Date: December 3, 2022 Watch the livestream of the event HERE. “To do the work that one does with all sincerity, as perfectly as one can, is certainly one of the best ways to serve the Divine.” (The Mother, CWM, 14: 307) Since June 2021, every issue of Renaissance, the monthly journal of Sri Aurobindo […]
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Date: September 21, 2022 Venue: Online Indian spiritual traditions were never cut-off from life. The attempt of our ancient Indian seers and thinkers was rather to raise all areas of life in the light of the spirit. This included concerns of family life, parenting and even conception, pregnancy and prenatal education. By Choice, not by
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Date: September 16, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch recording HERE. Humanity must become progressively receptive to the light of a greater and higher consciousness, so that it can become a conscious aid in preparing the communal body and mind for the coming of a new race. A conscious
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Date: September 8, 2022 Venue: Savitri Bhavan, Auroville Watch the recording of the talk HERE. As part of its celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Auroville Foundation and Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised a 5-day programme called ‘Integral Yoga Week’ which aimed to highlight a few essential insights from some of
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Date: June 18, 2022 Venue: Antioch University, USA Watch a recording of this talk HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra from Sri Aurobindo Society was recently invited to deliver a talk at the IMA Colloquium organised by Antioch University, Ohio, USA. This event was part of the Individualised Master of Arts programme of the university and was
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Date: May 2, 2022 Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to participate in and deliver a talk at the seminar titled ‘Relevance of Sri Aurobindo in the Contemporary World’ organised by Pondicherry University. The seminar held on May 2, 2022 was organised by School of International Relations in collaboration with Forum for Awareness of National Security.
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Workshop: Svādhyāya III: Work and Yoga Dates: January 15, 2022 – March 26, 2022 The Mother once said that reading the words of Sri Aurobindo “opens the doors of the future to us” (CWM, 12: 214). She also advises – “It is not by books that Sri Aurobindo ought to be studied but by subjects
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Start Date: APRIL 9, 2022 End Date: JUNE 18, 2022 Location: Online This study group provided the participants an opportunity to experience the Living Force and Power of the Words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother through a focused programme of self-study and a weekly shared reflection session. TOPIC: THE WAY OF DEVOTION Primary readings
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This was a special session in Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing Svādhyāya on ‘Work and Yoga’ (organised by BhāratShakti and AuroYajna). Read the full report of the Svādhyāya III HERE. Topic: Integral Yoga at Work: Book Discussion and Interactive Session Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Larry Seidlitz, author and scholar-practitioner of Integral Yoga Date: Saturday, March 19,
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Prayer is one of the most common practices we have to connect with the Divine, to establish a relation with the Divine. Whether it is for a small personal, material object or some larger and less self-centered one, most of us have often called and prayed to some higher Power or higher Being. The very
Workshop: Svādhyāya II: Money and Yoga Dates: December 4 – December 18, 2021 The Mother once said that reading the words of Sri Aurobindo “opens the doors of the future to us” (CWM, 12: 214). She also advises – “It is not by books that Sri Aurobindo ought to be studied but by subjects —
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Workshop: Svādhyāya I: Human Relations in Yoga Dates: September 11 – November 20, 2021 The Mother once said that reading the words of Sri Aurobindo “opens the doors of the future to us” (CWM, 12: 214). She also advises – “It is not by books that Sri Aurobindo ought to be studied but by subjects
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Date: June 21, 2021 Venue: Online Renaissance journal team invited Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Director of the Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research (CYTER), and Professor of Yoga Therapy at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, for an interview on this topic, which is also the subject of his new e-book. Yogacharya Dr. Bhavanani shared
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June 21, 2019 Location: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of its events to commemorate the 5th International Yoga Day, a Special Lecture was organised on June 21, 2019 by Prof. Devdas Menon of IIT-Madras. Prof. Menon’s inspiring lecture, titled “Looking for separate self….and never, never finding it.” Prof. Gurmeet Singh, Hon’ble Vice-chancellor of Pondicherry University
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Start Date:11-Apr-2019 End Date:12-Apr-2019 Location:Sri Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Mahavidyalaya (SCSVMV), Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu On April 11–12, 2019, Sri Aurobindo Society and Department of Sanskrit and Indian Culture, Sri Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Mahavidyalaya (SCSVMV) jointly organized a ‘National Seminar on Prenatal Education: Ancient Indian Perspectives’. The guiding idea behind this national seminar, or rather the whole
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Date: February 26, 2019 Venue: Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University On February 26, 2019 Dr. Beloo Mehra delivered a special lecture on the topic – “LIFE BEAUTIFUL: HARMONY WITHIN AND WITHOUT” at the Department of Applied Psychology at Pondicherry University. Starting with a brief elaboration of a key point made by Sri Aurobindo that
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