Bowing to the basics & the art of drawing Lakshman rekha

[What one does find is an attempt to present Sri Aurobindo to a larger public than has taken an interest in him until now, especially in the West. For this purpose, it is necessary to speak in language that is appropriate for that audience and to take into account some of the attitudes and assumptions of the intended readers, holding back one’s private beliefs to a certain extent. Mohanty knows this perfectly well and has done it in his own books. The Strange Case of Dr. M and Mr. S
by Angiras on Sun 15 Feb 2009 12:40 PM IST Science, Culture and Integral Yoga Permanent Link]

[The next attempt nearly successful but not quite was in Keshavananda Bharati (April 1973) wherein a full Bench of 13 Justices, a narrow majority of the court (7:6) held overruling Golaknath that though all the provisions of the Constitution, including fundamental rights, were amendable, certain "basic and essential features" of the Constitution (left undefined but which included features like secularism, rule of law, independence of the judiciary) could never be amended or abrogated : whether any of the Fundamental Rights could be characterized as part of the basic and essential features of the Constitution was left undecided, one of the Justices comprising the majority (Justice H. R. Khanna) holding that the right to property could in no event be a basic essential feature. VERDICT ON NINTH SCHEDULE Paramountcy of judicial review established
Fali S. Nariman]

No quarrels with "holding back one’s private beliefs to a certain extent" but without impairing the "basic and essential features" erected over a century. [TNM]