Past Works

Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Start date: May 20, 2025 End date: May 21, 2025 Venue: DAV Public School, Kaggalipura, Bengaluru At the invitation of the School Governing Council and Administration of Dayanand Arya Vidya School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team of Sri Aurobindo Society designed and conducted a 2-day workshop for their teachers during their annual professional development week in […]

Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers Read More »

Traveling through Bhārat – 2 – Lakshmijyothi C.

BhāratShakti Blog, India-Our Mother, Lakshmijyothi C., Past Works

Date: May 26, 2025 Part 2: The Light of Kashi “As those who dwell in Shiva’s sacred city of Kashi are liberated by the auspicious touch of the Lord, so all this Aryan country where the Goddess has set her purifying feet shall be the Kashi of the world.” ॥97॥ ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bhavani Bharati, verse 97

Traveling through Bhārat – 2 – Lakshmijyothi C. Read More »

The Indian Painting – May 2025, Renaissance

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Renaissance Journal

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

The Indian Painting – May 2025, Renaissance Read More »

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 5 – Beloo Mehra

Beloo Mehra, Bhagavad Gita, BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works

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

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 5 – Beloo Mehra Read More »

Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 4 – Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Narendra Murty, Past Works, Sanatana Dharma

Date: May 12, 2025 Part 3: 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

Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 4 – Narendra Murty Read More »

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 4 – Beloo Mehra

Beloo Mehra, Bhagavad Gita, BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works

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

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 4 – Beloo Mehra Read More »

A Seeker’s Journey Beyond the Self – 2 – Preeti Mahurkar

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Blog, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar

Date: April 28, 2025 Part 2 – The Work of Transformation CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Work as a Path to Transformation Auroville was never meant to be a place of passive existence. It was meant to be a field of conscious evolution, where work is a path to transformation. “Work, even manual work, is something

A Seeker’s Journey Beyond the Self – 2 – Preeti Mahurkar Read More »

Traveling through Bhārat – 1 – Lakshmijyothi C.

BhāratShakti Blog, India-Our Mother, Lakshmijyothi C., Past Works

Date: April 24, 2025 Part 1: Introduction  These are times when Nature is attempting at certain goals and Human Unity is undoubtedly one of them. Globalization on commercial front and Travel on the leisure front have been her tools. Like other movements of human development, travel, too has trends following the natural quest of the

Traveling through Bhārat – 1 – Lakshmijyothi C. Read More »

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 3 – Beloo Mehra

Beloo Mehra, Bhagavad Gita, BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works

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

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 3 – Beloo Mehra Read More »

K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Memorial Lecture: Glimpses from ‘Sitayana: Epic of the Earth-born’

BhāratShakti Talks, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: April 17, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai Watch the Recording HERE Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a foremost scholar of English literature, highly acclaimed and well-awarded for his invaluable academic contributions. But as aspiring children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo what we value and admire most about him is his deep and

K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Memorial Lecture: Glimpses from ‘Sitayana: Epic of the Earth-born’ Read More »

The Sculptural Art of India – April 2025, Renaissance

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Renaissance Journal

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

The Sculptural Art of India – April 2025, Renaissance Read More »

Book Discussion – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys

BhāratShakti Talks, BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

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

Book Discussion – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys Read More »

Human Relationships in Itihāsas – An Interactive Session for Uditam

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works

Date: April 19, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Saturday, April 19, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Human Relationships in Itihāsas. The session

Human Relationships in Itihāsas – An Interactive Session for Uditam Read More »

Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 3 – Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Narendra Murty, Past Works, Sanatana Dharma

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.

Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 3 – Narendra Murty Read More »

A Seeker’s Journey Beyond the Self – 1 – Preeti Mahurkar

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Blog, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar

Date: April 14, 2025 Part 1 – A Calling from the Soul Editor’s Note: In this 2-part blog, Preeti Mahurkar, who is currently a pre-newcomer at Auroville, shares some deep reflections on the vision of Auroville – a city that the Earth needs, according to the Mother, – what it means to live and work

A Seeker’s Journey Beyond the Self – 1 – Preeti Mahurkar Read More »

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 2 – Beloo Mehra

Beloo Mehra, Bhagavad Gita, BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: April 8, 2025 Part 2: Why Study the Scriptures? Continued from Part 1 We begin our study of Bhagavad Gita by becoming aware of what we seek when we study any scripture such as the Gita, what may be the limitation of our instrument, and how to avoid the trapping of the limits of

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 2 – Beloo Mehra Read More »

Scroll to Top