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Pavitra ( 1894 - 1969 ) (from the Sanskrit word for 'pure') was one of the very early disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The name was one of Srimati Radharani's 1000 names. He was born Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire in Paris . In 1914 he graduated from the Ècole Polytechnique with a degree in Engineering . He served in the army in World War I as an artillery officer, and after the war worked as a junior engineer in Paris, at the Ministry of transport and communication. He was interested in Occultism , and in 1920 departed for Japan to study Zen Buddhism . In 1924 he left Japan and spend time with Tantric Lama s in Monasteries in North China and Mongolia . In way and merged with her. According to Satprem (see note to "On Pavitra and Pavitra's Death"), Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, large parts of which were destroyed (almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks) by his closest collaborator, with the pretext that it would be "better left unsaid". What was left was published as ''Conversations avec Pavitra''. PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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