjalal, again from Gujarat. A French army engineer Phillipe Barbier Saint-Hillaire (Pavitra) came and settled down in 1925. And the following year 1926 saw the arrival of Anil Baran Roy. Page 1 Let us salute the memory of these sixteen ardent seekers of Light who, between the... destiny. (1) Suresh (Moni), (2) Bejoy, (3) Nolini, (4) Amrita, (5) Datta, (6) Barindra, (7) Rajangam, (8) Purani, (9) Kanai, (10) Punamchand, (11) Champaben, (12) Champaklal, (13) Punjalal, (14) Pavitra, (15) Satyen, (16) Lilavati (Purani's wife), (17) Dr. Upendra Nath Banerjee, (18) Nonibala (Upendra Nath's sister), (19) Rajanikanta Palit, (20) Kshitish Chandra Dutt, (21) V. Chandrasekhar, (22) ...
... the Mother for the occasion. Her choice of my name had an occult touch, for I had just a passing whim to go to the Lieutenant-Governor and the Mother caught its vibration! I was so surprised when Pavitra, our Director, spoke to me of her choice. I had several other instances and I am sure many others know too how such small passing wishes or prayers were caught by her. Page 77 From the... views on the matter, though I suspected that she had already been consulted before the step was taken. It was the usual morning Pranam time and people had gathered, among whom were Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Champaklal, Madhav and others. The Pranam being over, the Mother was on her way to her room on the top floor, when I asked her, "Mother, what should I do? Shall I join the Group?" The question led ...
... above so much the better, but as almost everybody is down in the physical, it is a little difficult perhaps." A sadhak brings me the news that Page 130 some sadhaks like Pavitra and Anilbaran live constantly on the intuitive plane. I am not aware that they or anybody lives constantly on the intuitive plane. All are at grips with the difficulties of the physical... done so up to now. It is a bit of a surprise to learn that there is only one sadhak to whom a suggestion of revolt cannot come. I thought there were some more, like Khirod. Dyuman, Pavitra. Khirod was not mentioned so I did not speak of him. As for the others they may get suggestions but do not yield to them. You referred to M. as having strong desires ...
... see those department heads who needed her urgent guidance. People who had birthdays had their special darshan and disciples with special personal problems went to her for advice. Nolini-da, Pavitra-da, Amrita-da and some others used to take to Mother the letters of devotees staying in India and abroad, and who placed their problems before her for her advice. On top of all this, she used to... to various problems regarding the running of the Ashram and offered her guidance. She used to attend to the individual problems of Page 305 the Ashramites. Nolini-da, Amrita-da, Pavitra-da and other secretaries communicated to her the news of the devotees staying outside. Many visitors vent to her for darshan and she attended to various other small activities. This continued up ...
... Chandernagore. 14 December. Manindra Naik, a representative from Chandernagore in the Legislature in Pondicherry, met Sri Aurobindo. 26 December. Phillippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire (later known as Pavitra) arrived from Japan. A letter from Swamaprabha. 1926 1 and 25 January. Talks on Theosophy. 26 January. Talk on art and Vaishnavism. 28 January. Talk on art. Sri Aurobindo said: "Really... it towards his Ananda. " ¹ The names of those disciples who were present on 24 November 1926: (1) Bijoy Kumar Nag, (2) Nolini Kanta Gupta, (3) K. Amrita, (4) Moni (Suresh Chakravarty), (5) Pavitra (Phillippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire), (6) Barindra Kumar Ghose, (7) Datta (Miss Hodgson), (8) K. Rajangam, (9) Satyen, (10) Purani, (11) Lilavati (Purani's wife), (12) Punamchand, (13) Champa Ben ...
... at his painting and tell me something about it. I would like to share with you some of Her comments. I came to know from Tanmay-da that the Mother had shown Pavitra-da, the director of the School, the three paintings by Arup. She had asked Pavitra-da to inform Tanmay-da that whenever Arup needed anything for his drawings (paper, paints etc.) the school should provide him with everything. Arup was then ...
... .. 4 II When the number of children increased and several were found to be of a schooling age, the Mother took the decision to open a School. This was done on 2 December 1943, 5 with Pavitra and Sisirkumar Mitra in charge of the twenty pupils. The ultimate direction and guidance in every detail was of course the Mother's, who accepted this burden of divine responsibility with a light heart... lities. If she found in Sisirkumar Mitra, formerly of Shantiniketan, a seasoned academic head, she likewise found Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya a dedicated exponent of physical culture; and there was Pavitra to give purpose and shape and proper direction to the School. While the academic courses were organised on efficient lines, physical culture received equal importance. As Nirod saw it, the daily regimen ...
... Maurice 369 Minnie 765 Mishra 575 Mrityunjoy 270, 289, 364 Munshi 537 Narayan Prasad 434 Nirodbaran 273-4, 398-9, 437-8, 444, 494, 590 Nolini Kanta 86, 196-7, 217-8, 234, 822-3 Okhawa 174-5 Pavitra 227-9 Purani 211, 235 Rishabhchand 278 Romen 365, 708 Sahana 263, 281, 285, 287, 289, 364-5 Shanti 271-3 Subbarao 222 Sunil 681-2 Surendranath 417 Suvrata 418 Udar 279 Vasudha 266, 287... Panu Sarkar 495 Parubai Patil 691 Parul Chakraborty 548 Patanjali 836 Patel, A.B. 573, 686 Patel, Manibhai 685 Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai 457, 463 Pathak, G.S. 778 Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire) 227-30, 235, 246, 280, 287, 296-7, 321, 325, 328-9, 362, 372, 433, 478, 494, 496, 558, 578, 678, 690-1, 732, 734, 780 Plato 315 Poincaré, President Raymond 132 ...
... perfection. 5 There were other aspects of the educational landscape of the Centre of Education which, as the years passed, were to come more and more prominently into view. First among these was what Pavitra, one of the principal executants of the Mother's educational policies, has called the homogeneity of the scholar population. This simply meant that the pupils were mainly - if not exclusively - drawn... drawn from the homes of sadhaks or disciples, and were thus initially conditioned to some extent at least to the Ashram ideals and the Ashram way of life. The second feature highlighted by Pavitra was continuity of education, meaning that children usually spent ten to fifteen years continuously at the Centre of Education, a period long enough, one could say, for the accomplishment of the best results ...
... the word in two dictionaries, but then in a third one the word was there, and I sent it through Vasudha with a sense of relief and expectancy. Mother turned to Pavitra and exclaimed, "See, see, what this boy is teaching about French!". Pavitra consulted the dictionaries and it was noted that it was an archaic word. * * * When for the Aurofilms unit of the Sri Aurobindo Society Tarachand ...
... Bhai the next batch, and Pavitra, the children of seven to ten years old. These classes were held in the classrooms where now we have the body building gymnasium. The older children were divided into three Groups, and their classes were held in rooms where the Playground storeroom stands today. The older students, mostly sixteen years and above, had their classes with Pavitra Da either in the Ashram ...
... I wasn't six, I was twenty if a day! When Mother would stand talking with Pavitra at the doorway of my laboratory, her back to me, her hands Page 311 clasped behind her, I never could resist slipping my little finger into her fist. She would at once press it firmly, keep it until her conversation with Pavitra was over. Then only would she release it. And give me such a smile! ...
... to continue my study of French. So She started a translation class for six of us: Chum, Jhumur, Bubu, Gauri, Parul and myself. We used to go daily to the Mother together. The class was held outside Pavitra Da’s room, in the corridor. Mother would sit on a stool with the six of us around Her. She gave each of us a notebook for taking down dictations. She started with the translation of Words of the M... I would paste in my notebook. She used many of the passages of the 4th Series for recitations but nothing from the 3rd Series was used. The translation class gradually expanded and seniors like Pavitra Da, Nirod Da, Mrityunjoya Da and Debu soon joined it. Since there were so many people, the Mother stopped correcting notebooks individually. But She continued correcting mine till She completed the ...
... that's all I have heard. ( The child hesitates ) Eh? Say, say, speak, but think of what you are saying. (In a loud voice) Passion. (The child laughs). Ah! (Another child) Passion! (Pavitra) Passion! Passion! And I heard " pensée "! Good. So what about passion? Is it a weakness of the heart? Weakness? No, it is a disorder of the vital. ( Silence ) The feeling Page 376 ...
... ." Oh, it was in Prayers and Meditations? Yes, Sweet Mother. And so, what did I tell you? Ah, it's going to be interesting! ( Laughter ) What did I tell you? ( Long silence ) Pavitra: We could add "offering" also! I think they are closely synonymous, that they are rather shades Page 227 than differences. Because one can very well replace one by another in a sentence ...
... time!" ( Silence ) Ah! I think it is time to stop. Last time you said that Madame David-Neel did not know how to swallow up her creation and that you taught her the "trick" of doing it. (Pavitra repeating aloud) Madame David-Neel did not know how to swallow up her creation.... Ah, yes, and so?... You want me to give you the trick? ( Laughter ) First wait till you know how to make these ...
... the "Marching". × In continuation of this talk, while leaving the Playground Mother remarked to Pavitra: "It is the cellular response to the enthusiasm of the vital." ...
... I find the same solid wall blocking me. Page 145 I have the intention of taking in hand the problem of education. I am preparing myself for it. It may take two years. But I have warned Pavitra that when I intervene and remould things, it may seem like a cyclone. People may feel that they can no longer stand on their legs! So many matters will get upset. There will be all-round bewilderment ...
... Le savant L’artiste L’inconnu Six Monologues and a Conclusion by THE MOTHER in collaboration with NOLINI ( The Writer ) PAVITRA ( The Scientist ) ANDRÉ ( The Industrialist ) PRANAB ( The Athlete ) Six of the world's most famous men have been brought together, apparently by chance, in a life-boat in which they have ...
... had the experience, then it went away It got mixed up with the daily work. And I remember... It's interesting because while I was in that state, I remembered the question you'd asked me about Pavitra, whether the principle of individuality persists; so something in me said to you, "Now you see, it's like this!" ( Mother laughs ) I remembered your question, I said, "It's like this, there is NO MORE ...
... or maybe next Wednesday, I will tell you. 1 Page 180 × Let us note that two days later, on May 16, Pavitra left his body. ...
... forced to.... I always come back to the simple thing, which is the NEED. But I am counting on your book to shake all that up—it's very well explained there, very well. I remember the first time Pavitra read something of yours 2 (it was a long time ago, several years), he told me, "Oh, it's a revelation for me!" How many years had he been here!... 3 He said, "Oh, at last I've understood that ...
