I have come to the conclusion, nonetheless, that The Lives of Sri Aurobindo is too often reductive and far from adequate for two main reasons, notably Heehs’s presumptuous critical judgements on both Sri Aurobindo’s life and works and, secondly, he essentially ignores Sri Aurobindo’s life as an inner myth. I have the feeling that not only did the author capitulate to American academia, but that he personally writes without conviction. The answer to the challenge of Peter Heehs’s biography of Sri Aurobindo is not polemical debate, however, but a more valid biography,—one, written by a true child of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, which portrays Sri Aurobindo’s (and the Mother’s) life as an inner myth, while not going beyond mediation and explication of his powerful and integral teachings.
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