Sunday, September 05, 2010

Peter Heehs, having mentioned something positive, proceeds to concoct a negative side

The following paragraph is from a booklet by Peter Heehs entitled Sri Aurobindo on Hinduism and published by the Sri ...
In the book “The Lives of Sri Aurobindo”, Peter Heehs observes that in the psychiatry and clinical psychology ...
He had asked Peter Heehs to stay away from the Archives a few months ago, but did not officially assign work in any ...
Peter Heehs ISBN-10: 0195669142 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780195669145 (paper) Oxford University Press, 2004. Inside Terrorism Bruce Hoffman ISBN-13: 9780231126984 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780231126991 (paper) Columbia University Press, 2006 ...
Violent and Non-Violent Modes of Resistance in India's Freedom ... 
10 Aug 2010 by debbanerji
In this article, Peter Heehs compares the politics of independence of Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. In his wide-ranging consideration, he also brings in Subash Chandra Bose and Nelson Mandela. What would Mandela say to the differences of ...
Mirror of Tomorrow :: Sraddhalu Ranade writes to Manoj Das 
6 Aug 2010 by RY Deshpande
Can you imagine the pain and anguish that 400 pages of Peter Heehs' abuse of Sri Aurobindo have caused the entire Ashram community! Have you written at least a 1-page letter to him? Your words would surely have made a difference, ...
Savitri Era Open Forum: Sri Aurobindo's “double meaning” theory of ... 
4 Aug 2010 by Tusar N Mohapatra
Sandeep Joshi a.k.a “Auroman”: “In many places in the book, Peter Heehs, having mentioned something positive, proceeds to concoct a negative side. Some of these negatives are phony because they have been inferred by craftily using Sri ...
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, Peter Heehs, great Academic books 
2 Aug 2010 by Katinka Hesselink - Spirituality
Reviewed in the West as the only decent biography of Sri Aurobindo Goshe, from politician, to poet and guru. This guy lived a fascinating life and Peter Heehs describes as many aspects of it as the Sri Aurobindo archives can.
boehmer and morton on terror and the postcolonial « settler ... 
28 Jul 2010 by edwardcav
Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal (Peter Heehs, Independent Scholar). 7. Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime (Alex Tickell, University of Portsmouth). ...
A critique of the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs ... 
7 Jun 2010 by Raman Reddy
With the new-found job in the Ashram and the prestigious title of archivist of one of the most notable figures of modern India, Peter Heehs without any known academic qualification or experience, took to writing about Indian history. ...
Thoughts.com Blogs - ASHRAM RULES X-RAYED 
26 May 2010 by nnandhivarman
The worst of all is to allow few foreign Nationals like Peter Heehs and Richard Hartz to bring changes to Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's spiritual works. Besides they allowed highly corrupt in-charges like Manindra Pal, ...
Savitri Era Religious Fraternity: Uttara Yogi would settle in ... 
2 Apr 2010 by Tusar N Mohapatra
But he will not send notice to Peter Heehs for insulting Sri Aurobindo and for selling research from the Ashram Archives to make personal profit. Instead he spends Ashram's money' for Peter's defence in the courts, to protect the man . ...
nandivarman's blog » Blog Archive » AUROBINDO ASHRAM DEVOTEES WASH ... 
16 Mar 2010 by Nandhi Varman
“Whereas on careful consideration of materials place on record, it appears to the State Government that the book titled as The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, written by Mr. Peter Heehs and published by Columbia University Press, New York, ...
India's (Jewish) Mother - by Michelle Goldberg > Tablet Magazine ... 
11 Mar 2010 by admin
The book, published by Columbia University Press, was actually written by the ashram's chief archivist, Peter Heehs, but it takes a historical rather than devotional approach, enraging Aurobindo hardliners. ...
ASHRAM CAUGHT IN CONTROVERSY « DRAVIDA PERAVAI 
23 Jan 2010 by nandhivarman
Mr. Peter Heehs is an American historian living in Pondicherry for more than 35 years and is in charge of Aurobindo Ashram Archives. One bold lady Ms. Sureka Jain had filed a Writ Petition [W.P.24599 of 09] in the High Court of Madras ...
The International Campaign Against Anarchist Terrorism, 1880-1930s ... 
31 Dec 2009 by @ndy
See Peter Heehs, “Foreign Influences on Bengali Revolutionary Terrorism 1902-1908,” Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 3 (1994) and The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900-1910 (Delhi: Oxford UP, 1993). ...
Commentaries on THE FUTURE REALIZATION: Stop Scapegoating Peter Heehs 
2 Nov 2009 by Robert E. Wilkinson
You could not find a better description of how Alok Pandey and others have experienced Peter Heehs' destructive influence but what they fail to realize is that Heehs is not the CAUSE of this ongoing controversy but merely one of the ...
Circumsolatious: Sri Aurobindo - the Lotus and the Avatar 
11 Oct 2009 by Lori Tompkins
Chapter 9 of her latest book Secrets of the Earth – Questions and Answers on the Line of Ten Avatars of the Vedic Tradition, actually addresses Mr. Chaki's emphatic rejection of Sri Aurobindo's avatarhood as well as Peter Heehs' ...
Tibetibaba | Flickr - Photo Sharing! 
10 Jul 2009 by nobody@flickr.com (indiariaz)
Heehs, Peter, “The bomb in Bengal: the rise of revolutionary terrorism in India, 1900-1910”, Oxford University Press. (edition 1993). p. 62. Page available: [16] Gupta, Gopal Dass, “Glossary and index of proper names in Sri Aurobindo's ...
Savitri Era: Alok Pandey and Sraddhalu Ranade are resorting to ... 
16 Jun 2009 by Tusar N Mohapatra
It is utterly shameful that luminaries like Alok Pandey and Sraddhalu Ranade are resorting to subterfuge with regard to their involvement in the court cases filed against Peter Heehs. That they are confident to get away with it in full ...
Plain & Simple: Kittu Reddy's support for an aggressive Hindu ... 