... × An old and very faithful disciple whose body was found on the beach. This is the continuation of the series that began with Bharatidi, then Amrita, Pavitra.... Rishabhchand was the author of Sri Aurobindo—His Life Unique . × Astha is nine year old. ...
... came most in touch with forceful Purani, gentle Pujalal, poised Nolini, sympathetic Amrita, diligent Champaklal, disciplined Dyuman, simple Rajangam, enthusiastic Dara, scrupulous Premanand, cordial Pavitra, dignified Anilbaran and courteous Doraiswamy on his week-ends from Madras. All of them were devoted workers. I sought to catch the light which they channelled in their diverse ways. I was the youngest ...
... × Zakir Hussain, who died on May 3. × Pavitra is dying—perhaps we should say, dying from it. × Leonardo da Vinci left for France in 1515, and ...
... plenty of them—many of the Indians, unfortunately—and most of them were released), they all said they had been admirably treated. I heard that from all quarters. And Nehru, you see (that's what Pavitra told me yesterday, he Page 174 went to the town hall to listen to Nehru's speech), Nehru is an out-and-out social democrat who believes that the ideal organization for mankind, instead ...
... move by... ( laughing ) the push-button of their will... It's very funny! "...the push-button of their will—and yet most of those who surrender to God expect that from Him." I read it to Pavitra; he said, "But still, that's rather like the way things work!" He didn't quite understand ( Mother laughs ). ( Mother comments on the previous conversation, in which she was looking for a way ...
... the only person to whom I can speak—not that I didn't try [during Satprem's trip to France], because I had the feeling that if certain things went away, it might be a pity. I tried with Nolini and Pavitra: nothing comes out, except a sort of mental transcription. Page 137 When I called you Satprem, that's what I meant: you must certainly have the capacity to come into contact with That. ...
... surface, it's a very humble work, nothing sensational. There are no illuminations filling you with joy: all that is fine for people seeking spiritual joys—it belongs to the past." ) Yesterday I told Pavitra that all those realizations, all those... yes, these powers, gifts, constructions, manifestations, it all reminded me of the life of a traveling juggler. He was shocked. "Yes," I told him, "it's ...
... caught up and there was no way to get out of it. That's how it was—something ABSOLUTE. I've asked no one, I've told no one, I haven't said anything about it, not a word; you're the first. When Pavitra came yesterday I smilingly asked him if he'd had a good meditation, that's all. He said yes. So I told him, "Well, Sri Aurobindo was sitting on you!" ( Mother laughs ) "I was sitting below, in Sri ...
... to change the physical, to change Matter.... You get a feeling that you have touched—touched a secret, found a key—and the next minute, pfft! it no longer works, it's inadequate. I was telling Pavitra a few days ago: all those physical disorders of the body, those disorders in the functioning or even organic disorders, suddenly (naturally, the constant state is one of aspiration: an intense, continuous ...
... I feel the need to redefine my presence here from an outside perspective. I thought of going to Brewster's lodge in the Himalayas. There, I could continue some of the work I have been doing with Pavitra. It seems to me that I would come back freed and refortified in my purpose for being here. Sweet Mother, am I deluding myself? What is your will? It is your will that I want, not my desire, and ...
... inscriptions. Page 351 I think it's Tibetan. Very nice. Yes, it has a good face. ( silence ) You didn't see him? No, Mother, I only saw pictures of him. Something akin to Pavitra, was my impression. Oh, really! Yes, in the same "line," if you will. ADDENDUM ( Account of the Dalai Lama's visit. The Dalai Lama's questions were put to Mother by Kireet, the ...
... the Ashram could easily boast of quite a few people who could be considered in cultural and literary fields equal of any of the greats in those spheres outside. To name a few: Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita, Anilbaran, Dilip Kumar Roy, Sahana Devi, Amal Kiran, Nishikanto. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have hinted that in their past lives some of these sadhaks had been great historical figures ...
... Correspondence with The Mother 6 January 1933 Mother, Venkataraman asked me whether I would show him the readings of my horoscope as calculated by Pavitra. I told him that they are not meant for circulation and that I could not give to anyone without your express sanction. He then asked me to ask you. No. 6 January 1933 ...
... the Cocotiers to fetch all the things she was using for this mending work. A small almirah or the chest of drawers may be needed to keep all the work in course of doing. Ammani will go also to Pavitra twice a week for ironing his things when washed. 5 May 1933 ...
... a gentle-looking face, usually a smile played on her lips. We caught only glimpses of her when she accompanied the Mother when She appeared on the Terrace for what was called Terrace Darshan (over Pavitra-da’s room). I think she held a parasol over the Mother. Chinmayee was the personal attendant of the Mother. She was a meticulous worker, and showed some others how things should be arranged for the ...
... She entered fully into the spirit of the happy illuminative talks and intuition-developing games held there. She made one of three Westerners who were present in that group — the two others being Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St. Hilaire) and Datta (Dorothy Hodgson). When Vaun decided to leave the Ashram for good, Janet appeared very unwilling but left out of a sense of duty. She kept corresponding ...
... even thought they had to take all necessary steps because she had died. What happened? Her own words, spoken in English on 3 April, after the storm had calmed down somewhat, and noted down by Pavitra, tell the story. ‘Exactly between 11:00 and 12:00 last night, I had an experience by which I discovered that there is a group of people — purposely their identity was not revealed to me — who want ...
... Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, p. 155. See also in Questions and Answers 1953 , pp. 67-68, the revealing passage of a conversation on science Sri Aurobindo had in 1925 or 1926 with Pavitra, the French disciple who was a scientist with a degree from the École polytechnique in Paris. × ...
... teaching. … “The fight is within the body. …” This dramatic fight must have gone on for several days till the Mother, on 13 April, dictated the following victory bulletin in French, probably to Pavitra, another French disciple: “Suddenly in the night I woke with the full awareness of what we could call the Yoga of the World. The Supreme Love was manifesting through big pulsations, and each pulsation ...
... In the beginning the Mother came on the terrace of Sri Aurobindo's house at 6 p.m. and walked there for half an hour. After a year she started going out to the lake in the car that was driven by Pavitra, and walked there for half an hour or more and returned at 6.30 p.m. There was a programme of soup distribution at about 7 p.m. above the reception-room verandah. During the soup distribution most ...
... this [tiny] is. My room opposite one small passage. The door open, passage will be thin. This door always closed. I remain, I not come out. Mother going that house how can I? That time Mother, Pavitra, and Chinmayee will be going that passage. I use light, I put dhoop, Mother coming. Mother may not come my room, my duty is remain. After, Mother ask outside, "What is this?" That why light is ...
... have never talked to Her yet. Only once when She distributed sweets and I asked Her for one for our patient who could not come. But the threads are there: the doctor who reports to Her every day, Pavitra, Nahar who wants to create these connections, asking for photos of Her for our Nursing Home, telling Her probably about me, etc... Here we are all captives of Her love. This is not an abstraction or ...
... She is so near me I cannot. Maybe because first I adored Mother as the Highest and I cannot even move in such moments, when She is near. But it will come. She will create it. She creates everything. Pavitra kneeling at the great stone of Sri Aurobindo's Samadhi, a girl of 16 with a face of almost a pure spirit, the work of hundreds of sadhaks who pray working.... ...
... While some were openly critical of the new order, some merely found themselves unequal to the demands made upon them by the changed situation. Of course, people like Nolini, Amrita, Champaklal and Pavitra had already accepted unquestioningly whatever Sri Aurobindo proposed or approved. But it was otherwise with rebellious spirits like Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother, Barin.’ 28 (K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar) ...
... stability. Signed : Mother × For a long time, Satprem took care of the correspondence with the outside, along with Pavitra, not to mention editing the Ashram Bulletin as well as Mother's writings and talks, translating Sri Aurobindo's works into French, and conducting classes at the Ashram's 'International Centre of ...
... change their clothes; they come to your house and of course they bring along the disease. So the number of cases keeps Page 43 multiplying and multiplying. I have been meaning to tell Pavitra to be careful of that little character who works for him—even ordinarily I don't like to see him running around here. It's strange how it sullies the atmosphere—oh, you can't imagine! Almost all of ...
... still open), a very large snake came out, right from the spot I had just left. He was furious and heading straight towards the open door, ready to strike (luckily I was alone, neither the driver nor Pavitra were there, otherwise...). When the snake had come quite near, I looked at him closely and said, 'What do you want? Why have you come here?' There was a pause. Then he fell down flat and off he went ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1967 December 16, 1967 Yesterday evening, Pavitra asked me for a message for the opening of the School today. I wasn't in too good a mood(!) and sent him away. This morning, at five, a message came to me, and I wrote it down. I had barely finished writing it down when three others came! So I wrote the four of them, and at seven o'clock ...
... say that we'll be able to understand the other revolutions only when this one takes place. Yes, the others are the links. In Europe, right now things are stirring a lot. ( silence ) Pavitra read the "Notes on the Way" [conversation of August 28 , I think he hasn't understood one bit of it! Because yesterday he told me he'd read it, and he very sweetly said he was "asking for understanding" ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1967 October 7, 1967 ( Satprem describes his meeting with the monk. ) ... But he talked with Pavitra, it seems he is interested in the quest for the "inner divine," that's what he wants to find. He said, "The divinization of the earth is all and well ..." ( Mother laughs ) but what interests him is the discovery of the inner divine. ...
... able to tell me the way in which we here should approach the question and to give me the few major elements on which I will be able to build my exposition." November, 1960 I do not know what Pavitra told you or asked you for, but here is a summary of what I said to him. For a long time I have been thinking of explaining to the students young and old alike, the particular truths that are found ...
... . × Also in 1967, about the story of a diplomat's son killed during the war who had merged with Pavitra, Mother said, "It's a knowledge of the CELLS' consciousness." See Agenda VIII of March 7, 1967 . × ...
... group in the "Prosperity" Room. The other was Amal. This selection did not denote that either Doraiswamy or Amal was more deeply devoted to the Mother than the rest of those present: Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, Dyuman, Champaklal, Lalita, Tajdar, Chinmayi, Dara, etc. It simply denoted that Doraiswamy and I turned inwardly to the Mother most frequently for help because we found ourselves more often than ...
... work. I may conclude my tale by mentioning that I did a few portraits too. Once in the evening gathering in the Prosperity Room it happened that both the Mother and I started sketching the face of Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St-Hilaire). She did the front face while I attempted the profile. She used swift bold strokes in contrast to my method of slow delicate lines. I seemed to be after precise resemblance ...
