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India’s Message: The Spiritual Solution – September 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2025 In Renaissance journal, we continue with our exploration of The New Ideal that Sri Aurobindo has given us, with a special focus on highlighting some perspectives relevant to the evolutionary march of our collective lives as societies and cultures. This new ideal of integral spirituality is

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Home Improvement, Self Improvement – by Beloo Mehra

Author: Beloo Mehra Date published: September 18, 2025 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Home Improvement, Self Improvement is our fifth blog published on SAIEN platform. Some years ago, my husband and I spent about 6 weeks getting several long-overdue renovation and repair projects completed

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 13 – Beloo Mehra

Date: September 9, 2025 Part 13: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 3 Continued from Part 12 Karmayoga and Equality The Gita attaches immense importance in its elements of Karmayoga to equality; “it is the nodus of the free spirit’s free relations with the world,” says Sri Aurobindo. For one who is always withdrawn

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 12 – Beloo Mehra

Date: August 26, 2025 Part 12: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 2 Continued from Part 11 We continue our brief study of the signs of a Divine Worker. A divine worker is free from the desire of the fruits of action and is conscious of working only as an instrument of the Divine

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Sri Aurobindo and the New Ideal – July-Aug 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issues 7-8Date: August 21, 2025 Greetings for this special month of August! Renaissance, our online journal, brings several rich offerings in the month of August 2025. A special post released on August 1 featured guidance from Sri Aurobindo on how we can make every August 15 a definitive step in our

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Renaissance Redux – Release of Third Issue of BhāratShakti’s Quarterly Publication

Date: August 15, 2025 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features selections from the vast archives of the online journal Renaissance which has been published since 2019 and presents them in a thematic manner. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 11 – Beloo Mehra

Date: August 12, 2025 Part 11: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action -1 Continued from Part 10 Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna’s question on how to reconcile Karmayoga and the renunciation of works. He wants Sri Krishna to tell him with a clear decisiveness which of these is the better way.

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 8 – Narendra Murty

Date: August 4, 2025 Part 8: About Mythology Continued from Part 7 The art of symbolism has been used extensively in the area of mythology in Sanatana Dharma.  Plato described myths as fictional stories that illustrated Truth. In other words, myths are an expression of some deeper truths through the medium of stories and vivid imagery.

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Launch of ‘The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle’

Date: August 1, 2025 Venue: Online In the special month of August, BhāratShakti department under the guidance of Vijaybhai launched a new BI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION – The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle. The first issue of this e-publication was circulated with a special note from Vijaybhai. He wrote: Sri Aurobindo Circle was started with the Mother’s blessings from Bombay

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 10 – Beloo Mehra

Date: July 29, 2025 Part 10: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 3 Continued from Part 9 In the next few verses in the chapter on Yoga of Knowledge, Sri Krishna elaborates on the idea of sacrifice. He speaks of the psychological disciplines by which seekers of higher self-possession and self-knowledge practice and develop self-control

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 9 – Beloo Mehra

Date: July 15, 2025 Part 9: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 2 Continued from Part 8 The Avatāra and the Dharma As the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, focusing on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge, unfolds further, we get a deeper understanding of the work of the Divine when it descends in

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 7 – Narendra Murty

Date: July 10, 2025 Part 7: Understanding Hindu Rituals – Teerth Yatra Continued from Part 6 Teerth Yatra or Pilgrimage has been a part of the religious life of almost all the religions. The physical journey in the outer dimension is actually a symbol of an inner spiritual quest. In olden days, a pilgrimage always implied

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The Yogic Attitude Towards Money

Renaissance E-book 6 Editor: Dr. Beloo Mehra Released: July 2025 The Yogic Attitude Towards Money is a Free eBook available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have given us the ideal attitude that a sādhaka of Integral Yoga must cultivate towards money. A sādhaka must neither turn

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Seeing the Whole Child – Foreword for the book ‘A Child’s Journey’

Author: Beloo Mehra Release Date: June 28, 2025 Publisher: The Healing Circle, Bengaluru In April 2025, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to write a Foreword for an upcoming book titled ‘A Child’s Journey’. The book authored by Jayashree Ashok, published by The Healing Circle, Bengaluru, was launched on June 28, 2025 at Creative

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 8 – Beloo Mehra

Date: July 1, 2025 Part 8: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 1 Continued from Part 7 The fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge. It opens with Sri Krishna telling Arjuna that it was He who had revealed this highest secret, this imperishable Yoga, to the Sun-God

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 6 – Narendra Murty

Date: June 22, 2025 Part 6: Understanding Hindu Rituals – Pradakshina Continued from Part 5 Pradakshina is a term used for the ritual of walking clockwise around a shrine, an image or a sacred object. This circumambulation ritual is widely practiced in in Hinduism and Buddhism. The essential idea is the communion with the divine principle.

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The Rich Tapesty of Indian Art – June 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 6Date: June 21, 2025 Namaste to all on this International Yoga Day. We are reminded today of the Mother’s insights on the parallels between the discipline of Yoga and discipline of Art. We hope our readers enjoyed the offerings under the theme of ‘Art as Yoga‘ in the Renaissance journal. The Mother

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 7 – Beloo Mehra

Date: June 17, 2025 Part 7: On Disinterested Duty and Divine Obligation to Act Continued from Part 6 In continuation of what was discussed in the previous part, it is important to reflect a little on why Sri Aurobindo cautions that it is a mistake to interpret the Gita from the standpoint of today’s mentality. Such

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