tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492774704026276830.post8673443111968689014..comments2023-10-25T12:50:37.376+05:30Comments on A critique of "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs and its consequences in the Ashram life: Ashram Trust "does not approve" of TLOSA book!General Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08357387091233027707noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492774704026276830.post-20172779783606837532010-10-01T07:39:39.670+05:302010-10-01T07:39:39.670+05:30The motivation behind this announcement is evident...The motivation behind this announcement is evident in the very first words “It is unfortunate certain rumours are being circulated ... [about] the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust”. Yes, the trustees have finally found it necessary to break their “dignified silence” now that their own good fortune is at stake. But, as Alok has very rightly pointed out here (http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2010/9/25/4639610.html#1359704), this little personal misfortune of theirs is trifling compared to the vast misfortune that they have heaped upon themselves by tacit complicity in circulating rumors from the Ashram about Sri Aurobindo Himself.<br /><br />The trustees need to conduct themselves not as ego-motivated authorities concerned solely with quashing rumours about THEMSELVES, but as true children of the Mother. They need to do everything in their considerable power to actively oppose, rather than to protect and to act as passive enablers of PH, who is spreading not just one but many distorting rumours and gossiping titbits about Sri Aurobindo throughout the whole world and not just in the Ashram, and that too for a long time to come and not just temporarily, with fraudulent affectations to great authority and skilfully employing the subtle tactics of evasive language and verbal sophistry. If and ONLY if they genuinely do that can they really be considered to be acting as the Ashram Trust. Otherwise, in this critical crisis facing the Ashram, vishame samupasthitam, they are neither acting as “the Ashram Trust”, nor is the stand taken by them the stand of “the Ashram Trust”.<br /><br />One would still hope against hope that the trustees even now, after all this time and needless aggravation world over, can act as “the Ashram Trust” and stand up to denounce unequivocally this attempt to distort Sri Aurobindo’s Image via hostile rumour-mongering and gossiping which masquerades as “history”, and that they do so with as much conviction and determination that they have displayed in clearing their own name as trustees. This might still avert the real tāndav nritya. Hopefully, their next proclamation will help clear all the misconceptions and rumours that PH has been busily spreading about the Lord. But that would necessitate sacrificing their dearly-held consistency and abandoning their obstinate “stand” that they have nothing to do with the book, which essentially amounts to saying that while they will exert themselves to quash rumours about their own actions/inaction as Ashram trustees, they are perfectly fine with rumours and gossip being spread about Sri Aurobindo. This will certainly be very painful for the ego, but it should help bring to the front the real Ashram Trustee who is always within them, as it is in each one us, the true child of the Mother.Govindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02553294084255808629noreply@blogger.com