On 14 January 2016,
the Editor of the FIRSTPOST has referred in passing to the petitioners of the
Scheme Suit in a most disparaging manner in an article titled “SC has shown great foresight in striking against proxy PILs as instruments of intimidation”. As
an admirer of this website, which has dared to take on the likes of Wendy Doniger, it is strange that it has now decided to support one of “Wendy’s
children” – Peter Heehs (read this post). But I hope I can attribute this error
to factual ignorance and unfamiliarity with the recent problems in Sri
Aurobindo Ashram. If that be the case, I would like to point out a few outright
errors in the write-up for the clarification of the larger readership connected
with the FIRSTPOST, which hopefully would set the record right or at
least give us a chance to give our version of events on its website. I quote
from the article:
28 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016
Praise for “The Battle for Sanskrit” by Rajiv Malhotra
“Is
Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?”
For the past sixty
years my primary activity has been to interpret Sanskrit and sanskriti. Indeed,
Malhotra and I are sailing in the same boat. This book provokes a debate
between the ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ of our heritage. It exposes that many
outsiders pretend to be insiders, but their hidden agenda is to convince
ignorant Hindus that the Vedas are myths and that the traditional claims are
nonsensical. They pretend to know our traditions even better than our highest
exponents.
15 Jan 2016
Subramanian Swamy on "Breaking India" by Rajiv Malhotra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKDkjFc1Muc
...full text...
8 Jan 2016
Dismissal of the Scheme Suit in the Supreme Court – by Bireshwar Choudury
The Scheme Suit
filed against the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust has been dismissed on technical
grounds by the Supreme Court of India on 6 January, 2016. Unlike what
the supporters of Peter Heehs and the cronies of the Ashram Trust are
projecting on the Net, the Supreme Court has not exonerated the author of the Lives of Sri Aurobindo. The Scheme Suit has
been dismissed because the case against the Lives
of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs is still pending in the High Court of
Orissa.
4 Jan 2016
Spiritual Distortions – All Life is Yoga! – by Baikunth
There
is a need to define at present what is
not the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, more perhaps than
the need to define what it is. Of
course, the two functions are interdependent and cannot be dealt in an
exclusive manner, for one often defines something by what it is not. But the
mere positive definition leaves out the hidden distortions which you only come
to know after a long period of gestation, and not in a one-hour lecture on the
Integral Yoga, however inspiring it may be. There have been in the past, and
there still are a number of brilliant speakers who mostly fulfil their role in
the positive definition of the Yoga and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother, but very few as yet have sufficiently dwelt on its negative definition,
by which I mean explaining elaborately what
it is not.
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