17 Apr 2009 by Tusar N Mohapatra
Peter Heehs is a historian and a practitioner of the Integral Yoga. He has resided at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram since 1971. The same year, he began working under Jayantilal Parekh, who had been asked by the Mother to start an archives. ...
Gandhi praised, Aurobindo erased? « Indian Realist 
14 Apr 2009 by sanjaychoudhry
Peter Heehs was an ignorant person because Sri Aurobindo NEVER was aware of his brother making bombs. And more importantly Gandi was a politician and Sri Aurobindo was a spiritualist who had no ambition to be famous or wish that world ...
Aurora Mirabilis: Dr. R.L. Kashyap speaks on The Background for ... 
25 Mar 2009 by Tusar N Mohapatra
by Raman Reddy The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs was published by the Columbia University Press in New York in April 2008. A couple of months later, a few copies of the book turned up at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, ...
Peter Heehs's Betrayal « Skylight 
21 Mar 2009 by Tusar N. Mohapatra
The rejection of this book is equivalent to rejecting the vision of how the Supramental Descent continues to evolve, progress, succeed, uplift and illuminate the world. > Peter Heehs'sBetrayal and an Ashram in Upheaval > 5:58 PM ...
The lives of Sri Aurobindo | FRANCOIS GAUTIER 
5 Mar 2009 by speekout
Peter Heehs, an American historian, who lives in the Sri Aurobindo ashram, Puducherry, has attempted to recount the life of 20th century's greatest avatar, in The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Columbia University Press, May 2008). ...
Consent to be......nothing!: That was Her way and that is also the ... 
14 Feb 2009 by கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி
Peter Heehs என்பவர் எழுதிய ஒரு புத்தகம் "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" ஆசிரமவாசிகள், ஆரோவில் வாசிகள். ஸ்ரீ அரவிந்தர், ஸ்ரீ அன்னையை ஏற்றுக் கொண்ட ...
Gaza: The Indian Example By Radhika Sainath 
27 Jan 2009
Official government reports note 210 "revolutionary outrages" and at least 1000 "terrorists" involved in more than 101 attempted attacks between 1906 and 1917 in the state of Bengal alone (see Peter Heehs, "Terrorism in India During the ...
The book is said to contain objectionable remarks against The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The lives of Sri Aurobindo – is written by Peter Heehs, an American who is one of the founders of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives in Puduchery. ...
Peter Heehs. Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience. (New York: NYU Press, 2002), 5; Vaudeville (1974), 39. Dharwadker, 77; kabir: Mystic Philosopher 1398-1518. Retrieved October 20, 2008.; [2]. ...
2) In fact, the tampering of Savitri and Peter Heehs's attitude of writing agaisnt Sri Aurobindo in a derogatory manner were questioned by many senior sadhaks who include Jugal Kishore Mukherjee, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya and some ...
The recent events surrounding the publication by Columbia University Press of a new biography of him by Peter Heehs, who has written other scholarly work on Indian Religion and Indian History for publishers as notable as Oxford ...
Getting beyond the Conventions of Biography – and Hagiography Too: A Post by Peter Heehs· cover The Lives of Sri Aurobindo The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. How do you write about a man who is ...
If you want to understand the personality and multi faced thoughts of Sri Aurobindo before getting into his philosophy you can read "The Lifes of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs. Indra Sen, btw, is the first person to coin the terms ...
by Peter Heehs - Religion - 2002 - 600 pages. Antonio Rigopoulos, The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Shirdi Sai Baba Homepage ... Limited preview - About this book - ...
There is a great book out called "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs for those who are interested in really understanding Sri Aurobindo's life and thought. Also, the Science, Culture and Integral Yoga is a good source of ...
Since Joytirmaya brings up the views of Peter Heehs to support his claim that he gives Sri Aurobindo a balanced treatment. I will add that biographers and historians - even good ones - are forced to select, disregard, and interpret ...

Peter Heehs is a historian based in Pondicherry. A member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library, he is part of the editorial team that is bringing out the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo in 37 volumes. ...

2 comments:

  1. I am really doubtful that he is a part of an editorial team.

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  2. SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM TRUST

    It is unfortunate that certain rumours are being circulated that the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust is in some way endorsing, supporting or promoting the book "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" by Peter Heehs. We would like to re-iterate what has been our consistent stand since October 2008 namely:

    “Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust does not approve and has nothing to do with the book entitled "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" written by Peter Heehs and Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust is not in any way responsible for the contents or the interpretations of the material contained therein....”



    This is to re-affirm that the stand of the Ashram Trust has been consistent and has remained unchanged. The book is not sold from any department of the Ashram.

    The Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust is fully aware of its responsibilities and its actions are determined keeping in view the vision and values it is meant to uphold.

    For The Board of Trustees
    [Signed: Manoj Das Gupta]
    Seal: MANOJ DAS GUPTA
    Managing Trustee
    Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust
    Pondicherry
    23.09.2010

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