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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving – A Session with College Students

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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From Love Human to Love Divine – A session for Uditam

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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The Veda and the Vedic Spirit – Online Symposium

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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Poster Exhibition – Sri Aurobindo is as Vast as the Universe

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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देवी अहिल्याबाई होल्कर, नारी शक्ति का एक प्रज्जवलित उदाहरण – सुमन कोचर

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 add more force to

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On Nationalism, Patriotism and Significance of August 7 – Beloo Mehra

Sri Aurobindo once wrote that more than the disunity, it was the lack of national feeling among Indians which made the British so easily conquer India. In this context he described the essential difference between national consciousness and patriotism, which he said are two different qualities. “The patriot lives in a rapture of service to

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Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother – An Interactive Session with Educational Leaders

Date: 24 July 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society An Interactive Session with a group of educational leaders visiting from CN Vidyavihar Group of Institutions, Ahmedabad was organised by the BhāratShakti team on 24th July, at Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. The session was conceived of as a preliminary orientation on the Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya: Two-day Intensive for Teachers on ‘Insights from Itihāsas, Purānas and Upanishads’

Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, Karnataka BhāratShakti team has been 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,

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Invoking Shakti: Four-day Workshop on ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’

Dates: September 24-27, 2024 Venue: The Creative School and Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team has been 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’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and youth titled

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Integral Perspective on Conflict Resolution – Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra

Date: July 15, 2024 The integral perspective on conflict resolution calls for individual and collective praxis towards building a peaceful and harmonious society. This call is grounded in an evolutionary perspective, which holds that Nature is evolving, often towards a more positive, prosperous, and peaceful direction though the process might be tardy and conflictual due

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Devi Ahilyabai Holkar and Bhāratiya Resurgence

Date: June 22, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the recordings HERE and HERE. “In the political field [India] never ceased to throw up great rulers, statesmen, soldiers, administrators….in the political field it never ceased to throw up great rulers, statesmen, soldiers, administrators. Its political genius was not in the decadence sufficient, not coherent enough or swift in vision

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“To make Yoga the ideal of human life India rises today”

Date: June 21, 2024 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING On June 21, 2024, the 10th International Day of Yoga, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society to deliver an online talk as part of the AuroYajna’s celebration of the IDY 2024. The larger theme for IDY celebration was Yoga and

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Nalanda Lives Again – Narendra Murty

Date: June 25, 2024 Nalanda burnt for nine days. Now after centuries, Nalanda has risen again like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes. Civilization always had to defend itself against the forces of barbarism, often unsuccessfully. Nalanda as a university existed 500 years even before the famed European universities of Oxford and Paris came into

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