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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Date: June 3, 2025 Part 6: Karmayoga – The Yoga of Works Continued from Part 5 Arjuna seems perplexed after listening to the deep metaphysical truths given by Sri Krishna regarding the permanence of the Atman, the way of being of the yogin stationed in the true self-knowledge, and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. Seeking
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Date: June 1, 2025 Part 5: Understanding Hindu Rituals Continued from Part 4 Rituals are physical acts that establish our relationship with the Divine. The act of a ritual establishes rules and patterns of behaviour that we adopt towards the Divine. There is a philosophy, meaning and significance behind every ritual. Rituals become beautiful and meaningful
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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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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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Date: May 12, 2025 Part 4: 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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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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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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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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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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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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