Dates: December 27-29, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Sangama-Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team will be conducting a two-day immersive retreat on the theme – Yoga in Everyday Life. The residential retreat will be hosted by Sri Aurobindo Dhama located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river in Sangama-Mekedatu in
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Date: December 27, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Sangama – Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team will be conducting a day-long workshop for 65-70 students of ages 12 to 16 who are enrolled at Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam. The theme of the workshop is – Our Culture, Our Pride. This workshop is designed with a
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Start date: September 24, 2024 End date: October 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka One of BhāratShakti ongoing works – Design for Dissemination – the team regularly researches, designs and curates exhibitions on a variety of topics. As part of its Invoking Shakti children’s workshop series that BhāratShakti team has been curating and
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Renaissance E-book 4 Released: October 2024 How do we find the inner divinity in our oh-so-human love and relationships? What is the ideal that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother speak of, and how prepared each one of us is to work toward that ideal? What are the challenges? These and other related topics became the
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Date: October 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On October 5, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the weekly YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based
Start date: September 24, 2024 End Date: September 27, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 4-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 3-18) on the theme – ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’ at Creative School near Bengaluru. This workshop was a part of
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Date: October 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the recordings – PART 1 PART 2 It is victory day; let it be a true victory of the Spirit over ignorance and falsehood. The Mother’s message on Durga Puja, 1954 Durga Puja is celebrated in Sri Aurobindo Ashram as victory day, a victory of the truth over
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Date: October 10, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 1 India’s Role as a Spiritual Leader – Guiding the World Toward Unity and Peace To fulfill Sri Aurobindo’s dreams, India must embrace its role as a spiritual leader on the global stage. This leadership is not about asserting dominance but about offering a path to unity and
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Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka BhāratShakti team was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to curate and conduct an intensive workshop for about 70 teachers on the theme: Insights from Itihāsas,
Date: September 23, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra’s new book titled Antaryatra: Soul Journeys (2024, published by Sri Aurobindo’s Action with Brown Critique Books) was officially launched on September 23, 2024. The book is primarily written keeping the youth of India in mind. So it was perfect that the book
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Date: September 21, 2024 Editor’s note: We are happy to feature a series of blogs by Preeti Mahurkar on the theme of “A New India Arising” inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Five Dreams’. Preeti Mahurkar is a highly accomplished life coach, certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner, emotional intelligence trainer, and career counselor with over 25 years
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Date: September 13, 2024 Venue: Tagore Government Arts and Science College On September 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk on the topic – Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo. This program was organized by the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Pondicherry in collaboration
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Start Date: June 1, 2024 End Date: August 17, 2024 Venue: Online A 12-week Online Course on Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma was organised by the BhāratShakti team starting from 1st June to 17th August, 2024. The course was facilitated by Narendra Murty, Research Associate and Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. Online classes were held every
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Date: September 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, September 5, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited as a Guest Lecturer by the Jindal Global Business School, a specialized institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He gave a presentation on the topic “The 6 Thinking
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Date: September 7, 2024 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the last 4-day programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BharatShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Saturday, September 7, 2024. For her session, Dr. Mehra chose the topic – From Love Human to Love
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Date: August 26, 2024 People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is
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Date: August 18, 2024 WATCH the recordings of the 2.5-hour-long symposium:PART 1, PART 2, PART 3 “The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is its [Indian Renaissance’s] first, most important work…”(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 20: 15) As part of our ongoing activities of the study group on
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Start Date: 5 August, 2024 End Date:25 August, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat A poster exhibition curated by the BhāratShakti team is currently on display at the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat. Dr. Rajeshwari Singh, President of the Kendra had invited us to curate a special exhibition for
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Date: August 13, 2024 Editor’s note: As the world witnesses the heart-wrenching attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, it is time to recall a powerful statement of Sri Aurobindo – “…the creative activities of the Hindu revival have made Indian religion a living and evolving, a secure, triumphant and self-assertive power.” (CWSA, 20: 63). To
देवी अहिल्याबाई होल्कर, नारी शक्ति का एक प्रज्जवलित उदाहरण – सुमन कोचर Read More »
Renaissance E-Book 3 Released: July 2024 “Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.”~ The Mother, CWM, 14:98 Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. For the 12 issues of Renaissance during 2021-2022, as we explored the 12 qualities of the Mother’s
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