Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 11-12Date: December 21, 2025 Sri Aurobindo has brought a new dynamism and has revealed new dimensions to the timeless spiritual vision and thought given by our ancient sages and seers. His emphasis that the ideals of the past is an indication of the greater ideals of the future is an important reminder for all […]
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Date: November 24, 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 with a different
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Date: November 19, 2025 This writeup maybe a decade late, but the thoughts are still relevant, I think. Because the film which I am going to analyse briefly here can be said to usher in a new trend in multilingual Indian cinema – that of telling pan-Indian timeless stories in a grand, epic style. A
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 10Date: October 21, 2025 In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo writes that “to hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.” This is our guiding light for the latest issue of Renaissance, our monthly online journal released on October 21, 2025. Sri
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Publications of Dr. Beloo Mehra, 2024-2025 Writings published in Renaissance Journal of Sri Aurobindo Society are not included. Total = 25 ARTICLES (Excludes Articles in Renaissance) BOOKS EDITED BOOKS BOOK CHAPTERS CURATED PERIODICALS BLOGS FOR SAIEN
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Publications of Dr. Beloo Mehra, 2024-2025 Writings published in Renaissance Journal of Sri Aurobindo Society are not included. Total = 7 ARTICLES (Excludes Articles in Sri Aurobindo Society’s Journals) BOOKS 1. Book: SERMONS OF THE DEAD (October 2024, ISBN: 978-81-971818-9-9) The Alcove Publishers, Gurgaon) CURATED PERIODICAL
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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