Leaders of a loud and potentially disastrous movement

[We undertake our analysis of the writings of the leaders of a loud and potentially disastrous movement among followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and practitioners or would-be practitioners of their Integral Yoga in a spirit of seriousness, marked not by enmity but by sadness...
The passages quoted in these sections make it clear that Raman Reddy, Ranganath Raghavan, Alok Pandey, Ananda Reddy, Sachidananda Mohanty, Sraddhalu Ranade, Vijay Poddar, Richard Eggenberger, and Kittu Reddy often exhibit the habits of thought and modes of action characteristic of religious fundamentalists. Whether it would be fair to apply the label of “fundamentalist” to all of them, all the time, is another question. Some of these leaders appear in fact to be followers of the others. A case could be made that Mohanty and Eggenberger are simply influenced by men with more far-reaching agendas. Both give little evidence of the ambition that evidently motivates the others...
Recently the conflict between individual freedom and the resistance of the mass mind has risen to an unprecedented level in connection with the book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, by Peter Heehs, an American member of the ashram. The issues are outlined here. Overview IYF Introduction]

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by Vikas on Sat 02 May 2009 09:52 AM IST Profile Permanent Link
There is something about this subject (the lives discussion) that no sooner one touches its periphery one easily slips into a vortex of controversy - its true identity. One is beguiled into it believing one can score a point but ends up only fuelling the centrifuge. I am glad that atleast one side has for the most part stayed away from the infertile intellectual brow-beating and hair-splitting. No amount of intellectual debate can arrive at indisputable truth. Whatever one's position, a contrary position can be pleaded to plausibly by the other. An intellectual conviction of our position is not evidence of it being the best or the true one for us, much less for the world. I think it ought to be very very obvious what ought to be the position for a spiritual seeker in this. (Most humbly stated). But in principle I don't believe it is as facile to discern what helps or retards the manifesting Truth. The Divine ways are inscrutable. Reply]

"Men with far-reaching agendas" vs. "The Divine ways are inscrutable." [TNM]