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Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers

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Start date: May 20, 2025 End date: May 21, 2025 Venue: DAV Public School, Kaggalipura, Bengaluru At the invitation of the School Governing Council and Administration of Dayanand Arya Vidya School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team of Sri Aurobindo Society designed and conducted a 2-day workshop for their teachers during their annual professional development week in

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Traveling through Bhārat – 2 – Lakshmijyothi C.

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Date: May 26, 2025 Part 2: The Light of Kashi “As those who dwell in Shiva’s sacred city of Kashi are liberated by the auspicious touch of the Lord, so all this Aryan country where the Goddess has set her purifying feet shall be the Kashi of the world.” ॥97॥ ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bhavani Bharati, verse 97

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The Indian Painting – May 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 5Date: May 21, 2025 The attempt to express in form and limit something of that which is formless and illimitable is the attempt of Indian art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 8, p. 64 Art historian Stella Kramrisch states that the art of painting has played an important role in the

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A Spiritual Approach to Stress Management – An Online Course

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Start Date: July 5, 2025 End Date: August 9, 2025 Venue: Online Modern life is full of problems, desires, expectations, deadlines and frustrations. When we are overwhelmed by all these, we suffer from stress. To combat stress, the remedies that are usually offered include: Medication, Exercise, Visualization, Meditation, Breathing techniques, Muscle relaxation, Laughing Clubs, Healthy

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 5 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: May 20, 2025 Part 5: Sānkhya Yoga – 2 Continued from Part 4 In the next several verses is expounded Gita’s teaching of the Buddhi-yoga, the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. This teaching builds upon two foundations: a) the Vedantic Sānkhya of the Upanishads and b) Yoga, a principally subjective practice and inner change which

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 4 – Narendra Murty

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Date: May 12, 2025 Part 3: Vishnu, the Lord of the Universe Continued from Part 3 The word Vishnu is derived from the Sanskrit root “vish” which means “to pervade.” So, Vishnu is “the one who pervades” or “the all-pervasive”. Vishnu is the inside-out of the whole creation. Vishnu symbolises Brahman, the Ultimate Source of all that

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Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri – Talk by Dr. Ananda Reddy

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Date: June 23, 2025 Time: 5:00 PM Venue: Online BhāratShakti department is happy to host a special online talk on Savitri, the mantric epic poem of Sri Aurobindo. About Savitri, the Mother once said that it is a “complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 4 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: May 6, 2025 Part 4: Sānkhya Yoga – I Continued from Part 3 Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita begins with Sri Krishna giving a jolt to Arjuna when he asks – How and from where has this stain and darkness of the soul entered into you in the hour of difficulty and peril? In order

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A Seeker’s Journey Beyond the Self – 2 – Preeti Mahurkar

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Date: April 28, 2025 Part 2 – The Work of Transformation CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Work as a Path to Transformation Auroville was never meant to be a place of passive existence. It was meant to be a field of conscious evolution, where work is a path to transformation. “Work, even manual work, is something

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Traveling through Bhārat – 1 – Lakshmijyothi C.

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Date: April 24, 2025 Part 1: Introduction  These are times when Nature is attempting at certain goals and Human Unity is undoubtedly one of them. Globalization on commercial front and Travel on the leisure front have been her tools. Like other movements of human development, travel, too has trends following the natural quest of the

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Yuvā Shakti – Indian View on Character Development

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Date: June 2, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India’s future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 3 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: April 22, 2025 Part 3: Arjuna Viṣhāda Yoga – The Yoga of Arjuna’s Dejection Continued from Part 2 On the battlefield of Kurukshetra when Arjuna, the representative man of his age, is overcome with dejection and sorrow at the most critical moment of his life, he raises a fundamental question regarding human life and

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K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Memorial Lecture: Glimpses from ‘Sitayana: Epic of the Earth-born’

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Date: April 17, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai Watch the Recording HERE Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a foremost scholar of English literature, highly acclaimed and well-awarded for his invaluable academic contributions. But as aspiring children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo what we value and admire most about him is his deep and

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The Sculptural Art of India – April 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 4Date: April 21, 2025 E.B. Havell, the famous British art historian, said that a golden thread of Vedic thought bound together all varied strands of Indian art—Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Sikh, and even Indo-Saracenic—in spite of their outer, theological, ritualistic and dogmatic differences. Also, because art is primarily subjective, it is

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Book Discussion – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys

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Date: April 15, 2025 Venue: Palais de Mahe, Pondicherry Watch the recording HERE. As part of BhāratShakti’s Samvād series of events in which selected books are discussed in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s vision, the latest book to be taken up was — Antaryatra: Soul Journeys, written by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. This took

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Human Relationships in Itihāsas – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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Date: April 19, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Saturday, April 19, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Human Relationships in Itihāsas. The session

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 3 – Narendra Murty

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Date: April 16, 2025 Part 3: Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer Continued from Part 2 Nataraja is an aspect of Shiva. He is the Cosmic Dancer. The word Nataraja literally means the Lord of Dance. In all the religious literatures of the world, we would usually find statements like “God created the universe” or such similar ideas.

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