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Pavitra: Conversations with Sri Aurobindo: Books
From December 1925 to November 1926 Philippe Barbier Saint Hilaire, later known as Pavitra, held regular private conversations with Sri Aurobindo that centred on the practice of Yoga and Pavitra’s own sadhana. This book is a record of these conversations and some he had with the Mother toward the end of that year. It also includes several of the evening talks, in which Sri Aurobindo conversed informally with a small group of disciples, on such subjects as science and occultism which especially interested Pavitra. The book’s introduction is a talk given in 1964 by Pavitra in which he recounts his early life experiences and the events which led him to come to Pondicherry.
A new consciousness is seeking expression in you. In India there are people, Yogis, who can help you in this and give you a new birth. There will be difficulties in finding them, because you do not speak their language and they are often hard to approach. Still this is one of the solutions before you. This spiritual consciousness will give you Mukti. Personally, my Yoga would be completed if my goal were liberation. Mukti is only the first part. The second is to bring down the Light into all the instruments, to make them perfect and to become an embodiment of Truth. The universal Truth and Power will act through you as an instrument. Some persons are more or less unconscious instruments of the Shakti, but it is a question of being perfectly conscious.
Sri Aurobindo told this and more to a young seeker from France, during what was probably their second meeting, on 18 December 1925. The Master said at the end of the day’s not-too-long conversation, “Well, if you want to try, you may stay.”
“I fell at his feet. He gave me his blessing and it was over. You see, a whole chapter of my life had come to an end. The search, the search for the source of light, the search for the one who would lead me to the Truth was over.”
A new consciousness is seeking expression in you. In India there are people, Yogis, who can help you in this and give you a new birth. There will be difficulties in finding them, because you do not speak their language and they are often hard to approach. Still this is one of the solutions before you. This spiritual consciousness will give you Mukti. Personally, my Yoga would be completed if my goal were liberation. Mukti is only the first part. The second is to bring down the Light into all the instruments, to make them perfect and to become an embodiment of Truth. The universal Truth and Power will act through you as an instrument. Some persons are more or less unconscious instruments of the Shakti, but it is a question of being perfectly conscious.
Sri Aurobindo told this and more to a young seeker from France, during what was probably their second meeting, on 18 December 1925. The Master said at the end of the day’s not-too-long conversation, “Well, if you want to try, you may stay.”
“I fell at his feet. He gave me his blessing and it was over. You see, a whole chapter of my life had come to an end. The search, the search for the source of light, the search for the one who would lead me to the Truth was over.”
165 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2003
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July 19, 2021
I was surprised to find out that Aurobinodo was an Advaita Vedanti. The book begins straight away with attaining Turiya state or Nirvikalpa Samadhi and focuses on that for the most part.
I had mistakenly believed Sri Aurobinodo to be some sort of a cultural activist. The book begins with the concepts of Prakriti and Purusha, covering parts of Shankara's Adhyasa Bhashya, though most of it is in English and Aurobinodo hardly mentions those traditional terms.
I had mistakenly believed Sri Aurobinodo to be some sort of a cultural activist. The book begins with the concepts of Prakriti and Purusha, covering parts of Shankara's Adhyasa Bhashya, though most of it is in English and Aurobinodo hardly mentions those traditional terms.
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