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Aurobindo Ashram Inmates Divided Over Content. Bosco
Dominique TNN Puducherry:
For the first time in the history of Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, a section of inmates launched a public protest on Sunday against the
ashram management.
They protested against the failure to take action against fellow inmate Peter Heehs for making “denigrating and unacceptable remarks” on Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa, better known as the Mother, in his biography on the philosopher. Even as 12 inmates staged a silent protest, another section of inmates defended the book saying, it had received favourable reviews from experts in Aurobindo studies and the ashram “should not bow to pressure from fundamentalists”.
The month-long protest between 8am and 11am daily. in front of the office of the Sri Aurobindo Trust is to seek the dismissal of the present group of trustees of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and immediate expulsion of Peter Heehs from the ashram community. The protesters insist that the trust publicly declare that the book is factually incorrect and does not represent its views and that Peter Heehs has abused his position at the archives. They also demanded that the trust withdraw the copyright permission given to Columbia University Press.
The book titled ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’ published by Columbia University Press is available in theUnited States India
A review by Choice, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries and a division of the American Library Association summed up the book as ‘essential’ for graduate students, faculty, researchers and general readers. The rival group of inmates contend that the ashram gives complete freedom to its inmates and everyone has the liberty to like or dislike a book. They argued that the protesters have not read the book but rather an unrepresentative set of “extracts” and have misunderstood certain things.
They protested against the failure to take action against fellow inmate Peter Heehs for making “denigrating and unacceptable remarks” on Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa, better known as the Mother, in his biography on the philosopher. Even as 12 inmates staged a silent protest, another section of inmates defended the book saying, it had received favourable reviews from experts in Aurobindo studies and the ashram “should not bow to pressure from fundamentalists”.
The month-long protest between 8am and 11am daily. in front of the office of the Sri Aurobindo Trust is to seek the dismissal of the present group of trustees of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and immediate expulsion of Peter Heehs from the ashram community. The protesters insist that the trust publicly declare that the book is factually incorrect and does not represent its views and that Peter Heehs has abused his position at the archives. They also demanded that the trust withdraw the copyright permission given to Columbia University Press.
The book titled ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’ published by Columbia University Press is available in the
A review by Choice, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries and a division of the American Library Association summed up the book as ‘essential’ for graduate students, faculty, researchers and general readers. The rival group of inmates contend that the ashram gives complete freedom to its inmates and everyone has the liberty to like or dislike a book. They argued that the protesters have not read the book but rather an unrepresentative set of “extracts” and have misunderstood certain things.
Mercifully, nobody has yet called for it to be banned but
it's still early .....You can add to the list 'The Lives of Sri
Aurobindo' by Peter Heehs.
The issue over the controversial book on Sri
Aurobindo took an ugly turn when a few of the devotees who were staging dharna
outside the Ashram Trust allegedly tried to “prevent” one of the seniormost
members of the Trust from entering the office and ...
150 inmates of Aurobindo Ashram on three-day dharna IBNLive.com - Feb 26, 2012 PTI | 11:02 PM, Feb 26, 2012 Puducherry, Feb 26
(PTI)
About 150 inmates of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram here
today embarked upon a three-day dharna demanding that trustees managing the
ashram be dismissed immediately for their "failure" to protect its ...
The Sri Aurobindo Ashram here is facing an
embarrassing turmoil with a section of the inmates and devotees launching a
three-day protest against the trustees of the ashram for their alleged failure
to take action against inmate and US ...
Sri
Aurobindo, Heehs and the fragility of faith Hindustan Times (blog) - 22
Feb 2012
This time, it's Peter Heehs, an American
historian, who has who has lived in and served the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for 41
years, set up the Ashram's Archives ...
comments on Sri Aurobindo in his book 'The Lives
of Sri Aurobindo', the disciples of Sri Maa and Sri Aurobindo today urged ... notification
in 2009 hadbanned the book published by Colombia University Press, New
York.
Gita
will not be banned, now how about some introspection? : Just ... blogs.hindustantimes.com
› Just Faith 21 Dec 2011
2008: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter
Heehs ... Were it not for these bans, Muslims would riot on
Rushdie's blasphemous work, the ...
Ban the ban telegraph india
The republic
of India New York
P.B. Saha,Calcutta
P.B. Saha,
The Odisha High had banned the sale and
distribution of the controversial book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo"
and the home department of the state government ...
Need To Ban The Book 'The Lives Of Sri ...
on 12 August, 2010 Lok Sabha Debate Indian Kanoon - Lok Sabha Debates
MATTERS UNDER RULE-377: Need To Ban The Book The
Lives Of Shri ... on 12 August, 2010 Title: Need to ban the book The lives of Sri
Aurobindo written by a US
SHRI AMARNATH PRADHAN (SAMBALPUR): Sri Aurobindo is
one of the worthiest sons of India
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