- This blog enumerates the errors found in the "Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs. Most readers do not know what the primary sources contain so they mistakenly assume that the text is without errors.
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- History of Kidney trouble-page 406
- Sexual union dignified by marriage – page 318
- Romantic Relationship – page 326
- His followers – page 277, preface, epilogue
- Undermining the Adesh page 204
- Disciples used to plagiarize – page 394
- Defaming the Ashram community – page 373
- Demeaning devotion – page 343
- Misleading remarks page 328
- Poems after 1943 are uncharacteristically dark – page 398
- On the Mother’s trip to Japan – page 260 and 319
- Madame Theon’s revelations are bizarre – page 253
- Amplifying Jitendral Lal Banerji’s negative remark : pp 101-102
- Seed-tree metaphor : page 203
- Distortion of the episode involving Vivekananda’s guidance to Sri Aurobindo in Alipore jail (page 178)
- Secret of the Veda – page 266
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Secret of the Veda – page 266
In many places in the book, Peter Heehs, having mentioned something positive, proceeds to concoct a negative side. Some of these negatives are phony because they have been inferred by craftily using Sri Aurobindo’s words against him. By that I mean he takes Sri Aurobindo’s quotes out-of-context to potentially mislead uninformed readers. There is a certain procedure which has to be followed in order to uncover such deceptions. When you find a negative remark, you should look up the citation and read the original source. Then you must search for alternative sources, at which point you will realize that the negative remark is not really negative at all. Continue reading
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