Guest Lectures

Lecture-discussion: Cultural and Political Legacy of Vijayanagara Empire

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Upcoming Programmes

Date: March 13, 2025 Time: 3:30 – 4:30 PM Venue: Ashram Exhibition House As part of the exhibition on ‘Hampi: A Photographic Journey Tracing the Aesthetics of Perseverance and Valour’ BhāratShakti department will be hosting a special lecture-discussion session on March 13 at Ashram Exhibition House. Dr. Nanda Kishor M S, Head, Dept. of Politics […]

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Sangeet Sandhya – Lecture-demonstration on Hindustani Classical Music

All Life is Yoga, Art and Spirituality, Guest Lectures, Upcoming Programmes

Date: March 25, 2025 Time: 5:45 PM – 7:30 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Music, no doubt, goes nearest to the infinite and to the essence of things because it relies wholly on the ethereal vehicle, śabda…”~ Sri Aurobindo As part of our ongoing exploration of ‘Spirit and Forms of Indian Art’ through our online

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Evolution of the Indian Ethos (Samvād series, 2nd edition)

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: March 4, 2024 Renaissance Journal team and Auropublications team invited Lopa Mukherjee for the second edition of their series – SAMVĀD which celebrates Authors, Books, and Booklovers. The programme was held on March 4, 2024 at the ground floor hall of Sri Aurobindo Society. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance Journal and Ms. Gayatri Majumdar,

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Discourses on Art and Spirituality – 27 sessions

Art and Spirituality, Guest Lectures, Past Works

In 2023, BhāratShakti through its Renaissance journal & Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center (SAILC), Auro University, Surat joined hands to launch a year-long project titled ‘Kala evam Adhyatma’ (Art and Spirituality). Under the auspices of this project, the team organized an online series of Discourses on Art and Spirituality. Through this weekly series, the registered participants

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SAMVĀD: Featuring Nandini Sengupta and her book – ‘Rani Durgawati – The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen’

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: 15 December 2023 Venue: Society House Watch the RECORDING. On 15th December, 2023, the Renaissance Journal along with Auropublications launched a new initiative titled SAMVĀD – A Series on Books, Authors and Booklovers. This initiative takes its guidance from the Mother who had encouraged the reading of carefully selected literature to cultivate our intelligence

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Lecture-discussion – Sri Aurobindo and India of the Future

Guest Lectures, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: July 24, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Renaissance Journal organised a special lecture-discussion happening at our campus on July 24, 2023. Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, a noted academic and cultural historian, was the invited speaker who

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Yoga in Daily Life: Guidance from the Mother (with special emphasis on conscious cooking)

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works

Speaker: Deepshikha Reddy DATE: July 6, 2023 VENUE: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording HERE. For a full gallery of photos from the event, please click HERE. As part of the Renaissance’s latest issue (June-July 2023) on the theme: Food, Sleep and Yoga, a special event was organised by the Renaissance team to conclude its Exhibition

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Yogic Relationship with Money – an Interactive Session

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: March 29, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the recording HERE. As part of its work on the March 2023 issue of the online journal ‘Renaissance’ which has ‘Money and Yoga’ as its theme (released on March 21), the Renaissance team organised a special interactive session on March 29 at Sri Aurobindo Society, Beach

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Individual and Family: Insights from the Social Thought of Sri Aurobindo

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: December 22, 2022 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the recording HERE. As part of our work on the January 2023 Renaissance issue on the theme of ‘Human Relations and Yoga’, the Renaissance Journal team organised a special event on December 22, 2022. We invited Ms. Lakshmi Jyothi Manapragada to share some thoughts on the

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Work as Sadhana: An Interactive Session with Arul Dev

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: December 3, 2022 Watch the livestream of the event HERE. “To do the work that one does with all sincerity, as perfectly as one can, is certainly one of the best ways to serve the Divine.” (The Mother, CWM, 14: 307) Since June 2021, every issue of Renaissance, the monthly journal of Sri Aurobindo

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India as Envisioned by Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: October 16, 2022 Watch the full recording HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150years of Sri Aurobindo and 75 years of Indian Independence, the Renaissance journal team had invited Dr. Narendra Joshi to deliver a lecture under the ‘India – Our Mother’ lecture series they have been hosting since last year.

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Beauty of Nature in ‘Savitri’

Art and Spirituality, Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: September 25, 2022 Watch the full recording HERE. Since October 2021, as part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150years of Sri Aurobindo and 75 years of Indian Independence, Renaissance journal team has been organising monthly lectures under the series – India, Our Mother. For lecture number 11, they invited Dr. Charan Singh Kedarkhandi

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Conscious Parenting: Lessons Learned as a Parent, Educator and Healer

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works

Date: September 16, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch recording HERE. Humanity must become progressively receptive to the light of a greater and higher consciousness, so that it can become a conscious aid in preparing the communal body and mind for the coming of a new race. A conscious

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Jai Bhavani: Celebrating Sri Aurobindo’s Poem ‘Baji Prabhou’ – through a Dance-drama and a Talk

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: August 9, 2022 Time: 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM Institute: AuroYajna and BhāratShakti Venue: Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society For a full gallery with pictures from the event and a few video clips, click HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence, Sri

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Love and Heroism in Sri Aurobindo’s Narrative Poems: Ulopie and Chitrangada

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Watch the recording of the event HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary, we have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the ninth lecture in the series, Dr. Shraddha Gour Mohanti was invited to share some thoughts on a

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The Unity of the Bhāratiya Civilisation: Evidence and Issues (Talk by Dr. Raj Vedam)

Guest Lectures, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Talk by Dr. Raj Vedam Date: July 9, 2022 A recording of the session can be accessed HERE. For the recording of Question & Answer session, click HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of India’s Independence, Renaissance Journal team has

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