Reviews of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo published in academic journals.

This section contains all signed (Real Name) reviews of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo at Amazon (as of January 16, 2010).

A review of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Marcel Kvassay, originally published in two parts in AntiMatters Vol 3 No 1, pp 117–136, and Vol 3 No 2, pp 99–128 (2009).

While eschewing the colorful hyperboles of "Mahakali's wrath"–mongers, this review by J. Kepler attempts a nuanced reading sympathetic to the sentiments some of the aggrieved.

François Gautier reviews The Lives of Sri Aurobindo.

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo reviewed by Ellen Daly for EnlightenNext magazine (USA), Fall/Winter 2008.

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Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah?

by Carter Phipps

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo reviewed by Alan for Auroville Today.

Written in French by Christine Devin, this review appeared in Revue d'Auroville 26, January-March 2009. We reproduce the original text followed by a translation into English.

Published by Yoga Journal (USA) in December 2008.

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo — a Controversial Biography
by R.Y. Deshpande

Peter Heehs's Lives of Sri Aurobindo is a recent arrival in the thriving genre of biographies and professes itself to be founded on researched material. It essentially treats the subject as a human person, one in our nature, and not really as an exceptional yogi or a spiritual stalwart, and in the least as an incarnate. The book has been recently published by the Columbia University Press and appears to be rough on the sentiments of the devotees of the Mother and the Master. The author claims himself to be a meticulous professional historian and wants to present the life, howsoever remarkable it be, strictly as it should emerge from the documentary material.

Posted to the AVCompats list on June 19, 2009.