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Utsaha – Celebrating the Joyful and Contemplative Spirit of Navaratri

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Date: September 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society On September 23, 2025, the BhāratShakti team organised a workshop titled UTSAHA: Celebrating the Joyful and Contemplative Spirit of Navaratri  for the students of Sri Aurobindo Centenary School, Tadipatri, Anantapur Dist, Andhra Pradesh. This 2-hour programme was organised at Sri Aurobindo Society. Participants included 50 students from Class […]

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150-Poster Exhibition on Ajanta and Ellora

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Start Date: September 15, 2025 End Date: October 31, 2025 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Bengaluru As part of the Invoking Shakti: Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana workshop BhāratShakti department was invited to design and conduct for 375 students of Creative School, Bengaluru, Dr. Beloo Mehra researched and curated a 150-poster extensive exhibition on Ajanta and

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 13 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: September 9, 2025 Part 13: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 3 Continued from Part 12 Karmayoga and Equality The Gita attaches immense importance in its elements of Karmayoga to equality; “it is the nodus of the free spirit’s free relations with the world,” says Sri Aurobindo. For one who is always withdrawn

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Spiritual Nationalism of Sri Aurobindo – Two Sessions for College Students

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Dates: September 2-3, 2025 Venue: Online At the invitation of the Department of Political Science, St. Xavier’s College, which is affiliated to University of Mumbai, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti conducted two sessions on the topic ‘Spiritual Nationalism of Sri Aurobindo’ with 35 students of B.A. (Political Science, Third Year). These sessions were part of

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The Yogi Revolutionary Work of Sri Aurobindo – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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Date: August 23, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion on Saturday, August 23, 2025. All the participants were working at Auro Schools. Considering that we just celebrated Sri Aurobindo’s birthday and

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 12 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: August 26, 2025 Part 12: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 2 Continued from Part 11 We continue our brief study of the signs of a Divine Worker. A divine worker is free from the desire of the fruits of action and is conscious of working only as an instrument of the Divine

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Celebrating Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna: An Online Satsang

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Date: August 16, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the recordings HERE and HERE. To celebrate Sri Aurobindo’s birthday and Sri Krishna Janmashtami, BhāratShakti organised an online satsang on Saturday, August 16, 2025. The programme included a few short talks (in English and Hindi) highlighting a few aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s and Sri Krishna’s Divine Personalities and

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Talk by Beloo Mehra on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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Date: August 13, 2025 Venue: IGNCA, Regional Centre Puducherry, Art and Craft Village, Puducherry The Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi has designated the 14th of August as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day to honor the memory of those who endured immense suffering and made profound sacrifices during the partition of India in 1947. In

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 11 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: August 12, 2025 Part 11: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action -1 Continued from Part 10 Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna’s question on how to reconcile Karmayoga and the renunciation of works. He wants Sri Krishna to tell him with a clear decisiveness which of these is the better way.

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 8 – Narendra Murty

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Date: August 4, 2025 Part 8: About Mythology Continued from Part 7 The art of symbolism has been used extensively in the area of mythology in Sanatana Dharma.  Plato described myths as fictional stories that illustrated Truth. In other words, myths are an expression of some deeper truths through the medium of stories and vivid imagery.

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 10 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: July 29, 2025 Part 10: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 3 Continued from Part 9 In the next few verses in the chapter on Yoga of Knowledge, Sri Krishna elaborates on the idea of sacrifice. He speaks of the psychological disciplines by which seekers of higher self-possession and self-knowledge practice and develop self-control

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Traveling through Bhārat – 3 – Lakshmijyothi C.

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Date: July 22, 2025 Part 3: Trichy – The Glorious Splendour of the Divine Tiruchirappalli, more commonly known as Trichy, is the quintessence of the glory of the externalisation of Indian spiritual culture that evolved to a zenith in the Tamilakam region and still remains unique to itself. The bustling large town has retained the

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Exploring Hampi as a Template for Inner Architecture

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Date: July 18, 2025 Venue: Aurodhan Gallery BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society was one of the collaborators for the Pondicherry Invention Festival (July 18-20, 2025) organised by Aurodhan, Pondicherry under the theme “Invent in India”. On July 18, 2025, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, participated as a panelist at a session titled ‘Exploring Hampi as a

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 9 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: July 15, 2025 Part 9: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 2 Continued from Part 8 The Avatāra and the Dharma As the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, focusing on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge, unfolds further, we get a deeper understanding of the work of the Divine when it descends in

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Teachers of the Mahabharata – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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Date: July 12, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Most of the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo Society, for her session,

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 7 – Narendra Murty

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Date: July 10, 2025 Part 7: Understanding Hindu Rituals – Teerth Yatra Continued from Part 6 Teerth Yatra or Pilgrimage has been a part of the religious life of almost all the religions. The physical journey in the outer dimension is actually a symbol of an inner spiritual quest. In olden days, a pilgrimage always implied

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 8 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: July 1, 2025 Part 8: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 1 Continued from Part 7 The fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge. It opens with Sri Krishna telling Arjuna that it was He who had revealed this highest secret, this imperishable Yoga, to the Sun-God

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Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri – Talk by Ananda Reddy

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Date: June 23, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of a natural follow-up to a webinar titled ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-Poet‘, organised by BhāratShakti on December 7, 2024 a special online talk was organised on June 23, 2025 on the topic “Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri.”    The invited speaker for

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Sadhana of India – Talk for IYD 2025

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Date: June 17, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 7 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: June 17, 2025 Part 7: On Disinterested Duty and Divine Obligation to Act Continued from Part 6 In continuation of what was discussed in the previous part, it is important to reflect a little on why Sri Aurobindo cautions that it is a mistake to interpret the Gita from the standpoint of today’s mentality. Such

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