Heehs imbroglio owes its exacerbation to tendentious discourse

[Re: Rationalism and the yogic life
by Debashish on Sun 19 Oct 2008 10:10 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link The analysis hardly merits consideration, but given the surprising group conformity, it would be good to pay some attention to it. In the passage quoted above, the author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo presents Sri Aurobindo's claims as "the result of psychological instabilities"!? He "force us to accept his rational and Freudian explanation of imbalance"!? What kind of reading skill does this imply?]

[Re: Auroville Today Interview with Peter Heehs
by Debashish on Fri 17 Oct 2008 11:13 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link SCIY requires a minimum standard of reading and writing skills from its posters. Posts which are unintelligible or incoherent will be automatically deleted. There is also a requirement of civil speech. Using the forum as a pulpit to hurl insults ("He is an upstart..") is not premitted here. If there are any more posts which violate these criteria, they will be deleted.]

[Re: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: the aggrieved victim
by Debashish on Fri 31 Oct 2008 11:05 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link SCIY is not interested in opening up these cans of worms because they serve no purpose of further illumination of the issues involved. If anyone wants to slug it out about these specific issues, please consider posting a private email address to which all further inquiries or views regarding "changes of text of Sri Aurobindo's original writing" or "accessibility of archival materials" or "incompetency of the trust" or "greater wisdom of some people of Pondy" can be addressed. SCIY cannot offer itself as a forum for these issues. Those who wish to believe these statements are free to do so. Those who wish to find out more and come to their own conclusions and those who wish to contest these issues, need to find other forums for their address. DB Reply]

[Re: In Defence of the “Extracts from The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs”—Raman Reddy
by RY Deshpande on Sat 03 Jan 2009 05:43 PM IST Profile Permanent Link
If there are any further comments on this post, let these be issue-based, and not individual- or institution-based. RYD Reply]

Much of the Heehs imbroglio owes its exacerbation to tendentious discourse. The greatest pragmatic challenge before Integral Yoga presently is to evolve an attitude for sticking to honest expression. [TNM]