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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Date: July 1, 2025 Part 8: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 1 Continued from Part 7 The fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge. It opens with Sri Krishna telling Arjuna that it was He who had revealed this highest secret, this imperishable Yoga, to the Sun-God
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Date: June 28, 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 on Saturday, June 28, 2025. As all the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo Society, for her session,
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Date: June 26, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording Since September 2024, BhāratShakti department has been engaged in a year-long exploration of Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, both through the offerings in our online journal Renaissance, as well as various offline and online events we have been organizing and conducting. As part of this
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Date: June 23, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of a natural follow-up to a webinar titled ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-Poet‘, organised by BhāratShakti on December 7, 2024 a special online talk was organised on June 23, 2025 on the topic “Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri.” The invited speaker for
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Date: June 20, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording Management Development Institute (MDI), Murshidabad invited Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society, to be part of a special Faculty Research Seminar Series on June 20, 2025. The Faculty Research Seminar Series aims to bring forward conversations that help faculty members and research scholars connect
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Date: June 22, 2025 Part 6: Understanding Hindu Rituals – Pradakshina Continued from Part 5 Pradakshina is a term used for the ritual of walking clockwise around a shrine, an image or a sacred object. This circumambulation ritual is widely practiced in in Hinduism and Buddhism. The essential idea is the communion with the divine principle.
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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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Date: June 17, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to
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Date: June 16, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to
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Date: June 17, 2025 Part 7: On Disinterested Duty and Divine Obligation to Act Continued from Part 6 In continuation of what was discussed in the previous part, it is important to reflect a little on why Sri Aurobindo cautions that it is a mistake to interpret the Gita from the standpoint of today’s mentality. Such
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Date: June 2, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India’s future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas
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Date: June 3, 2025 Part 6: Karmayoga – The Yoga of Works Continued from Part 5 Arjuna seems perplexed after listening to the deep metaphysical truths given by Sri Krishna regarding the permanence of the Atman, the way of being of the yogin stationed in the true self-knowledge, and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. Seeking
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Date: May 31, 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 on Saturday, May 31, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Light on Human Relationships. After some general
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Date: June 1, 2025 Part 5: Understanding Hindu Rituals Continued from Part 4 Rituals are physical acts that establish our relationship with the Divine. The act of a ritual establishes rules and patterns of behaviour that we adopt towards the Divine. There is a philosophy, meaning and significance behind every ritual. Rituals become beautiful and meaningful
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Date: May 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the annual intensive workshop for teachers organised by SAFIER, educational wing of Sri Aurobindo Society (conducted from 16th to 24th May 2025 under the title of Anatah-Kamala), on May 23rd, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to take one session related to Indian
Indian Culture through Art and Architecture Read More »
Start Date: April 26, 2025 End Date: May 24, 2025 Venue: Online Love and relationships are at the root of all human life as lived in our familial and societal contexts. But ordinarily, most people do not take the trouble to examine and understand the nature of these two things. Consequently, we go through life
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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 »
