A Visual Overview of March 2025
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Past Works
Remember to Reject: Learning on the Way – by Beloo Mehra
Author: Beloo Mehra Date published: April 3, 2025 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Remember to Reject: Learning on the Way is our fourth blog published on SAIEN platform. Life gives us many opportunities to become aware of those countless little, pesky flaws in
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Sangeet Sandhya: Lecture-demonstration on Hindustani Classical Music
Date: 25 March, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch Glimpses “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 the year-long exploration of ‘Spirit and Forms of Indian Art’ the BhāratShakti department organised a special evening programme
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Integrating Indian History, Art, and Culture – Learning through Photography
Start Date: 6 March, 2025 End Date: 23 March, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry Lifelong learning and awakening a thirst to know and grow plays an important role in the overall progress of the individual in the context of Integral Development. The Mother has also emphasised how important it is to create or awaken
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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 2 – Narendra Murty
Date: April 1, 2025 Part 2: Symbolism in Murti Puja Continued from Part 1 During his Parivrajaka days when Swami Vivekananda was travelling all over India on foot, he happened to be visiting the princely state of Alwar in Rajasthan. Raja Mangal Singh, the king of Alwar told him that he did not believe in
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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 1 – Beloo Mehra
Date: March 25, 2025 Part 1: Introduction “…the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 427 Srimad Bhagavad Gita is one of those rarest scriptures of the world in which lie the deepest and lasting solutions to most of our life’s day-to-day problems. This universal and timeless
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The Divine Spark Within
Date: 22 March 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, March 22, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Divine Spark Within. After brief
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The Cultural and Political Legacy of The Vijayanagara Empire
Date: March, 13, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry Watch the Recording As a part of the Exhibition on “Hampi – A Photographic Journey Tracing the Aesthetics of Perseverance and Valour”, BhāratShakti team organised a Lecture-discussion by Dr. Nanda Kishore M S, Head of the Department of Politics & International Studies and Chair of Sri
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The Mother as an Artist – March 2025, Renaissance
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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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 1 – Narendra Murty
Date: March 18, 2025 Part 1 Introduction: The Language of Symbolism Those who are born outside the tradition of Hinduism generally feel completely at a loss to understand the spectacle that unfolds before their eyes whenever they are confronted with any outward signs of it. Lacking a single authority like Christianity, Islam or Buddhism, Hinduism
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Shiva, The Lord of Tapas – Online Satsang in Hindi
Date: 10 March, 2025 Venue: Online A webinar in Hindi was organised by BhāratShakti on the theme of Shiva, The Lord of Tapas on March 10, 2025 to celebrate the holy occasion of Mahashivaratri. The programme involved a talk by Dr. Charan Singh Kedarkhandi and musical offering by Ms. Biswajita Mohapatra. About 25 people joined
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Inauguration of BhāratShakti Exhibition “Hampi – A Photographic Journey”
Date: March 6, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry At the invitation of the Exhibition House of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, the BhāratShakti team organised an Exhibition on the theme: “HAMPI – A Photographic Journey: Tracing the Aesthetics of Perseverance and Valour” as part of its ongoing exploration of the Spirit and Forms of Indian
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Psychic Education: Practical Guidance from the Mother
Date: March 8, 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, March 8, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Psychic Education: Practical Guidance from the
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Art and Poetry with Insights from Sri Aurobindo
Date: March 3, 2025 Venue: Sharanam, Sri Aurobindo Society Pondicherry Poets and The Brown Critique, the founders-organisers of Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival, invited Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, to deliver a talk for the eighth edition of the Poetry Festival, which was held from 1 to 3 March 2025. Dr. Mehra’s talk titled ‘Art and Poetry with Insights from Sri Aurobindo’ was
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Sri Aurobindo’s Insights on National Education and NEP 2020: Hits and Misses
Date: February 28, 2025 Venue: The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited as an expert speaker at a National Seminar on Ideas of India’s Eminent Educational Thinkers and Transformative Learning through NEP2020, jointly organized by the School of International Studies, Central University of Gujarat, and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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The Inner Meaning of Samudra Manthan
Date: February, 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch Watch the recording HERE. On 23rd February, 2025, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk at the Sunday Satsang held in the Meditation Hall of the Delhi Branch of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The subject of the talk was “The Inner
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Humility and Power – A Panel Discussion in Auroville
Date: February 22, 2025 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville As part of the week-long celebration of the Mother’s Birthday, the annual Auroville Festival of 2025 focused on the theme – Humility and its integration with Four Aspects of the Mother. On February 22, the specific theme of Humility and Power (Mahakali aspect of the Divine Mother)
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The Fundamentals of Zen
Date: February 22, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch On February, 22, 2025, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver a talk to a group of about 30 devotees from Argentina as a part of the Birthday Celebrations of the Mother at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch. The subject of the
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Appreciating Indian Art – February 2025, Renaissance
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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