"Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. " Nothing really to respond to. You have aptly stated "the Aurobindonian ideals and perceptions are governed in the least by things such as the Lives". But let us not totally discount the potential effect of the written word too in the "lives" of others. On the subject of the "lives" the opinions are so deeply divided that the discussion has degenerated " into a useless exchange of hardened positions" and therefore engaging in it unprovoked neither inspires the thought nor moves the heart.