M P Pandit

M. P. Pandit (1918–1993) was a prolific writer, spiritual teacher, secretary of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and personal secretary to Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as "The Mother". Born on 14 June 1918 in Sirsi, Karnataka, into a migrant Kashmiri Pandit family, he wrote some 150 books and as many articles on the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, social and political thought, science, philosophy, religion, mysticism, and the classical texts and spiritual traditions of India. He was also a student of Sanskrit writer and Vedic scholar Kapali Sastry. He traveled to the West several times and has a number of western students and disciples.