... life of hers? Your reply, in spite of all that I have already urged, will be that, for whatever reason, she was ready to give up her body and had in mind the body of Nolini or Champaklal or Dyuman or Pavitra or Amrita or Satprem to fulfil the work Sri Aurobindo had assigned to her: namely, "our Yoga of supramental descent and transformation." Now is the moment for me to set forth my discovery ...
... leaving him, and he left like that, in a great concentration. Why did that come? I don't know. And one, two, ten, fifty experiences like that—those two struck me. The first, because the NEXT DAY Pavitra told me a gentleman had written to ask me the question I told you: he had been very ill, he was in bed, anyway at death's door, and he had written to ask that question. Curious, isn't it? It's ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1965 December 18, 1965 (Sujata:) Why is Pavitra in such poor condition? The doctor predicted he wouldn't be able to move anymore at all, and he climbs the stairs, goes here and there. Only, it's quite an effort. But the doctor said, "He won't be able to move anymore, he will be bed-ridden." So it's ...
... anything. I tried two or three times, just to see—there's no reaction, nobody understands, nobody! Even if I speak to someone more intelligent or better informed.... Once or twice I said something to Pavitra, to see what would happen: he immediately dogmatizes, makes a mental principle out of it (consistent with Sri Aurobindo's teaching, of course!). And it becomes something rigid, like a box. And he tries ...
... Hitler's typal tyranny which, if successful, would have blocked their work of spiritual evolution. Sri Aurobindo kept in close touch with every development by means of a radio fixed in his room by Pavitra. Many of us understand that he intervened at various turning-points. But not many realise a most crucial intervention by the Mother. I came to know of it from private sources nearly twenty years ...
... me: I mean Purani. Another sadhak I should have Page 21 two Americans in the Ashram. They were the first Westerners to reach the Ashram in its initial period of 1926-27. Pavitra 1 was already present, he had been settled for a few years, and we had an English lady named Datta — Miss Hodgeson — who had been associated with the Mother in France. But after the early settlement ...
... others have been left out. I think there were only three or four people whom I could not particularly characterise in my sketches because they meditated more or less in a normal fashion. For instance, Pavitra, sitting perfectly straight and looking very calm and pure. I may mention Lalita too, quiet and refined and childlike. Amrita looked the picture of meekness, the Divine's obedient and ever-ready servitor ...
... it. She smiled most beautifully, tilted her head to one side and said in silence: "I accept your love and I understand your need." In the evening she came to our house to meet K.G. I sat with Pavitra in my room, while S.A. shut himself up in his. After a few minutes I felt a tremendous pressure on the head—as if an extraordinary descent had been taking place. In all these two and a half weeks in ...
... Script", 179 fn., 181fn. "The Coming of the Aryans...", 204 ff. Parthia, 207 Paruetae, 291 Paruṣṇī ( = modern Ravi), 283, 290, 353, 355, 357 Pasadyumna, 356 pavitra, 345 Pazyryk, 317 Periano Ghundai, 182, 249, 253 pernēmi, 291, 347 Persepolis, 206 Persepolis Treasury, 319 PGW, see Painted Grey Ware ...
... of grave illness which had threatened her life, the Mother spoke for the first time on April 13, 1962. She lay stretched on her bed, in her room upstairs, very thin. Dr. Sanyal, Nolini, Vasudha and Pavitra were present. It was round about 10 o'clock in the morning. Suddenly in the night I woke with the full awareness of what we could call the Yoga of the World. The Supreme Love was manifesting ...
... for Sri Aurobindo's use and asked me if I had kept the unusable bits of the old ones. She knew that I must have preserved them 1 I said: “Yes.” Mother: “Then bring them; they will be given to Pavitra and he will make a nice big cake out of them. I give all my bits to him and he prepares a big cake from them.” The war-time restrictions were still not removed and there was difficulty in getting soap ...
... hold her hand and walk with her up to Pavitra's laboratory. Abhay Singh and Sujata are waiting near Pavitra's laboratory door; and, a little further, stands Jayandlal. Inside the laboratory are Pavitra, Noren Singh, Sumantra, Suprabha and Sumkra. 2 Nolini and Amrita are in Pavitra's room. On the window-side, to the south of the passage, stand Pujalal, Nirod and Biren; in front of the table ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Excellent Once, on seeing two paintings of mine, Mother turned to Pavitra and exclaimed: “Excellent, excellent! These are much more interesting than modern art. They have something... something to say. They are far, far, infinitely better than the others.” ...
... making the best possible of us.—Doraiswamy To be in complete union with You.—Dyuman To live only for Mother as if nobody and nothing else existed.—Lalita Divinising life.—Nolini To return home.—Pavitra Birth of the supreme harmony in matter from the union of the above and the below.—Purushottama The process by which we transcend the ego and put on the Divine Consciousness and by which we transform ...
... ring love by which the whole vital being becomes purified and one-pointed.—Amal Full conversion and consecration of the physical consciousness. Liberation from all sexual impulses and desires.—Pavitra To be taken right into the Beyond in surrender.—Datta Deep and complete Faith in all the parts (even in the physical cells).—Chandulal I pray constantly to Him to give me the realisation of ...
... sweep. But the musical analysis is very interesting and much more illuminative than the superficialities one ordinarily comes across. By the way did you hear of the Governor's comment on the music to Pavitra, " I have listened to much Indian music, but never to anything that could at all equal that!" A thorough going eulogy—what? and obviously sincere. December 27, 1935 (from Mother) ...
... book Anami. Page 291 how the language is printed—otherwise the divisions of words/ etc. will be all wrong. If you send your proof copy here, the Mother will get it done by Pavitra. Yes Anjali is a very good heading for the translations. I have read today along with the original your translation of the prayer in Page 373. It is a very fine poem, but it seems to me there ...
... came down, all-composed, and He had only to move his fingers on the machine—whereupon it was transcribed.³ ________________________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 168-9. ² Conversations avec Pavitra, p.156. ³ The Mother, Questions and Answers, 29.8.1956. Page 56 During the period of 1914, when she was in Pondicherry, Mother came to see Sri Aurobindo every afternoon; she learnt ...
... Pandit, M.P. Sadhana in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (Ashram Press, 1972) Page 280 Pandit-M.P. Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Sri Aurobindo (Ashram Press, 1966) Pavitra Education and the Aim of Human Life (Ashram Press, 1961) Purani, A.B Life of Sri Aurobindo (Ashram Press,1958) Sri Aurobindo in England (Ashram Press, 1956) ...
... suddenly, overnight, the change came. There are lovely showers and it is much cooler. Evenings, nights and mornings are almost European! I have received both your letters and I shall give the letter to Pavitra this evening. It is good that you have written to him. It does not matter at all what you write to me, just write. Everything will come in its due time. Oh! I have such confidence now in Her. Each ...
... continue until you are strong enough to stop. I thought you were strong enough - that's all. Could I get some butter from the Ashram? You can ask Pavitra if he can give you butter. But be on your guard. There was on N a formation of fear - fear of cold, fear of bad health, etc. - take care that this formation does not jump upon you; you must reject ...
... any treatment here, we can try to cure his constipation by a mild laxative, and liver by. Lithinée. Lithinée probably too mild for such a case. Are there no specific medicines from France with Pavitra—you might ask him. April 12, 1936 [In the medical note-book:] Sir, couldn't finish what I began with your other book, so kept it. Will see tonight if Time and the Gods are favourable ...
... were treated with soda bicarb, mag carb, calcium carb and Bismuth. Very dangerous. S got his stomach curled up with these things—had to be operated. I have found a patent drug Biomucine from Pavitra for ulcer to be followed with a strict regime. What is inside the Bio or the mucine? With strict regime she would have to stop work, I suppose, at which she will kick. A's right eye is almost ...
... spoons of Milk of Magnesia which irritated the intestines so much that they resulted in diarrhoea and finally bacillary dysentery. It was about this case Sri Aurobindo wrote that the Mother and Pavitra were horrified at the idea of a child of 4 months being given a purgative, and commented: "Perhaps that and over-administration of medicines is the cause of excessive infant mortality." Another ...
... written so easily. Simplicity is not the test. There can be a supreme beauty of simplicity and there can be the opposite. November 10, 1938 Honey? [8.11.38] [ Mother :] Ask from Pavitra—He must have forgotten—I have told him the very same day to send a bottle to you. Guru, not at all satisfied! nothing flashing! Well, well, you are difficult to satisfy—It may not flash but ...
... played by state of consciousness and suggestion in illness. I shall I suppose one day send you the Presse Médicale with my note (the journal is with me and I shall send it to you, it is no longer with Pavitra) and that will perhaps show the basis. Ptosis means drooping of the upper eyelid by a paralysis temporary or otherwise. But, confound it, there is nothing of the kind. The drooping of the eyelid ...
... can. only come by a total and permanent enlightenment of the below from above, resulting in the removal of the psychological roots of ill health—it cannot be done otherwise. P is about the same. Pavitra has sent us a bottle of Pneumogein, and one of Pulmoserum. Shall we try Pulmoserum as it contains Codein which may be more useful? [The Mother drew a line indicating "Shall we try" and underlined ...
... restless and wants to do some work. But he did a little yesterday after the milk which had upset his digestion and become worse. He had been rapidly getting better before that with a medicine given by Pavitra, but which is now exhausted. He was asked again to take complete rest. He says however that you have told him he can do some light work. I find that Dr. Becharlal has forgotten to mention P's ...
... Nirod I would like you to see her—It might be "arterio-sclerose" Will you verify it and let me know? I suspect also that she is constipated, it is to be ascertained. If it is arterio-sclerose Pavitra has some good medicine for it— October 22, 1937 I am afraid these are not the signs of arteriosclerosis—except the headache... But she is badly constipated which may be the simple reason ...
... curds is always bad for health. X says that a little pepper should be taken with certain kinds of fruits. She got this bit of advice from you! It is very strange — Pavitra himself gives me daily pamplemousse with sugar, never with salt and pepper. So how I could have written that, I do not know — there must have been a mistake somewhere either in my writing or her reading ...
... extent. In the very early days when we were rather few in number, somewhere about fifty, we used to address each other by our names, mere names; there was no dada or didi tagged on: Nolini, Pavitra, Sahana, Lalita, that was all, pure and simple. So when people from outside came, they found it a little queer: "They have no respect here for age, no respect for elderly people, no consideration for ...
... this matter. I am now coming to the end of these lectures, which I would call preliminary, as they contain more hopes than results. During these lectures, some of you may have thought: "Pavitra is telling us all kinds of nice things about the ideal child who, according to him, is always turned towards progress, full of good disposition, who uses his freedom to organize his work, gain knowledge ...
