Six More Show-Cause Notices Served by the Trust by General
Editor
[This is the notice issued to Varun Pabrai by
the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. The same has been served to five others who
participated in a silent protest against the Trustees' inaction with regard to
Peter Heehs and his book "Lives of Sri Aurobindo". The same strong
reply of Prof. Kittu Reddy has been sent to the Trustees for all the six
inmates of the Ashram. The message that clearly comes across is that the
inmates of the Ashram have no right to protest but Peter Heehs has the full
liberty to criticise and denigrate Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in their own
Ashram.] … Text of Varun Pabrai's Reply to Manoj Das Gupta
Truth and Facts have the inherent property of being
monolithic. It is the perception of these that have various shades. Each
perception has its purpose as well as its place and it is therefore only
natural that one should be tolerant to each of these perceptions. However, when
one of these singular perceptions tries to mask or take over the Truth and
Facts that it originates from and seeks to impose an exclusive right over it,
that perception inevitably looses its plurality; such a perception then becomes
neither interesting, nor convincing or constructive.
The main news from Matrimandir this month
is about the aftermath of the cyclone Thane that crossed Auroville on the night
of 29th December. This has affected ...
Sri-aurobindo-and-his-followers In time, a whole set of beliefs and rituals began
to be built up around Sri Aurobindo and more so, around The Mother. The death
of each of them caused dismay and disappointment among large sections of the
faithful. Many had grown to believe that some miraculous transformation of the
physical bodies of their Gurus and through them of the disciples themselves was
in the offing. Naturally these devotees were disheartened when this did not
happen in the manner they had come to expect.
Besides, a whole theology began to be developed,
especially because of the extensive records of what Sri Aurobindo and The
Mother had said…This theology not only asserts the Avatarhood or Divine
Incarnation of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, but builds around them a special
cult of worship and devotion…
Like the early Christians whose lives were lived in
hope and anticipation of the Second Coming and the Day of Judgement, the
disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother also believed that the promised
fulfillment of all their hopes and aspirations was imminent. A series of
pronouncements by both Sri Aurobindo and The Mother…certainly contributed to
the sense of constant awe and expectation in the ashram community…
It needs to be acknowledged that though both Sri
Aurobindo and The Mother repeatedly warned against the creation of a cult
around them, they themselves encouraged it in several ways. Sri Aurobindo
himself deified The Mother and vice versa. Sri-aurobindo-and-his-followers.html From The Introduction, The Penguin Sri Aurobindo
Reader, 1999 Edited by Makarand Paranjape, a critical insider. 8:48
PM February
20, 2012 at 2:26 pm
UPSCStudy
Notes: Uniform civil code vs. Right to Religion upscportal.com 17 Feb
2010 – S.P. Mittal vs. Union of India
Chinnappa Reddy, J: In a dissenting opinion said
"the question is not whether Sri Aurobindo refused to claim or denied that
he was founding a new religion or a new school of religious thought but whether
his disciples and community thought so because religion is a matter of belief
and doctrine, concerning the human spirit, expressed overtly in the form of
ritual and worship and since Aurobindo's disciples took Aurobindo's teachings
in that spirit the teachings constituted a distinct religion. 8:08 PM
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