Author: Beloo MehraDate published: November 7, 2024 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. To Be Like the Ocean is our second blog published on SAIEN platform. To Be Like the Ocean The other day as I read the following lines from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, […]
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 10Date: October 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra India had conceived the whole philosophy of her art, early on in the Vedic period itself, emphasises E.B. Havell in Ideals of Indian Art. The highest vision of the Vedic seers, the vision of the Infinite that is revealed and yet hidden in all
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Date: October 22, 2024 The demise of Ratan Tata marks the end of an era. An era of visionary leadership that began 100 years back with Jamshedji Tata, that continued through JRD Tata, finally ended with Ratan Tata. Business for the Tatas was not just about making money and getting rich. It was
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Renaissance E-book 4 Editor: Dr. Beloo Mehra Released: October 2024 Human Relations and Integral Yoga is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. How do we find the inner divinity in our oh-so-human love and relationships? What is the ideal that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother speak of, and
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Date: September 23, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra’s new book titled Antaryatra: Soul Journeys (2024, published by Sri Aurobindo’s Action with Brown Critique Books) was officially launched on September 23, 2024. The book is primarily written keeping the youth of India in mind. So it was perfect that the book
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision of integral human development, cultivating a sense of beauty occupies an important place. The Mother said that it is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when we are taught to shun
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Date: August 26, 2024 People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 8Date: August 15, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In August 2022, for the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, we did a special issue of Renaissance on the theme – ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Eternal Presence‘. And ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Rishi‘ was the theme for the August 2023 issue. As the
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Renaissance E-Book 3 Author: Sheeba Naaz Released: July 2024 “Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.”~ The Mother, CWM, 14:98 Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. For the 12 issues of Renaissance during 2021-2022, as we explored the 12 qualities
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Date: August 7, 2024 Sri Aurobindo once wrote that more than the disunity, it was the lack of national feeling among Indians which made the British so easily conquer India. In this context he described the essential difference between national consciousness and patriotism, which he said are two different qualities. “The patriot lives in a
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Author: Beloo MehraDate published: July 18, 2024 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Let Go and Call Her is our first blog published on SAIEN platform. Let Go and Call Her When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you
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Date: July 7, 2024 Of late some imbecile politicians no doubt driven by a diabolic agenda, have been articulating a gem of an idiocy that India was not a nation before 1947. That we owe our nationhood to the British rule because India was never a nation but merely a conglomeration of kingdoms. Going by
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Date: July 4, 2024 Today is 4th July, the independence day of the USA. And also the anniversary of the Mahasamadhi of Swami Vivekananda. It was Swami ji who sowed the seeds of Indian spirituality in the “land of the free” showing the “Sisters and brothers of America” the path to a real, truer inner
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Date: July 1, 2024 “I always thought it [cinema] could be used to good purpose.” ~ The Mother, Agenda, 10: 270 In this series of jottings I will periodically share a few reflections or thoughts on some films which I feel serve an important purpose of making people aware of some of the uncomfortable truths
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Date: June 25, 2024 Nalanda burnt for nine days. Now after centuries, Nalanda has risen again like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes. Civilization always had to defend itself against the forces of barbarism, often unsuccessfully. Nalanda as a university existed 500 years even before the famed European universities of Oxford and Paris came into
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Date: June 24, 2024 While speaking of the nature of Indian Renaissance Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is an attempt and impulse of a “reawakened national spirit” expressing itself in new forms which shall give the spiritual force for a great reshaping and rebuilding. Out of this awakening vision and impulse, the future tendency
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 6 Date: June 21, 2024 In the previous issue we featured a few letters of Sri Aurobindo where he discusses the desirability of limiting social contacts but without going into an absolute isolation or retirement. In the current issue we feature a few passages from the Mother’s works to deepen our understanding
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 5 Date: May 21, 2024 We continue our series on Streams of Sadhana by focusing our attention to the place of Silence and Solitude in Sadhana. For the silence to settle in, in each part of oneself, intense sādhana is called for. A lifetime of tapasyā may not be enough, and yet to attain
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