... this path and soon we will see its result. I thought this especially after hearing Mother say to me one day: "Pranab, this time there will be no tragedy. We will certainly complete our work. Pavitra, Nolini and all these old sadhaks are waiting to witness the supramental realisation. I can't dishearten them." Then on 5th December 1950, for some reason, Sri Aurobindo left his body. I was ...
... people would not have quarrelled over insufficient British help. NIRODBARAN: But it has been said, "three-and-a-half lakhs during these few days". SRI AUROBINDO: There must be some confusion. Pavitra may have made some mistake. Churchill is usually very clear in his statements. NIRODBARAN: In some papers there was a complaint against inadequate supplies to France. PURANI: That can't be true ...
... death. (Laughter) PURANI: Astrologers say that after the 20th of this month Hitler's decline will begin. SRI AUROBINDO: Which astrologers? PURANI: The Parsi one and somebody else also. Pavitra too knows astrology, but he did not try to see Hitler's horoscope. SRI AUROBINDO: He is not good at events. He studies the character, and there he has made remarkable readings. About Hitler he has ...
... for the Mother to see to your food, your health. Doctor Nripen says, 'Give the children more vitamins.' Pranab asks for more exercises, also for eggs, meat and fish, sometimes even a picnic or two. Pavitra and Sisir ask for a school and for Knowledge! (Laughter) And there is a great deal more. All these have to become part of our Sadhana. So, you see, the problem is not so simple. The Mother has so ...
... maternal sweetness, she looked like Maheshwari of transcendent glory. She would stand silently before the body, look at it for some time and quietly retire. Sometimes she was accompanied by Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita and others. She did not want the body to be touched and wished that an utter silence should prevail in the room at all times. On 9th December, the Light faded and signs of discoloration ...
... deportment and physiognomy. I felt that she had already marked him as one of her future instruments. All these paved the way to his last service to his Lord and permanent service to the Mother. Besides Pavitra and Dyuman who used to come to clean the carpeted floor, the former at the beginning only, I might mention another sadhak, Udar, who came daily to clean the new furniture in Sri Aurobindo's room since ...
... automatically carried to the top of it; so why set foot on it at all when you see it going in the wrong direction? 4 Even before Dilip came in 1928, Datta (Miss Hodgson) was there and so was Pavitra, formerly P.B. St.-Hilaire, who had seen service as a Captain of the French Army during the world war. Another arrival was the young Englishman J. A. Chadwick, a brilliant Cambridge mathematical ...
... early 1930s — Page 137 she went out pretty regularly in the evenings for a long drive. The car, a 1925, six-cylinder Lorraine, was given to Mother by a French couple, the Potels. Pavitra was her chauffeur. "Something happened to me in a fishing village on the seashore, near Ariankuppam. There is a temple dedicated to Kāli —a terrible Kāli." In the Indian popular belief ...
... English and French, so that we could read in the original the books written by Sri Aurobindo and Mother. A French gentleman, P. B. de Saint-Hilaire, was our science and maths teacher. We knew him as "Pavitra" (the pure one). A product of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, he was entrusted with running a variety of departments in the Ashram. As these began to get expanded, my brothers and I were quickly ...
... Vasudha, a sketch by Mother 87 Rodin in 1906 (courtesy Musee Rodin, Paris) 124 A Brasier car in 1905 135 A mural in St James church at Pau (courtesy Patrice Marot) 138 Pavitra driving Mother's car, from an album of Abhay Page 184 ERRATUM On page 114 (line 2), please read the name of the King of Nepal as: King Mahendra ...
... True surrender is profoundly happy and joyous because with it comes the sensation of the infinite and of the luminous and eternal peace. 13.6.1969 Is it possible to melt in You {like Pavitra, the last night of his life) and still continue to live? No, it is not possible for it is the totality of his soul that entered. But a part of the being, an emanation can do it, if the ...
... Spirit and bring about the "growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being". 6 Aside from the Mother's illuminations and communications, on behalf of the teachers of the Centre of Education, Pavitra presented a weighty and seasoned collective memorandum to the Education Commission. This 16-page document spelt out in considerable detail the insights in the Mother's brief statement and individual ...
... Mother's intentions, and he too spoke sparsely; he was unobtrusively in and out, he was he Mother's executive emanation. The heads of departments - the sadhaks in charge of the divers services - Pavitra, the Director and Kireet, the Registrar of the Centre of Education, Udar with his finger on the pulse of many things, Navajata with his global plans for Sri Aurobindo Society, Prapatti with his expanding ...
... some were openly critical of the new order, some merely found themselves unequal to the demands made upon them by the changed situation. Of. course, people like Nolini, Amrita, Champaklal and Pavitra had already accepted unquestioningly whatever Sri Aurobindo proposed or approved. Page 246 But it was otherwise with rebellious spirits like Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, Barin ...
... Aurobindo and of the Mother to the various sadhaks every morning, he also rode on a bicycle once a week to the French Post Office to get the Mother's foreign mail in two or three white canvas bags. Pavitra helped the Mother in her foreign correspondence, and was even otherwise a constant help. Amrita looked to many of the details of the internal management. Reports from each department came to the ...
... one has to read these volumes with becoming humility and due circumspection. We are certainly on a different ground when we read the letters to the same correspondent - Nirodbaran, perhaps, or Pavitra, Sethna, or Dilip especially when the questions are given too and the letters and replies are chronologically arranged. It is, perhaps, also necessary to mention the smaller collections like Lights ...
... And the elderly with new-found eagerness also joined joyfully in the Mother’s karmayoga, this sadhana of the transformation of the body. They began mixing with the children as friends. Nolini-da, Pavitra-da, Amrita-da, Dyuman-bhai, Purani-ji, Nirod-da and many others became our best friends. We could speak with them most freely. In the beginning we used to say about them (of course, behind their backs ...
... and sit around it. Meditate for an hour.” Then She turned to me and said: “Don’t cry. Meditate for one full hour. Don’t worry about the flowers. I will give the flowers to Nolini, Amrita and Pavitra. They will also sit and meditate with you.” We returned from the Mother and came back home and sat before father’s body. We began meditating. But what was this! I kept seeing father, with that happy ...
... Bijoy Kumar Nag 4. Suresh Ghakravarty – "Moni" 5. K. Amrita . 6. B. P. Varma −"Satyen" 7. Tirupati 8. K. Rajangam 9. Khitish Ghandra Dutt 10. A. B. Purani 11. "Pavitra" – P. B. 3t. Hilaire 12. Champaklal 13. Punamchand, and 14. Kanai Occasional participants : 1. S. Doraiswamy Aiyar 2. Rojoni Kanta Palit 3. Anil Baran Roy 4. V. Chandra ...
... Compassion-alms of thy Grace outpour. The Mother was talking to us in the Playground one day about different things. She told us: “I used to go almost every evening for a drive some distance away. Pavitra would drive and when we reached the chosen place he would stop the car, open the door of the car and go out to walk by himself. On one such occasion I was sitting in the car. The air was very peaceful ...
... in August ’70, when her personal assistant, who had served her for so many years with great fidelity had to stop her work. One year before, She had already lost her smiling treasurer, Amrita, then Pavitra, her General Secretary, one of the only pure and solid elements around her. She was increasingly alone in front of the pack. For a month, during those days of August, 1970, her body struggled with ...
... noted down in English in her school notebook, without understanding a thing. And that notebook fell into my hands, open at the entry of January 5, 1953: “I saw Mother coming back from the balcony. Pavitra was there. He asked Mother for a “message.” Mother handed him a drawing and said: “This contains Life and Death. You can choose what you wish. The person capable of joining the two doors will be saved ...
... herself, She felt her way along in the forest. She had well observed a sort of “vertical time” that seemed to have strange properties, but it was a fugitive phenomenon, was it not, and in fact, as Pavitra said, it is an eternity that never has time! Mother never had the time. She had to be on the very verge of death for them to give her the time to catch her breath—one, two days—then She would begin ...
... preferred Spartacus to the Buddha. But on that particular 24th of April, everything was overturned toward a new, unknown sea. It was half past two in the afternoon. And the heat was suffocating. Pavitra, a French graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (God!), was waiting for me on the first floor of the “Ashram.” He was such a fraternal and straightforward man, with a smiling gleam in his eyes. I followed ...
... due to Her increasing workload. Sometimes we had to wait an hour before She could see us. Often we would amuse ourselves noisily to while away the time. By now we had moved to the corridor opposite Pavitra-da’s room. We must have surely disturbed him during his afternoon rest, for we were rather boisterous and noisy. To keep us occupied, one day, the Mother brought us a game which She Herself had ...
... likely that Henri, as an artist, was much taken with the view the countryside presented and the colour full locals. But it is almost certain that he was less taken with Theon. Mother, while talking to Pavitra and Satprem about Madame Theon, recalled an episode figuring the above two. "Madame Theon was an extraordinary occultist. She was a small woman, fat, soft almost, giving you the impression that ...
... hymns speak of the luminous thunders of this stone as they speak of the light and sound of Indra's weapon. Once pressed out as the delight of existence Soma has to be purified through a strainer ( pavitra ) and through the strainer he streams in his purity into the wine bowl ( camū ) in which he is brought to the sacrifice, or he is kept in jars ( kalaśa ) for Indra's drinking. Or, sometimes, the symbol ...
... able to name the opera about which she was speaking. She could not get the title from her own memory and nobody in the company — we were more than a dozen and a half, including Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.- Hilaire). Datta (Miss Dorothy Hodgson) and Shantimayi (Mrs. Jeanette Macpheeters) — could help her out. With some hesitation I dared to whisper in the midst or the general ...
... Yes, it would be better if somebody is with her at night. Let her say whom she would like to have — and if the pain starts again it seems unavoidable to give her some medicine. You might speak to Pavitra about it — he has something helpful with him. More ice and fruit juice can be given if needed — only one shall require the flasks. 29 March 1935 ...
... understood from what the Mother said." He was a wonderful messenger full of understanding, goodwill, consideration and kindness. I am extremely sad to miss people like Amrita, Nolini, Pavitra, Andre, Vasudha, Champaklal, Dyuman, Parichand and so many others who dedicated their lives exclusively to the cause of the Supreme Lord. These people will never be forgotten. By the Grace of the Divine ...
... those that die, but that he should be buried. Great Rishis and other great souls are, by tradition buried and not cremated. So, he was buried at our Cazanove Cemetery, where is also buried Satyakarma, Pavitra, Nolini and Dyuman. Besides being a very good worker, he was a very learned person. He was quite a scholar in Sanskrit and in Tamil and he agreed to try and teach both these languages to me. I say ...
