I’ve made, en passant, a number of comments about the highly controversial biography The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. Links to some of them are listed in the following. These observations however must be seen in the overall context of the respective articles but particularly it as pertaining to the divine work, divyam karma of the Gita. http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/29/3999434.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/27/3997815.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/12/1/4002901.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/12/3/4005379.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/12/2/4004239.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/26/3996217.html http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/_archives/2008/11/30/4000477.html We go to a spiritually accomplished person to seek his spiritual help to make spiritual progress, and we endeavour to follow it if we are centrally alert to its assuring methodology and its demands, truthful to our own earnest and sincerest yearning. The author of a recent biography of Sri Aurobindo and his eloquent friends simply disregard this central principle of spiritual discipline. But absence of the psychic and spiritual awareness will put even the best of our thinking and reasoning in a permanent mental trap, a secure trap from which escape may not be easy, may not be simple and straightforward. We should follow the higher precepts in their truthfulness. It is this superior and elevating expectation we have from the biography of a spiritual giant, and that too the biography of a Yogi par excellence. When this is not available then one feels disappointed—whatever be its other claims and good points, its academic or research presentations. While these few stray comments have been summarised only briefly here, a more thorough and detailed presentation is necessary, in fact not only necessary but is obligatory also. Yet it is felt that this material will provide the essential background for the purposes of appreciating the many dimensions that are present here. This need be seen from several yogic-spiritual perspectives. RYD If the doors of perception are cleansed, reality will appear to man as it truly is, infinite. - William Blake