Letter to the Trustees from Sri Aurobindo Centre, Gandhinagar,
Gujarat from Critique of The Lives by General Editor Dear
Trustees
We
are disciples and devotees of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from Gandhinagar, Gujarat . We are deeply pained to see that the book The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo written by Peter Heehs is not yet disapproved by the Ashram Trust.
It is more than 4 years and the Ashram Trust has failed to act in spirit and action to disapprove the book publicly
and officially and remove Peter Heehs from the Archives
department and the Ashram.
The
book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo written by Peter Heehs is defaming and denigrating the
Mother and Sri Aurobindo and twist their teachings. The managing trustee
himself has accepted this and issued a statement officially. But the Ashram Trust has not acted yet. We are disturbed
by this fact and hence we undersigned disciples demand the following remedies to be done without fail and immediately.
1. Officially
declare that the book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo written by
Peter Heehs is not approved by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Kindly inform us
and other centers of the same.
2. Officially
remove Peter Heehs from the Archives department and from the ashram and inform
everyone concerned about the same.
3. Get
back all the original and archival documents and manuscripts from Peter Heehs
and keep them in safe custody.
4. Stop
harassing people who expose the perverse contents of the book and question the
inaction of the trustees.
5. If
the present trustees cannot do this immediately, we sincerely request them to
step down and give way others to do this with utmost seriousness.
6. Bring new rules and regulations for the Ashram Trust Board.
Appoint Trustees only for 2 or 3 years and by appropriate selection mechanism
7. Bring one Advisory Body to the Trust and Ashram with
representatives from all the centers and sadhana kendras from India
Over
the recent years, plenty of similar appeals have been made to the managing
trustee, from the hands of senior sadhaks and devotees of all shades from far
and near. Yet, all these pleas have fallen on his deaf ears. Either he is
callous like a piece of stone, or far too strongly into his nefarious collusion
with Peter and his infamous brood, to be able to back out and have the
conviction and courage to take the justified actions in the interest of the
Ashram. In either of these cases, the only remedy is to replace the existing
incumbents with a new body, who would be capable of taking a fresh look and
take up the due actions in the interest of the Ashram and its vast circle of
devotees.
May the Mother's FORCE help remove this hurdle in Her work.
May the Mother's FORCE help remove this hurdle in Her work.
Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother - Sandeep commented on The genesis of Sri Aurobindo's superman.
Sri
Aurobindo used to say that the Vedic sages had discovered the Supramental path.
BTW, just as you seem frustrated that more people are not aware of Vallalar,
similarly there are people who are frustrated that more people do not
understand Sri Aurobindo. In India
In
general, the field of comparative spirituality is rife with misunderstandings
created by adhoc mixtures and correspondence tables. There are people who
compare Plotinus with Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi with Sri Aurobindo,
and so on and so forth. It all becomes very confusing in the end so I rarely
venture into investigating these similarities. To read Vallalar's works in
original Tamil would require me to learn Tamil, which is not feasible right now
given other constraints. However, I do intend to check out the links you gave
above. Ramalingam is mentioned in the Agenda
July 22, 1970 and Agenda
July 11, 1970
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