... could boast of possessing one. We didn’t even know enough to think of having one of these gadgets. It was out of reach for most. Haradhanda was one of the few who listened to a radio — Where? When? Pavitra-da’s room had a radio — maybe there. He would repeat the news to those who wanted to hear. My uncle (Pantulu — who appears later as an ‘Among the Not So Great’) being old but interested, sent my brother ...
... read two writings of Sitaram’s — rather than just go through my story of him. The first one is a transcript of a radio broadcast (AIR). Sitaram was one of five chosen by the Mother for the talk. (Pavitra-da was another.) This talk of Sitaram’s gives us a glimpse of the inner Sitaram — albeit only the bit he reveals — it is quite a bit. Even that little shows a man of great depth of feelings, a man ...
... Satyen for the daily expenses? And why should I keep other people’s money in my safe? Money is troublesome, Mother, and I am made of such poor stuff. Please save me. What is all this? . . . When Pavitra told me this evening that you had wept at 3 o’clock, I was moved and felt great pity — but now I see that these were tears from wounded “amour-propre” and not from the heart anxious for progress . ...
... —Doraiswamy Your Faith is the straightest way to Realisation.—Dyuman Keep burning in you the Flame that leads to Realisation.—Lalita Flame up for Realisation.—Nolini Realise yourself.—Pavitra Through Skill in Works you will reach Realisation.—Purushottama Pray for Realisation.—Rajangam I will give you the Realisation of Psychological Perfection.—Satyen Have Faith in your Realisation ...
... 1949-11-30 Sri Aurobindo used to take a pastille after finishing his food. These pastilles came from France. But during war-time they were prepared here by Sujata according to the formula given by Pavitra. Sri Aurobindo used to take the pastille at different times. They were kept in a small square silver box. I would open the box, keep the lid in my hand and place the box in Mother's hands. She would ...
... followed every evening without fail the news bulletins of the B.B.C. There was no radio set in the Ashram, but Udar had a large radio set with all that was necessary to receive the B.B.C. So every night Pavitra, together with Pavita, went to his house to listen to the 9:30 news. Pavita, an English woman whose civil name was Margaret Aldwinckle, had been the secretary of Paul Brunton, the still widely-read ...
... eliminated … I don’t care about the date. If he dies it is enough.’ 41 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother followed the war very closely, not only in the newspapers but also on the radio. At first, Pavitra and Pavita (the former secretary of the writer Paul Brunton) went every evening to the house of Udar Pinto who had a radio. Pavita noted down the news bulletin in shorthand, wrote it out in longhand ...
... text reads here “that what is to be done is done”, but this is in obvious contradiction to the meaning of the whole, spoken in English by the Mother and possibly misunderstood by the French disciple, Pavitra, who noted it down. × The Mother apparently means that everything was an experience of her universal ...
... approaching; soon this kind of voice will no longer be heard. Let us therefore listen to a very important experience — but what experience was not important? — which she dictated herself (probably to Pavitra) and which she even found worthwhile to read out at the Playground. ‘Formerly I had an individual subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on 3 February [^1958] I walked in it concretely ...
... said to the Jews, proud of their descent from Abraham: 'I tell you, God is able to raise up from these stones seed unto Abraham.' P ralaya-payodhi-jale dhritavanasi vedam 'Vihita-pavitra-charitramakhedam Page 356 Keshava! dhrita-mina-sharira ! Jay Jagadisha Hare." * This, duly sent up to Gurudev, elicited the following comment: "As for ...
... acquisition of knowledge is, of course, what is generally seen as the aim of study. In the curriculum of the Ashram school all the usual academic subjects were found – mathematics and science (for which Pavitra built a well-equipped laboratory) as well as what are called the ‘humanities’: modern languages and Sanskrit, history, geography, sociology, psychology, philosophy, etc. The Mother made it clear, however ...
... consciousness will be there.’ 40 Dramatic words in dramatic circumstances. But this proved to be only the first part of the drama, for on 13 April the Mother dictated in French, probably to Pavitra, the following victory bulletin. Like the previous text, it is not a very idiomatically correct translation from the French, but it is left untouched because of its impact and historic value. ‘Suddenly ...
... interesting bit of occult news I heard in the early days of my stay here when I was very chummy with the central group of the sadhaks — Nolini, Amrita, Purani, Anilbaran, Champaklal, Dyuman, Rajangam, Pavitra — was that, when in a past life of theirs Sri Aurobindo had been Leonardo da Vinci and the Mother Mona Lisa, Doraiswamy had been Francis 1, King of France (1494-1547). Francis 1 was renowned ...
... a first-rate follower of Sri Aurobindo, a full-fledged child of the Mother?" Perhaps there is a streak of Page 57 unacknowledged ambition - a jealousy of Nolini and Champaklal and Pavitra and Dyuman, possibly even of stumbling, fumbling and still onward-rumbling Amal Kiran! On the other hand, you underrate your own powers of intelligence and application and industry, your own possibilities ...
... and his wife Mona, Maniben, some others and myself were waiting for the Mother at the gate of Huta House. For at last the renovation of my apartment had been completed. Her car approached driven by Pavitra with Pranab beside him. The Mother asked Pranab to remain in the car. Along with all of us she climbed the long red staircase. The key was in the Yale lock which she turned, declaring my apartment ...
... on a bamboo sheet. She wished me: Bonne Année To My dear little child, to my sweet Huta With all my love At 10 a.m. I went to the Ashram and sat in the corridor upstairs near the room of Pavitra with some people to listen to the music which the Mother was playing on her old organ. The Mother has stated about her music in Mother India , May 1960, p. 42: This music aims at awakening ...
... solidly interesting. But it is all the history known to many people in France—just as many in England gather their history from Shakespeare's plays. 2 December 1934 Victor Hugo When I said to Pavitra that Les Misérables was one of the great works of art he replied "Faugh! What a shallow thing." But I believe I heard from Amrita that you used to regard it as one of the world's great novels. ...
... from Sri Aurobindo's talks in this section are from A. B. Purani 's Evening Talks. Others are from talks noted by Anilbaran (published in Sri Aurobindo Circle), and from unpublished notations by Pavitra. Page 261 88. History of the Freedom Movement in India, by R. C. Majumdar (Firma KLM, 1988), Vol. III. p. 81 IV 89 . 17.7 -8 105 ...
... What you just said... That has nothing to do with this. If there is a concentration... 3 What did I say? Why, I am forgetting... I am hearing impossible things. What was it? (Pavitra) An observation. An observation of what? ( The disciple mutters an answer which Mother does not hear. ) Do you understand what he is saying? I don't. (A child) He took this for ill-will ...
... perched? At the end of the world! I shall never be able to hear her. What did you want to ask? Could I ask you another question? Is mental imbalance due to the same cause, Sweet Mother? (Pavitra, repeating) Is mental imbalance due to the same cause? Very often, but not always. Mental imbalance can be due to many different causes. One of them may be simply a physical structure which is ...
... will be shown a collection of coloured photographs which we have received from a photographer in... I think it's California. Page 45 Los Angeles is in California, isn't it? ( Mother asks Pavitra ) I still know my geography! Well, you see, it is absolutely ultra-modern painting. It is photography. There is no painting there, it is photography. They are negatives printed on photographic paper ...
... know if he took it from old traditions, it is possible, but still... you have heard of Rabelais? Page 149 Yes? Well, it was told in France by Rabelais in a book—it is... ( Mother turns to Pavitra, who doesn't know, then to Nolini ) Perhaps Nolini knows! (Nolini) "Pantagruel". "Pantagruel"! Well, I know nothing about it. It is one of the famous books of Rabelais... which I haven't read ...
... leap over that bridge; it is not possible. It can be done very quickly if you know how to use the help that's given to you; but it has to be done. That's all? Has anyone anything to ask? Pavitra is looking for his soul! Mother, here Sri Aurobindo says: "... the same problem has to be approached from a new starting-point." Yes. That's exactly what I have just said. The problem remains ...
... can give, can strike a violent blow and indeed destroy its reality. If you know how to do this, then it is an opportunity to get rid of the thing immediately. But it is not very easy to do this. Pavitra: How to do it? How to do it? ( Mother laughs. ) How to do it? It is the same thing as, the same method as, knowing how to destroy a formation, you understand. It is a certain strength to dissolve ...
... farther on? That will be for next time. ( Mother continues questioning. ) And you, nothing? Now then, you, you too have nothing to ask? It comes a little later. So I have read very little? Pavitra: No, Mother! I have received complaints because I read The Mother through too fast. I have been asked to read more slowly; so I read more slowly. Sweet Mother, what is meant by "the substance ...
... no why about it, is there? Everyone should find this out for himself, or not find it out. But I have heard from those who are interested in earth-chemistry that there are certain rays—( turning to Pavitra ) isn't that so? Tell us, do you know about it?—sun-rays which remain active in the atmosphere till midnight, and other rays which become active afterwards, and these give you strength and those draw ...
... section. And the colours were seen distinctly and one could see right through.... I think you could do this geometrically. The whole surface is taken up by one section of the curve of the spiral. Pavitra: Are these spirals on the surface of the sphere or inside? No, the spirals are inside. Hence towards the centre. They are intersecting. Their direction is such that the whole sphere is ...
... told us you would narrate... Look here, I had another. How many stories can I tell you! Well, the other one is very short. It is also interesting. It is about curing oneself of fear. (Perhaps Pavitra knows the name!).... There was a French scientist who had written a book in which he narrated an experience he had had in the Jardin des Page 43 Plantes. He wanted to know to what extent ...
... can give, can strike a violent blow and indeed destroy its reality. If you know how to do this, then it is an opportunity to get rid of the thing immediately. But it is not very easy to do this. Pavitra: How to do it? How to do it? (Mother laughs.) How to do it? It is the same thing as, the same method as, knowing how to destroy a formation, you understand. It is a certain strength to dissolve ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1962 June 20, 1962 Pavitra was telling me the other day that, according to the latest scientific discoveries, matter in its present state can be immortal. There's no reason that it couldn't change (for it changes all the time) enough to avoid decay. Nothing in matter's composition stands in the way of its immortality—immortality of form ...
... some time, because first of all he had to stop talking, and then I had to concentrate. And I never did find out what he said to me! ( As she is leaving, Mother asks for some papers left by Pavitra for her to examine: some proposals for school reforms. ) Give me that stuff. I am their despair because I always tell them, 'It doesn't make any difference! Do it like this or do it like that ...
... those people had to be involved just as we always depend on intermediaries in real life). It made me wonder. ( silence ) When I told you last time about that experience [of March 11, with Pavitra] the night I met you and was saying 'good-bye,' I neglected to mention one very important point, the most important, in fact: I was leaving the subjection to mental functioning permanently behind That ...
