A collection of articles by various authors to counter the vicious attack on Sri Aurobindo via a distorted biography 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo' by Peter Heehs
This book is a counter to the vicious attack on Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual stature that came in the form of a hostile biography of him by Peter Heehs entitled The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, published by Columbia University Press in 2008.
Author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
history of
Alok Pandey’s letter to him 419-423
anti-Hinduism 378-80
Ashram Archives personnel vote to prevent his return to the department 34
Ashram connection 55-58
Ashram, dubious motives for coming to 56-57; 60-64
bad temper, incident at the Archives showing his 408-09
contempt of realised beings 341-44
description of him by a colleague 408-10
devotion, distaste for 563
India, no understanding of 338-39; 346-48
Indians, racial prejudice against 346-47
Jayantilal Parekh was fed up with him 409
sadhana; does not mention any teachers 375
sadhana; how it backfired 398-405
spiritual failure 567
Sri Aurobindo’s Adesh compared to Heehs’s adesh 376-77
worship of images and photographs, aversion to 382
books of
Archives & Research magazine, Jugal Kishore Mukherji’s objections to Heehs’s articles in 508-37
Archives & Research magazine, rebuttal of article in 538-46
Bomb in Bengal, discrediting established historians in 87
Bomb in Bengal, errors regarding Jatin Mukherjee in 131-35
Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography, errors regarding Jatin Mukherjee in 135-37
Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography, running down previous biographers in 86
academic fraud
academic qualifications not mentioned 371-72
claims to have read a lot 374-75
controversies, list of previous 63
controversy, track record of courting 32-34; 60-64
copyright violations 37-39
founder of the Ashram Archives was Jayantilal Parekh 390-93
founder of the Ashram Archives, Heehs posing as 15-16, 371, 389-97
freedom of speech should not lead to committing academic fraud 31-32
hagiographers, accuses previous biographers of being 58-59; 64-65; 86; 99
hagiography, accuses Sri Aurobindo’s followers of 344; 348-49
Heehs always tries to disprove what everybody thinks is true 591-93
Heehs as Marcher (combination of Mayo + Archer) 370
Heehs’s intention of showing Sri Aurobindo’s growth from the human to the divine is an outright lie 167-68
Jeffrey Kripal and Peter Heehs, comparison between 18-19
Jeffrey Kripal and Wendy Doniger, wanted to please perverted academicians such as 357
Jeffrey Kripal, his association with the notorious 8-10, 35-37, 62-63; 105-06
Jeffrey Kripal’s sexual twist to spirituality 424-35
leftist historians of India, Heehs follows the line of 605
Michael Murphy, role of 9, 429, 435
objectivity, claim of 98-99
offensive expressions 522-24
Sri Aurobindo’s biography, writing of: how he turned hostile 399-405
Sri Aurobindo’s works, editing of; how he became overconfident 400-01
Sri Aurobindo’s works, Heehs finds great pleasure in finding fault with 105
Symbolic story of a mole (Heehs) who wants to measure a mountain 438-42
writing career and various publications 86-87
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