Education for New India – BhāratShakti

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision for a True National Education

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Upcoming Programmes

Date: 28 January, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University The Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University organizes Sri Aurobindo Memorial Lecture every year to commemorate his birth ceremony. This year Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society, has been invited to deliver the 40th Sri Aurobindo Memorial lecture […]

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Love and Human Relationships

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: January 11, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the Annual Youth Camp 2025 organised by AuroYouth, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to conduct an interactive session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11, 2025 focused on the topic ‘Love and Human Relationships’. The purpose of this interactive session was

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Integral Education and a Teacher’s Dharma – Talk in Kolkata

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Upcoming Programmes

Date: 27 January, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti has been invited by Sri Aurobindo Society, West Bengal State Committee to speak on the topic – “Integral Education and a Teacher’s Dharma”. This event will be held on January 27, 2025 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8, Shakespeare

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Our Culture, Our Pride – Day-long Workshop for Gurukulam Students

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: December 27, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Sangama, Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a day-long workshop for about 70 students (ages 12-16) on the theme – “Our Culture, Our Pride” on 27th December, 2024 at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka. Om Shanti Dhama is a Registered Charitable

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A Conversation on Art for Chittashuddhi, Purification of the Heart

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: December 14, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the recording of this conversation HERE. As part of our year-long exploration on The Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, BhāratShakti team recently invited Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Ms. Cyntha Gonzales for a conversation on the topic – Art for Chittashuddhi, Purification of the Heart. The topic was

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Aim of Integral Education and Role of a Teacher

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Workshops

Date: December 18, 2024 Venue: GIET Degree College, Rajmundhry Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks at an educational workshop organized by GIET Degree College, Rajmundhry in association with Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Puducherry. The workshop titled “Integral Education for Teachers” was held on 18th December 2024 at GIET Degree College in

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An Interdisciplinary Learning Project on Hampi

Education for New India, Exhibitions, Past Works

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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सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः May All Be Free From Illness

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

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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Arts-based Learning: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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Exhibition on Cultivating Soul-values – Courage, Faith and Concentration

Education for New India, Exhibitions, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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Human Relations in Integral Yoga

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

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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Invoking Shakti: 4-day Workshop on ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith And Concentration’

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya – Teachers’ Workshop on Insights from Itihāsas, Purānas and Upanishads

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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,

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Book launch – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys by Beloo Mehra

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: September 13, 2024 Venue: Tagore Government Arts and Science College Watch the RECORDING 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,

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving – A Session with College Students

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

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

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Themes

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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Nalanda Lives Again – Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, Current Concerns, Education for New India

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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Yuva Shakti – Cultivating Virtues for Self-growth

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: May 30, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India’s future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas

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