Nice programme on the Peter Heehs issue on
NDTV. Exposes the fundamentalist completely! 8:49
PM - 2 Apr 12 Check out the hateful, illiterate, fundamentalist reactions
to my story on Peter Heehs: Don-t-expel-US-historian-govt-told 8:14 PM - 2 Apr Kamayani @Kracktivist - @gchikermane we have become a
totally intolerant democracy latest victim heehs #foe @anjakovacs. @koobear @Vidyut
India 's is a democracy and
Gandhi India
Debashish Banerji
As an Indian and a follower of Sri Aurobindo, I feel
it is really deplorable if what this report says is true about the denial of
visa extension to Peter Heehs. Not only is it a defeat to the freedom of
expression which is one of the pillars of the Indian constitution, but it is a
clear case of fraudulent action since Heehs' book has nothing of a
"blasphemous" nature. It seems to be a set-up and the carrying out of
unconstitutional decisions pressed into effect in a underhand manner.
Bharat Singh
Mr Banerji. You are mistaken to think that Freedom
of Expression is absolute under Indian constitution. And if it were not there
would have been no banned books in India
Vinita
DB
Thanks for being a sane voice in an ocean of
xenophobia. It seems from most of the other posts that a politicized divide is
being created. "Secular historians" like Ramchandra Guha and Romila
Thapar are being clubbed with sensationalist western academicians like Wendy
Doniger and Jeffrey Kripal, and Peter Heehs is being thrown into this league. I
guess on the other side are ardent Hindutva flag-bearers. An enlightened
spirituality is all but forgotten in the middle of this. It is also clear that
these violent voices have not read Heehs' book or else they have no reading
skills.
Gopal Ji
Even after staying in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for
decades Peter Heehs does not exhibit the most basic understanding of Yoga as
revealed by Sri Aurobindo. His insolent foolishness may be tolerable but his
present biographical work on the great spiritual master is full of falsehood,
though interwined in scholarly language and thus capable of perpetuating this
falsehood in the name of freedom of expression.
His close association with western scholars like
Jeffrey Kripal and Wendy Doniger, who are famous for maligning Indian
spirituality, is a proof in itself that there are sinister motives behind his
so called scholarly work. Now he has new sympathisers like Romila Thapar and
Ramchandra Guha who, with their unsympathetic, shallow and surface
understanding of India
This journalist, Mr. Chikarmane, seems to be very
eager to take the side of all those who have attacked the symbols of our
spirituality and culture under the pretext of defending freedom of expression.
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have never been
"proponents of democratic values and free speech". In fact, many
biographers wrote so many dirty and ignorant books about Sri Aurobindo that he
decided to write his own biography, "On Himself". If taxi driver
Heens did not read it, we may ask why. If an inmate of the Ashram does not follow
the guru's directions, such an inmate is free to go back to New York
GK Gokhale
"If taxi driver Heehs did not read it, we may
ask why." If a journalist of a prestigious paper is not aware of it, he
should disappear from the scene.
Today we are publishing the interviews of Paul
Richard conducted by Dilip Kumar Roy. In 1927 Dilip Kumar Roy was invited by
the Gramophone Company to make a few records in New York France
I urge everyone reading this to get rid of their
heteronormative and gender essentialist biases, and to envision a world that is
beyond gender and even sex. I also urge everyone reading this to consider how
important homosexuality and gender non-conformity are for this process.
Anyway, back to the topic of the post. I have no
gender identity, so by default I am in a genderless headspace. I did not like
the experience of being in either of those two gender identity headspaces: I
found it too egoistic and restricting. I think genderlessness is the way of the
future: this is certainly consistent with the Integral Yoga view of the New
Age. Even the Quran prophecies that men and women will become like each other
before the end of days. And it is hardly a coincidence that the radical
feminist and gay liberation movements happened after the Shakti entered the
Earth’s Inconscient, and the world was infused with a certain atmosphere due to
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s spiritual work. People were filled with ideas of
liberation and love, but the ideas were misguided and expressed themselves
stupidly and carnally due to the stupidity and carnality of the people
themselves. Anyway, what many envisioned in those days — that a new world was
about to come, the Kingdom
of God
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WORKSHOP (23rd to 25th of March 2012) Dear friends,
You will be happy to note that Sri Aurobindo
Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC), a project of Sri Aurobindo Society,
Pondicherry, is going to hold a 3-day workshop (from morning 9am to evening
5pm) on Sanskrit at Sri Aurobindo Society, Adchini (very close to SA Ashram)
from FriSun, 23-25 March, 2012. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr.
Sampadananda Mishra, Director, SAFIC.
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