Renaissance Journal – BhāratShakti

Renaissance Redux, Vol. 2, Issue 1 – Release of BhāratShakti’s Quarterly Publication

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Date: February 21, 2026 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features some of our cherished selections from the voluminous Renaissance journal which has entered the seventh year of its publication in January 2026. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each with a different theme – are […]

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Preparing the Mind of a Nation – January 2026, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VII, Issue 1Date: January 21, 2026 Renaissance releases its first issue of 2026 with 8 thoughtful and thought-provoking offerings. Released on January 21, the issue highlights the ideal given by Sri Aurobindo that our efforts to rebuild a New India must be on the lines of the living spirit of the nation,

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On Life, Spirit, and the New Ideal – December 2025, Renaissance

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

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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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The Next Stage in Human Progress – October 2025, Renaissance

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

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

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

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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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The Rich Tapesty of Indian Art – June 2025, Renaissance

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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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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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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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The Mother as an Artist – March 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 3Date: March 21, 2025 After last month’s special offering which included the release of the first issue of Renaissance Redux, and the launch of Children’s Corner, along with rich content related to appreciation of Indian art and a book review, we are happy to bring another special issue this month. The focus

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Appreciating Indian Art – February 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 2Date: February 21-24, 2025 We continue our exploration of the spirit and forms of Indian Art through a variety of offerings in the February 2025 issue. The issue focuses on a 2-part article by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Renaissance Editor, titled An Intuitive and Spiritual Eye to Appreciate Indian Art. Sri

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Indian Sacred Architecture – January 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 1Date: January 21, 2025 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra “…everyone who has at all the Indian spirit and feeling, can at least give some account of the main, the central things which constitute for him the appeal of Indian painting, sculpture and architecture.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20,

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The Way of the Indian Artist – Nov-Dec 2024, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 11-12Date: November 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra An ability to ‘see’ is the key difference between a true artist and a non-artist or a mere craftsman. We are not talking here about the specific angle or perspective from which an artist sees the outer form of

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The Sacred Origins of Art – October 2024, Renaissance

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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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Purpose of Art: From Beauty to Bliss – September 2024, Renaissance

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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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Sri Aurobindo, the Avatar – August 2024, Renaissance

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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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Silence and Solitude – II – June 2024, Renaissance

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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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Silence and Solitude – May, 2024, Renaissance

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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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