We are a group of individuals who have come together
to initiate a service of providing information that is as authentic,
verifiable, balanced and as truthful as possible.
We prefer not to be named and identified, not
because of a lack of courage or straightforwardness, but because we believe
that this website belongs to all those who want to make the effort to find and
get closer to the Truth. This website is therefore an open source and
belongs to all those to participate in this effort.
Moreover, we believe that the moment identities are
revealed people look for motives and agendas and one gets stereotyped. We may
get categorised as pro-establishment or anti-rebels or seekers of favours or
whatever. Somebody will dismiss our work based on our identity, or we will
create enemies. Instead we want people to focus on the information and the work
and not the people doing it.
Lastly, we do not claim to posses the Truth, but we
believe that we can help remove those obstacles that come in the way of or
obfuscate Truth - especially those obstacles that are in the form of
deliberate misrepresentation and distortion of facts or the creation of myths –
by providing more reliable, accurate and complete information.
Introduction:
Introduction to Dubious Websites:
As the internet is
becoming increasingly accessible to a larger number of people, a
plethora of websites, blogs, internet discussion groups, etc., related to Sri
Aurobindo, The Mother, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the larger Aurobindonian
collective are also ever-increasingly springing up. As a result of that a large
amount of information on these subjects and related matters is being propagated
through cyberspace.
While many benefit from the availability of such
information, there is however a flip-side to the ease with
which information, especially inaccurate, erroneous and even deliberately
misleading information can be created and diffused on the internet.
Because like in everything else, there are a few
individuals or small groups of like-minded people who are more interested and
keen to promote their personal ideas, views and opinions as well as their
personal agendas and interests, which more often than not go contrary to the
ideology that they claim to espouse. In fact, such individuals land up
using an ideology – to which they may have an affinity or dedication – also as
a prop to promote themselves. While lip-service is given to the ideology, it is
in reality given a back seat as their personal preferences take over, determine
and drive all their actions.
The evident and inevitable outcome of the mixing of
ideologies with personal preferences is: confusion. This is made worse with the deliberate creation
and diffusion of misinformation with the intent to confuse and muddle issues.
Thus unfortunately in recent times, the names of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, The
Sri Aurobindo Ashram as well as the Aurobindonian collective have found
themselves surrounded by rumours, myths, even blatant lies all designed to
promote an individual’s or a small group’s personal preferences.
As the internet has provided a convenient platform
for the diffusion of all kinds of information, this blog attempts to verify,
analyze, demystify and critique some of the information, especially
that which is dubious, inaccurate, misleading, biased, etc., that is being
propagated on some of the websites and blogs that associate themselves to Sri
Aurobindo, The Mother, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Aurobindonian
collective.
