On Page 226 first paragraph, Sri Aurobindo describes to Bharati and Srinivasacharya how he arrived at his decision to break away from politics and come to Pondicherry under Divine Guidance. "speaking with Bharati and Srinivasacharya about his vision of a divine life, he added that when he had divine illumination he found within himself ...." Our historian immediately distorts the presentation by adding Srinivasacharya's view that Sri Aurobindo made this decision influenced by two individuals, Paul Richard and Rangaswami Iyengar, who were offering help. "A rationalist, Srinivasacharya noted certain circumstances that might have helped Aurobindo arrive at his decision (to quit politics and move to Pondicherry)... meeting with Richard...Iyengar's interest in Aurobindo". As usual, Sri Aurobindo's decision made under Divine Guidance has been belittled into a triviality because the Ashram historian decided to include the opinions of peripheral people. A naive, uninformed reader might wonder after reading this page written by the ASHRAM HISTORIAN if Sri Aurobindo really had Divine guidance as claimed or if he was just fleeing the British and fooling around with people. Our historian never seems to accept the concept of an Adesh and tries to disprove its validity every time he finds an occurence. I don't understand two things about this episode: 1) People were in awe of Sri Aurobindo, the freedom-fighter at the time. Why would Srinivasacharya want to question Sri Aurobindo's motives. 2) Where has Srinivasacharya written down his thoughts for the author to see ? This feels like a game of poker where maybe we need to start thinking it's a bluff and asking for documentary proof of every assertion we disbelieve.