Posted to the AVCompats list on June 19, 2009.

Peter did a great service to people who are interested in Sir Aurobindo and to future generations of people interested in Sri Aurobindo - without many years of diligent service and research such a book would not have been possible.

Peter used that material to the best of his ability as a loving tribute - he did not feel the need to hide anything he understood as part of the truth about sri aurobindo knowing that the truth could not tarnish sri aurobindo in any way.

I feel a great debt of gratitude to peter for having somehow brought back to me the amazing atmosphere of spiritual adventure that I found and fell in love with when I first came to pondicherry in 1969.

It is a book that tries to tell something about Sri Aurobindo's lives, and perhaps inspire a reader to look in their own lives for the joy, radiance, and spiritual quest, that permeate this book.

I hope that these guys who have made this case meet with judges who have read the book and who will give them a huge fine for court costs.

I don't think any group or individual needs to judge or plead for this book because this book will stand on its own for generations.

Peter Hees book is a living tribute to Sri Aurobindo - and anyone who finds anything else there - is projecting something on the book that is not there.

Jocelyn

(Jocelyn is one of the original residents of Auroville.)