... bed (ordered!) on April 3rd. Up to April 3rd I still moved around here; then, to bed, no moving! It went on till May. Then the night of April 12th came the second experience, that's when I called Pavitra to record [the message]." × The news and the "diagnosis." ...
... produces things that aren't very pretty.... So she would like to know if you want her to go and work there or to do something on her own. I feel she has a capacity for handicraft that could be used. Pavitra read me her letter. I spontaneously answered him, "Oh, this woman is too perfect for me." You know, "I can do this, I can do that, I do this so well, I do that so perfectly...." There were pages of ...
... you, because there are innumerable interweaving laws and you know nothing about them. So if something happens Page 289 according to these laws you say it is a "miracle" or "chance"! Pavitra has said: "In mathematics it has been shown that if the number of intervening factors is very high, and if they act independently, the result appears to be what is called 'chance'." I have just ...
... here. I am working in "Flour Mill". It is nice and interesting. I am learning many things in Workshop for you, these works are very nice as well as very interesting. Mother, last Sunday, I helped Pavitra-da in his laboratory room, there I feel very nice joy. Our class is going nicely. We have finished Physics and we have started Chemistry. Zoology is very interesting. Mother, but I am very weak in ...
... following a course of treatment. Oh, you're following a course of treatment. Yes, tablets. Oh, that's useless! That's how I feel. Well, I don't know. You don't know. Like poor Pavitra, who has tried all sorts of treatments, and then... So what's wrong? Do you have difficulty breathing? It's a bit like that. And also hot, very hot. Page 168 Yes, ( laughing ) it's ...
... amusing details: it was arranged like the establishments, you know, in those big stylish spas. It was like that. And people came there to take baths in that substance. What do they call it?... Pavitra would know the name. I used to know it: Théon had given it the name they give it today. But I don't remember. A matter denser than physical Matter. But elastic. And probably a matter that will undergo ...
... be immortal. We're not tired, we're ready to struggle for centuries if necessary; we have been created for immortality and we want immortality." It is very interesting. Very interesting. And Pavitra was telling me recently that the Page 383 causes of aging and decay are now being very seriously and deeply investigated. Some quite interesting discoveries are being made: that the cell ...
... picturesque and interesting but too long to narrate. .......... Don't worry about the Bulletin : Nolini has only just finished his translation. I will revise the Questions and Answers with Pavitra, and as for the aphorism, we will see later. I have received a letter from Bharatidi, 1 who is reading your book with enthusiasm and a fine understanding. You do not tell me anything about ...
... It will come. Page 73 × Mother is referring to the diplomat's son she already spoke of who merged with Pavitra. (See Agenda VII of February 23, 1966 ). ...
... e! Buddha is in Nirvana!" ( Mother laughs ) Oho!... "Better keep quiet!" I thought. But he really was there, whatever she thought! That's what it is: going away. I didn't understand why Pavitra, who is here, wrote like that. No, I understand his thought quite well: he see things too closely, mon petit! He sees that all the effort of the earth must be towards the Divine, towards union ...
... understand well only the things you have experienced. If you try to understand all that mentally, you can't, it's not possible; an acute way of feeling has gone. I read this "À Propos" to A. and to Pavitra (you can't find people better disposed and more eager to understand), but all the subtlety was gone!—they didn't understand. They tried (they "understood," they were very interested), but I know, I ...
... Naturally, I put it into words to express myself, but it isn't words, it's only sensations—not even "sensations": vibrations. Voilà. So all that must be having repercussions on the others, like Pavitra, when he told me the other day he was seeking me "up above" and could no longer find me! This very down-to-earth state (we can really call it down-to-earth), this very down-to-earth state Page ...
... These days I am EXPERIENCING that every minute, for everything, everything—everyone and everything around me, at EVERY minute. It's extremely interesting. I'll give you the example of what Pavitra told me yesterday: he always used to go out of his body in his aspiration and to rise very high—I told him a hundred times that he shouldn't do it, it wasn't good (for HIM; to another I would have ...
... means the book is really very good. !? I had a feeling Sri Aurobindo put a lot of his force into it to make it a revelation—a lot. And I became convinced that my impression was correct when Pavitra told me it had opened some doors to him that had never opened before. But that means it has to be read by people who already know a lot. This book is perhaps a step forward, not merely an explanation ...
... thing in the last Bulletin 1 —they didn't dare to say anything, but they didn't understand Page 64 a thing! Even those who, consciously, are supposed to understand: Nolini, Amrita, Pavitra, André... not to mention all the rest who are not as developed intellectually—understand nothing. I have a feeling, a vague feeling that it will give someone, somewhere, very far away physically ...
... it is, no one any longer understands anything of what I write. A few people have timidly ventured to tell me so. Never mind, prepare a copy of the whole thing and I'll show it to the very wise Pavitra. If he says it can pass ... ( Mother laughs ) then ... There will always be people who don't understand. Most of them. So what! If there is one who understands, it's enough. ...
... remember the sounds I utter, there is only the mental transcription. I don't have the memory of the sounds. So how did they rediscover them? Do you know? By crosschecking; that's in fact what Pavitra explains to you. They found stones with inscriptions in Egyptian, in Greek and in Coptic: the same thing said in those three languages. So they pieced it together. Now, with the gramophone and ...
... serving the Truth and enlightening humanity to hasten the rule of the Divine's Love upon earth." There, and that's that. Period. It came in English and afterwards I put it into French. It was Pavitra who read me the gentleman's letter yesterday evening, and while he was reading it, Sri Aurobindo came, and he started laughing! He laughed when the man asked for my reminiscences, and instantly—instantly—I ...
... understand anything. So the best is to let them. But I don't see why we should bother to read their stories. No, really, mental life seems to... go round in circles. There's such a mixture!... (It's Pavitra who read it out to me yesterday evening.) Suddenly there's a sentence from Sri Aurobindo, then a sentence from Y. [the brochure author], then suddenly a sentence from me, then suddenly one from M. ...
... marked a sort of turning point in Mother's life, or the beginning of an unfortunate series: Amrita, Mother's faithful treasurer, was going to leave a few months later, in January 1969, followed by Pavitra in May 1969; then Mother's personal attendant, Vasudha, would fall gravely ill in August 1970, and finally Mother's cashier, Satyakarma, would leave in December 1970. Thus the few reliable disciples ...
... interested to know the text of that experience?... Is it interesting?... As for me, I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say, things are going on.... It's difficult. Yes. But anyway... Pavitra has remained here, not at all mingled; now and then, wholly conscious, otherwise very tranquil. It's good—not a hindrance, you understand.... Now and then, he manifests something, which shows he remains ...
... but he served her brutishly, sparing no pains, although with a growing impatience. He served Mother for more than twenty-five years. Pranab had an instinctive aversion toward me, as he had toward Pavitra (whom he badly mistreated), and in general toward anything that exceeded his primitive intellect—Pranab could only love what he was able to dominate. He was also openly xenophobic: the "sahibs," as ...
... did you give? Here.... ( Mother gives some packages of soup ) Thank you, Mother.... First, "The Synthesis of Yoga" (the chapter on "The Liberation of the Spirit"), then "Conversations with Pavitra," then "Thoughts and Aphorisms" commented on by you, and then "Mother Answers," and finally two old Talks of 1953 in the Playground. Oh, that's... [old]. But they're very interesting. ...
... with you? Nothing, Mother, I'm a little upset about my lack of consciousness during sleep.... I wonder what on earth I do at night! ( after a silence ) Page 267 Does anyone see Pavitra at night? (Sujata:) I see him almost every night. Oh, you see him.... Me, I see him just as when he was here; and he's busy doing things—a totally conscious and active life. Last night, he ...
... government of French India with Governor Baron. ) An image has remained with me which I can't forget. There was a new governor, the one who succeeded Baron [in 1949], and I had gone to see him with Pavitra, and on my way out, in the salon or on the veranda, I don't remember, or the balcony, you were sitting there—don't you remember? No, Mother. You were two or three—you were sitting there. You ...
... and he confirmed it, he told me. There was even a day when he felt Krishna IN him, and then... (he hadn't withdrawn yet at the time, he would see everyone: he saw people, that was when he would see Pavitra and the others 3 ), and then he called everyone, 4 sat in the verandah of that house [above the Ashram's entrance], sat there, had me sit beside him, and called everyone. Then he said, "I have ...
... so it can't be continuded for a log period. But surely it can be taken for 2 or 3 weeks—it will be a good tonic after this weakness. In that case you can give? If it is not with you, take from Pavitra. March 5, 1937 [P suffering from a carbuncle.] He said that if it was going to be serious, he would as well start for home! If he wants to go, don't stop him—let him do so. He was ...
... 1935 Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo June 1935 If it is necessary and convenient, why not send Pavitra to the Chief Medical Officer to discuss the matter with him? It depends mainly on the chief than on others. It is not so pressing. If there were a general rule about the matter, as in France, it would be all right; but a special favour ...
... 1940 SRI AUROBINDO (suddenly) : Is Nolini Sen going today? NIRODBARAN: He has already gone. SRI AUROBINDO: His wife has sent a poem which she received in meditation. It is very good. Pavitra has seen the horoscopes of both husband and wife. He says they are complementary to each other. He has ability, the power of success. NIRODBARAN: Nolini Sen told me about his wife. About himself ...
... surrender. It seems Hitler exerted his influence through Mussolini and has promised Leopold the kingship of Holland. (The paper was shown to Sri Aurobindo and after reading it he asked us to give it to Pavitra for the Mother to see.) SRI AUROBINDO: Then what the Mother said comes true. She said that it might be due to some pro-Nazi general and the influence of his mother that he surrendered. (Looking ...
... within a year of Sri Aurobindo's accident, the war broke out. We came to learn from him that England had at last declared war on Germany. He had learnt it from the Mother who had got the news from Pavitra. There was then no radio in the Ashram. We shall deal further with the topic of War in a separate chapter. These are the highlights of the first year following the accident. Sri Aurobindo's leg ...
... sacrifice. After taking prasad from the Mother, we went to the Central Park, in front of Government House. Later this was renamed "Bharati Memorial Park". This park was designed by the sadhak Pavitra (Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire), one of the Mother's personal secretaries who used to handle all foreign correspondence, and who would drive the Mother's car when she went out. In 1954 those gardens ...
... Heaven was on earth. Oh! I am so grateful, that my being has really no more room to contain all these feelings that fill me. When we read about the Highest Universal Energy (She reads aloud in French - Pavitra and another French sadhak prepare their own translation in advance) and one knows that She is this Energy - I just cannot describe what I feel.... ...
