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Thanks for responding to Yeditor on the Upanishads page. As you can see all of us "blatant Hindu vandals" are in this together.Bakaman Bakatalk 18:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Sri Aurobindo template
Thanks Varun for the Sri Aurobindo template improvement. It looks great! M Alan Kazlev 21:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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Sri Aurobindo's biography
hi Varun

At the moment unfortunately I am really immersed in writing my own book. So sure I'm happy to help, but it can only be part time, and we need other people as well.

The problem with the wiki page as it is now is that it is presented in a very "devotional" manner. By that I mean it says stuff like "according to Sri Aurobindo (such and such)" but then there are very few references or footnotes at the end of each statement. I added a few a while back, but it needs heaps more. To make it more academic, each paragraph, and often sentences, should be accompanied by page references to The Life Divine and other major works. But i'm not the sort of person who can cite chapter and verse, so we need people who are familar with page by page and chapter by chapter content of Sri Aurobindo's collected works.

There is also a strong need for more references/footnotes in the biography section. I'll add some when i have more time.

Also, the influence of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, at the end of the page, is in strong need of developing. I'll try to add some more material there as well.

The page also seems to be unbalanced, in that a very large amount of space is devoted to Sri Aurobindo's teachings, and this could be transferred to separate pages on his difefrent major works. I had originally put up these as individual pages but as is typical of Wikipedia - and i totally agree with you, it suffers from an occidental bias as well as a materialistic bias - these had to be merged into a single big page (Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo). I think that we could easily restore them tpo individual pages, but to do that we would need to find third party refernces and citations. And that is where academic scholarship is useful. If you know of good third party references, reviews etc that would be great.

I would certainly like to see several qualified people working on this page. Do you know of anyone else who would be interested in collaborating on this project? M Alan Kazlev (talk) 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Peter Heehs paper
No probs. I can email the pdf of Heehs' essay to you. Just write to me at alankazlev (at) ihug (dot) com (dot) au M Alan Kazlev (talk) 23:30, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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