Date: December 7, 2024Venue: Online On December 7, 2024 BhāratShakti team organised a webinar on the theme – Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-Poet. The programme included three talks and interaction with the participants. The speakers included Shri Pradeep Narang, Dr. Shaurya Brahmbhatt and Dr. Larry Seidlitz. The webinar was moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra. More than […]
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Date: December 4, 2024 Venue: Online The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as a part of life and made it subservient to life. ~ The Mother, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 108 As part of our ongoing year-long exploration of the topic – “The Spirit and Forms of Art in
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Date: December 10, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Bengaluru At the invitation of Creative School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team researched and curated a 58-poster exhibition titled ‘Hampi: A UNESCO World Heritage Site” to be used as as part of an educational project for the students. The posters incorporated many pictures taken at various places in Hampi
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Renaissance E-book 5 Released: December 2024 सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः May All Be Free From Illness is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. This book brings together a series of articles written by Dr. Rajeshwari for Renaissance journal which were first published in 2021-2022. Dr. Rajeshwari is a qualified
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Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti engaged in an interaction with Ms. Jayashree Ashok, Co-founder of Creative School, Bengaluru to explore the topic – “Art that Refines, Heals and Transforms: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education.” The interactive session explored how in addition to facilitating the development of an aesthetic appreciation, a meaningfully and consciously
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Date: November 25, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 5 A New India: The Birth of a Spiritual Nation The fulfillment of Sri Aurobindo’s dreams is not a distant, utopian vision—it is an achievable reality waiting to be claimed by our collective will and action. A new India, where every citizen enjoys freedom, equity, justice, peace, harmony, progress,
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Date: November 21, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the Sri Aurobindo Society’s annual seminar of the Women’s Council, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk. The 2024 theme of the seminar was – Protection. For her hour-long session, Dr. Mehra chose the topic – Divine Protection: Conditional or
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Date: November 19, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 4 The Legacy of Our Ancestors The practice of Integral Yoga, as outlined by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, provides the spiritual and practical framework to fulfill the dreams of our ancestors. They envisioned not just political freedom but the complete liberation of the human spirit—a new India where
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Dates: 15-17, 2024 Venue: Bharat Nivas, Auroville [India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the
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Dr. Beloo Mehra’s essay titled ‘Spiritual Nationalism and Its Significance for Today’ was recently published in the special commemorative volume of Ritam, a bilingual journal published by Uttarpara Sri Aurobindo Parishad. This special volume brings together articles from various scholars in Sri Aurobindo Studies, and presents a good overview of some of the essential facets
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Date: November 12, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 3 Social Evolution: Crisis and Opportunity Integral Yoga and Integral Human Development teach us that the evolutionary process is not random but guided by a divine force. Our role is to align with this force, to repattern our social systems, and to evolve ourselves and society to a higher
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Author: Beloo MehraDate published: November 7, 2024 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. To Be Like the Ocean is our second blog published on SAIEN platform. To Be Like the Ocean The other day as I read the following lines from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri,
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Date: October 26, 2024 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the last 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, October 26, 2024. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Becoming Conscious of the Psychic
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Date: October 29, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 2 The Role of Integral Yoga in Conscious Evolution Integral Yoga, as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, plays a crucial role in this process of conscious evolution. It is a path that integrates all aspects of life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—towards the realization of the Divine. Through
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Date: October 22, 2024 The demise of Ratan Tata marks the end of an era. An era of visionary leadership that began 100 years back with Jamshedji Tata, that continued through JRD Tata, finally ended with Ratan Tata. Business for the Tatas was not just about making money and getting rich. It was
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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. PHOTO GALLERY As part of its Invoking Shakti children’s workshop series that BhāratShakti team has been
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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