... does not give flowers now and does not usually give sweets or nuts either as Her work with the spreading of the Ashram is growing. So I was very happy that She was exceptionally doing it on that day. Pavitra (Monsieur Saint-Hilaire) brought me to Her and I only know that I was Her child and that two streams of vibrating Force of Her Grace penetrated into my eyes, to my soul, from Her eyes. So Her Grace ...
... A Captive of Her Love 24.12.1957 Today is Christmas Eve. I have given to Pavitra, to hand it to Mother for Christmas, the small Polish Madonna in the dark wooden triptych and your photo. I included inside a letter: "Ma Mere Divine, cette statuette a ete faite en Pologne. Permets que je Te donne aujourd'hui la photo de Riek, Riek par laquelle Tu m'as me nee ...
... treated, but it is getting to be too much of a bad thing. July 5, 1935 K's cod-liver oil will be over in 3 or 4 days. We have no stock. Shall we order from Madras? He is better. Pavitra has a medicine to replace the cod-liver oil for a month. It must be prepared by yourself (as it is concentrated drops) not by K. Will you warn R.K. that he must not press his eyes on Mother's feet ...
... understood. Z has a slight temperature. Given her an Ayurvedic drug galoye . Should we give her soup? [The Mother underlined "soup".] Yes, it is better. Our rose water is exhausted. Pavitra asked me to enquire if you have any. [ Mother :] I have some but it arrived from France in an iron drum. In spite of filtering there is still in it a slight tinct of rust. For any toilet preparation ...
... knowing who has it? You might just as well expect to have a practical knowledge of high mathematics by knowing that Einstein is a great mathematician. Queer ideas you have! Are they Anilbaran? Pavitra? Datta? Dyuman? Nolini? Radhanand, but he can't be for he is Brahma himself, so keeps himself secluded like him, no? ??????? July 18, 1937 Self—Pus still coming out. Nose also angry ...
... "My Thoughts", Sun-Blossoms , p. 39. × A local boy who used to help Pavitra in Atelier. × There is a functional disorder somewhere, not a lesion —and the origin of this functional ...
... Nathalie Nuber, Auroville: p. 368, p. 373, p. 406, p. 409, p. 411 — Lea, Auroville: p. 459, p. 461 — Shakti, Auroville: p. 484 — Bettina, Auroville: p. 120 — Auroville Archives, Auroville: p. 501 — Pavitra, Auroville: p. 513—Nehru Memorial Museum Library, New Delhi: p. 374, p. 383 — Paulo Freire Institute: p. 490, p. 507 — Maria Montessori Association Archives, Amsterdam: p. 345, 348— Pestalozzi Institute: ...
... result that I sprained a thigh muscle in my first run. Luckily, this happened near the finishing line, so I could somehow finish the race. The results were not bad: I shared the second place with Pavitra and Yogananda – the first position went to someone, a sadhu who is no longer with us. I took part in the long jump in the "same manner, without any previous practice or warming up. Some people advised ...
... in long-jump). He has been dead a long time since, but his widow, the mother of Shanta and Babu, is. still known as Tara ARP to the Mother. Eventually, the situation grew more and more serious. Pavitra too received a call to leave here and join the colours; he then held the rank of Captain. I believe he had to report to the local barracks for duty. The Mother went so far as to make the necessary ...
... extent. In the very early days when .we were rather very few in number, somewhere about fifty, we used to address each other by our names, mere names, there was no dādā or didi tagged on: Nolini, Pavitra, Sahana, Lalita, that was all, pure and simple. So when people from outside came they found it a little queer: "They have no respect here for age, no' respect for elderly people, no consideration for ...
... Realisation and Integral Transformation. In the early fifties or late forties, the Mother told me one day—'Pranab, this time there will be no tragedy. I shall do what I have come here for. Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita and all the sadhaks are waiting to see the Supramental Realisation and physical Transformation. I cannot disappoint them. It must happen.' For some reason or other Physical Transformation ...
... lives, with the result that I sprained a thigh muscle in my first run. Luckily, this happened near the goal, so I could finish the race. The results were not bad: I shared the second place with Pavitra and Yogananda—the first position went to someone, a sannyasin who is no longer with us. I took part in the long jump in the same manner, without any previous practice or warming up. Some people ...
... Two Cardinal Points of Education A Collective Memorandum presented in 1965 to the Education Commission, Government of India, by P.B. Saint Hilaire (Pavitra), Director, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, on behalf of the Teachers of this Institution.* ""This Memorandum is an official document stating the position of the ...
... 3. Bijoy Kumar Nag 4. Suresh Chakravarty – "Moni" 5. K. Amrita 6. B. P. Varma – “Satyen” 7. Tirupati 8. K. Rajangam 9. Khitish Chandra Dutt 10. A. B. Purani 11. "Pavitra' – P. B. St. Hilaire 12. Champaklal 13. Punamchand, and 14. Kanai Occasional participants: 1. S. Doraiswamy Aiyar 2. Rojoni Kanta Palit 3. Anil Baran Roy 4. V. Chandra ...
... used to seeing Her as our friend and that is how She was always present in our hearts and minds. Like Bhishma, Dronacharya and the others looked up to Sri Krishna as an Avatar, Nolini-da, Amrita-da, Pavitra-da, Andréda, Nirod-da, Dyuman-da, Purani-ji and so many other senior sadhaks always looked upon the Mother as Mother Aditi Herself, as Maheshwari. Whenever the Mother called out Pavitrada’s name he ...
... recounted to us the story of Hans Andersen ‘The invisible dress’ with so much fun and humour that we were all rolling with laughter. Suddenly She became very serious and whispered to us: “I don’t think Pavitra is enjoying our laughter very much. So let us keep quiet.” And like a little girl She folded Her arms and began watching the marching seriously. All this playfulness and mischief of the Mother helped ...
... relation comes from within by itself. It manifests itself in both as an ideal oneness – oneness in mind, oneness of the soul, oneness of self. That relation is Shanta, full of peace, wide, pure – pavitra. In it there is no trace of vital lust and physical craving. There is also possible a relation of Purusha and Shakti between man and woman. But that relation is not social, it is not ordinary. ...
... in the Ashram increased from about 25 in 1926 to about 80 two years later. Prominent among the earlier sadhaks were Nolini, Amrita, Datta, Rajangam, Purani, Champaklal, Kanai, Barindra, Pujala1, Pavitra, Chandrasekharam and Anilbaran Roy. Not long after the Siddhi Day, there came - some for the first time, some for good - ardent spirits such as Dyuman, Janet and Vaun , McPheeters, Daulat and K ...
... He reads your books and understands them too. He had sent his wife's photo; she resembles me. André had also written to me that she very much resembles me. 25 When André arrived in the evening, Pavitra told him that the Mother was expecting him in the room in Golconde where he was to stay for some time. It was quite dark when he reached Golconde, and he hastily climbed two storeys and then, "in the ...
... of the same evening. Once in a way there are quick exchanges, as for example on 30 September when the discussion turns on the Theory of Relativity: What is the theory of relativity? Pavitra! Will you please explain that to these children? It means that the description of the universe varies with each observer - to put it in one sentence. Is that all! Why is there ...
... CHAPTER 42 The Next Future I The Great Secret, 1 subtitled "Six Monologues and a Conclusion", was conceived and written by the Mother with the collaboration of Nolini, Pavitra, Andre and Pranab. The Mother visualised a situation of extreme limit, as it were on the edge of time. A ship carrying six famous men indifferent spheres of life, and an unknown young man, who are ...
... echoing deep within my heart. The Mother smiled sweetly at me, cast a significant look as if She had accepted my prayer and keeping that sweet smile on Her face, She moved on towards the car where Pavitra-da was waiting for Her, next to the verandah. The Mother got into the car and proceeded to the Tennis-ground. Some people around me Wished me Bonne Fête, some others, keeping the sweet memory of the ...
... night, I would go and stand next to Nirod-da's room beside the door leading to the staircase, in order to have one final darshan of Her. On my birthday too, I went and stood there. A while later, Pavitra-da drove the Mother back to the Ashram. Getting down from the car, She went straight under the covered corridor to Debu's room (Debu is Pranab-da's brother) while all of us waited in a line. Then, ...
... on (1989) An Early Chapter in the Mother's Life (1990) The Mother of Love (3d ed. 1990) Collected Works of Sri T.V.Kapali Sastriar Page 894 Pavitra (St-Hilaire, P.B.) Pasupati Poddar, Vijay Pournaprema (Françoise Morisset) Prasad, Narayan Pujalal Purani, A.B. Reddy, Madhusudan Rishabhchand Rishabhchand and ...
... Sud-Oranais (1902), by Commandant de Pimodan. Page 56 The greatest spiritual sages in India have always been careful in selecting the site which was to become the SEAT of their attainment. Pavitra told me that the renowned French archeologist Jouveau-Dubreuil found evidence that it was on the exact spot where the great Rishi Agastya and his spouse Lopamudra had made their arduous endeavour of ...
... Dikshit's or Rishabchand's instructive readings from Sri Aurobindo's works, or visited Dilip's house to catch the strains of Mira bhajan, or exchanged words or smiles with Nolini, Amrita, Rishabchand, Pavitra, Prithwi Singh, Chandradip, Premanand, Gangadharam, or even if one merely watched the sadhaks at work - perhaps the rolling up or unrolling of mats at meditation time, or the culling and sorting ...
... × Entretiens, 8.29.1956 × Conversations avec Pavitra, p. 156 × Purani, Evening Talks, 12.10.1926. ...
... does not even belong to you, it is the legal possession of the authorities with burial certificates). And it is a fact that Mother had them taught chemistry (with superb laboratories organized by Pavitra), geography and all the rest—but in another way. Everything is in that "another way." "By any method chosen," Sri Aurobindo had said. The Supermind will steal in through any means, even through tr ...
... correct the nervous habit the body has got into of restlessness and not sleeping. For it is a habit that it has contracted and cannot shake off; once it is well broken, it may disappear. Mother will ask Pavitra to send the medicine to Nirod who will prepare it for you and you can take it after the evening meditation and go home and rest. No date I have read the letters. I suppose you can ...
... I had just left, a fairly large snake came out. It was furious. Belligerently it came and headed straight towards the open door, ready to spring at me. Luckily I was alone, neither the driver nor Pavitra were there, otherwise . . . The snake came on and when it had got quite near, I looked closely at it and said, 'What do you want? Why have you come here?' "There was a pause. Then it fell down ...
... Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Pavitra’s Ointment 1950-07-23 An insect had bitten Sri Aurobindo in several places. He asked me to rub the ointment, and as I began rubbing it on the knee, he asked: “Is it Pavitra's or Insectol?” C: “Pavitra's. How do you find it?” Sri Aurobindo: “Oh, works very well.” Rubbing went on from 10 ...
... 2 June 1947 My dear child, Sri Aurobindo sends you his blessings and I join mine with all my love on the occasion of your birthday. I shall see you at Pavitra's place at 6.15 p.m. 2 June 1947 ...
... putting more details; as it is it gives a stronger impression. For my paintings, truly I do not know when I can find time to show them. But perhaps I might put a few of them (the small ones) in Pavitra’s room and you might see them there. My love and blessings 16 June 1939 ...
... Steadiness Satyen The four S— I propose to your realisation: Sincerity Simplicity Straightforwardness Steadiness Chinmayi's C: Consciousness Courage Cheerfulness Continuity Pavitra's P: Peace Purity Patience Perspicacity  My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be ...
... anything? No. 1 All sorts of things are going on.... All right. Sujata had a dream last night. Ah! Page 218 If you like, I'll read what she noted down: "I am in Pavitra's office, standing on the carpet next to his table. I raise my eyes and look down the corridor. It is empty. Then suddenly, all the way at the other end, next to her bathroom, I see Mother appear. She... vases on her left. And she is growing. With each step she grows taller. One after the other, she goes by her chair, the door to the stairway, my lab, and Mother continues to grow. Then the door to Pavitra's room, the door to the terrace, and Mother comes to the office. She crosses the threshold: her head almost touches the top of the door. Mother comes in. She is so tall! Her head now touches the ceiling ...
... and praise it very highly—as if it had been done by somebody else. Her expression, when she was speaking of this portrait, was so happy, indescribable. One day Mother arranged these sketches in Pavitra's room for showing to Ashram artists, most of whom she had called. The next day I mentioned to Mother that Kamala was sad and unhappy. Mother: “Why?” C: “You did not call her to see your paintings ...
... Meditation House it was used only short time. Thereafter anti-mosquito coils were placed at the four corners of his cot. Four small round trays in brass were specially prepared for the purpose in Pavitra's workshop. The coils came in small boxes that were imported by the Mother from France; Prosperity used to issue them to some sadhaks also. The supplies I stopped during war-time. Mother would keep ...
... already there. A swish of the Mother's elegant gown caught my ears. I looked up. Her mouth quivered in a fleeting smile as she crossed the corridor, leaving a trail of her French perfume, and entered Pavitra's (P. B. Saint-Hilaire's) study. The Mother announced the New Year message, first in French and then in English: 1961 . This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call ...
... cartilage!... Anyway... I removed that, and as soon as I had removed it, I said to myself, "You fool! Now it's even more exposed than before!" I looked for a way, and I ran to a corner (in the place of Pavitra's laboratory), found a water tap and put my prawn under the tap. Immediately someone told me (not "someone," the inner voice told me [ laughing ]), "Your water is even dirtier than the cloth!" So the ...
... interested in the Vedas and made a thorough study of Sri Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda and the many Vedic hymns he had translated. One day, from my laboratory, I saw Mother going towards Pavitra's office to give Satprem one of the regular interviews. Often, on her way to him, she would stop to give me a smile or a pat. Not that day. She seemed intent on some thought, her eyes fixed on the flowers ...
... rebirth in Matter, but a strange kind of matter, which has not ceased to amaze me. But my first astonishment, or my first tumble, came earlier, during the first years, when She spoke to me in Pavitra's office, seated in her big carved straight-backed chair, which always reminded me of the throne of the Queen of England. This Mother, She had the air of a queen, and something more. One felt infinitely... × In fact, in the beginning, She did not even want me to note down her words; it took the cunning of a Sioux and Pavitra's complicity to bring in a tape recorder: If we get to the end, then it is not necessary to note anything down, she said, it will be self-explanatory; and if we do not get there, well then there ...
... but also with that "formation of death" in the atmosphere. × André = Mother's son. Only after Pavitra's passing away, in 1969, did Mother try to involve him. A weak man, constantly swayed by everybody. He was Mother's son but also, one forgets too often, his father's son. ...
... the doctors encouraged them in their feeling. Do you know H's idea? He says people have come here not for work but for meditation. NIRODBARAN: He says also that you are increasing his work and Pavitra's by increasing the number of disciples. He is helping you— SRI AUROBINDO: Only helping? I thought he was doing everything! I dare say that if we had not come down into the physical but remained ...
... On January 31, 1969. Amrita was the person in charge of the Ashram's finances. Bharatidi's departure (on November 7, 1968) appears to have acted as a trigger, for it was followed by Amrita's, then Pavitra's (on May 16), then Satyakarma's (Mother's cashier).... This calls to mind Satprem's vision of Sri Aurobindo, several of whose toes had been cut off, that is to say, several people. See Agenda VIII ...
... several years. × In this connection, the reader will read with interest (when they are published) Pavitra's records of evening talks with Sri Aurobindo, in particular the talk of 12 May 1926. × This same ...
... attracted, being itself a symbol of Light. Will this garuda benefit by dying in the Ashram? Mother took special care of it and gave it the best death possible. We hear that Mother saw it from Pavitra's terrace. Was it not fortunate? And will it therefore get the benefit in its next birth? Yes. Sri Aurobindo In the calm sea, on the horizon, I saw a fire whose flames gradually reached ...
... years ago I used to see it over you very much—much more than now. It seems to have moved away, so that's strange. 1 Two years ago, when I was still going downstairs, when I used to see you in Pavitra's office. There was a time when I intervened (it was the time of the Swami's activities and all that). It was over you at that time. But lately... I haven't seen anything special—attacks do come ...
... to maintain her family, but whenever she finds an opportunity, the first thing she does is to send some amount here. There is a rumour in Pondicherry that we have a lot of money stored away under Pavitra's cellar! PURANI: The question of the Ashram's wealth reminds me of X. I wanted some printing-blocks from him and he charged me so heavily that I had to write to Y to explain to X my financial position ...
... × On Thursday 29th May. On the 30th too, mother received no one. This is probably the course of experience that began a little before Pavitra's departure (see conversation of May 17 ). ...
... but even to have a daily glimpse of him when she took up her dish at noon. 14 Early in 1938, she was given a room in a building in Rue Saint Gilles opposite the north-facing balcony adjoining Pavitra's room in the Ashram main building. It was then that she is said to have declared that she would not have her breakfast until she had a darshan of the Mother. The Mother agreed to come to that balcony ...
... put in jail. All right. But those people will live to regret it. The little girl struggled as if she were drowning, you know. She went everywhere—took refuge at the School, took refuge in Pavitra's room, begged G. in tears to intervene. M. was absolutely desperate. Everybody is trying to dissuade them, everybody is scandalized—it's their "right"! Brandishing their right, they grab the girl and ...
... and he would at once faint. Our Ashram Stores had to take care not to give him red hair-oil. Green oil was always given. If by any chance red was handed to him he would be all ready to collapse in Pavitra's arms! He even told me that to look at a red pencil was enough to make him dizzy. I do not know for sure that this ultra-sensitiveness was due directly to his nearly toothless condition, but it seems ...
... Yes, she was right. There was no other way. I offered my whole difficulty to the Mother inwardly and went on as quietly as I could. The next day, at 1 p.m., for the first time I went to Pavitra's room with the Mother's permission to hear her play on the organ. She came in, gave a few looks around, noticed me and sat on her stool and immediately started playing. She was quite absorbed and ...
... While such was Sri Aurobindo's reaction - which was also the Mother's to the Cripps Mission, some of the sadhaks were critical. The day after Cripps' broadcast, there was a discussion in Pavitra's room, and the Mother happening to come that side, joined the group and spoke her mind with supernal calm. Although an exact account is not available, she is reported by one of the group to have ...
... crowd, whether you're there and I am just not seeing you. I could come, but.... No, no! It isn't necessary. I still have five or six days of work left on the book.... Which one? Pavitra's book. It's a huge task. But anyway I feel your Force—otherwise... Good. No, when I don't see you at the balcony, I send the Force to your room, I pack it off to you there! That's exactly ...
... Lalita (now Mrs. Daulat Panday). Mother presented me to notable persons who came to see her and asked me to play before them. Once a few Europeans had come, before whom the Mother asked me to play in Pavitra's room. The Mother herself was not present. But later on I learnt she stood behind the door and listened to my playing, a typical gesture of a mother. She liked my music, especially my extempore ...
... sides simultaneously (or growing dense, if you like). But the forest began in this corridor. —I came down at 9:30 sharp, thinking half an hour would be enough to cross the corridor and get here. [Pavitra's office, where Mother used to meet me.] Apparently not! 6 It was to be like that all the time, right to the end, increasingly and in every detail: dozens and dozens of little individual samples ...
... hold me by the shoulders and concentrate for a while. But the boil just refused to burst. And my body heated up with the rising temperature. One day the Mother told me: “Your body looks like Pavitra’s. There is no receptivity at all. You are like a Transformation tree which has no solid base, whose roots are not deep enough.” At another time She said: “You were born without any vitality ...
... The force which descended is a force of transformation. It will act from the centre now — fully conscious of the movements. .............................. (Here, several pages from Pavitra's notebook were torn) Mother : ... for want of a better word, I would say : several exams — or "tests" if you like. You have passed them all successively and regularly, which shows that you were... of the reason of things. And what is there behind you is your real Self, clothed with all the experiences of a terrestrial life.* * The following note is part of a preceding page torn from Pavitra's notebook : Mother : At the beginning it (the Jiva in question or the real "Self") remained behind. But gradually as your consciousness grew clear, it came close. I spoke to you about it only... occurred. I feel that my mind is deeper, has some deep background behind. I am more and more conscious of the working of the forces in me. But no radical change yet. (The last ten pages of Pavitra's note-book are torn out.) THE END ...
... and he would at once faint. Our Ashram Stores had to take care not to give him red hair-oil. Green oil was always given. If by any chance red was handed to him he would be all ready to collapse in Pavitra's arms! He even told me that to look at a red pencil was enough to make him dizzy." 85 15. Expressions intended to be right but in reality wrong when pressed: Example: There were two ...
... You seem to be unlucky in your outrage whether musical or monstrous. Better luck next time. P.S. Not much time today, so keeping K. P. till tomorrow. 1936 ? Yesterday at Pavitra's I met Mother. [She asked] to sit on a chair—but I sat at her feet and then came back in a delight. Hence this poem [came] forth in a song—then and there in a few minutes. It is in my new metre—with ...
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