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Talk by Beloo Mehra on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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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Invoking Shakti: Three-day Workshop on ‘Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’

Dates: September 15-17, 2025 Venue: Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team has been invited to curate and conduct a 3-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 10-18) on the theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and youth titled ‘Invoking Shakti’ developed by the

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Renaissance Redux – Release of Third Issue of BhāratShakti’s Quarterly Publication

Date: August 15, 2025 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features selections from the vast archives of the online journal Renaissance which has been published since 2019 and presents them in a thematic manner. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each

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

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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What is Shakti – An Interactive Session for Uditam

Date: August 1, 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 Friday, August 1, 2025. All the participants were women, and many of them being teachers working at Auro Schools; so for

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 8 – Narendra Murty

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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Launch of ‘The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle’

Date: August 1, 2025 Venue: Online In the special month of August, BhāratShakti department under the guidance of Vijaybhai launched a new BI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION – The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle. The first issue of this e-publication was circulated with a special note from Vijaybhai. He wrote: Sri Aurobindo Circle was started with the Mother’s blessings from Bombay

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

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.

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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Sri Aurobindo as a Teacher – An Interactive Session for Uditam

Date: July 19, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan Listen to the Recording 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 19, 2025. Most of the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo

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Exploring Hampi as a Template for Inner Architecture

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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A Course for Karmayogi Bharat, a Govt. of India Initiative

Date: July 16, 2025 Venue: Online – iGOT Karmayogi Earlier this year, an MoU was signed between Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS) and Karmayogi Bharat, a Government of India initiative under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). Under this MoU, Karmayogi Bharat and SAS decided to work together in actively building capacity of

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

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

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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Conscious Connections: A Webinar Series for Teachers

Start Date: July 9, 2025 End Date: July 11, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the recordings HERE and HERE. BhāratShakti department conducted a three-webinar series for selected teachers of Sri Aurobindo Center of New Education, Jodhpur on the theme: Conscious Connections: Exploring Aspects of Individual and Collective Life. Using an interactive format, the following three topics were

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 7 – Narendra Murty

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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The Yogic Attitude Towards Money

Renaissance E-book 6 Editor: Dr. Beloo Mehra Released: July 2025 The Yogic Attitude Towards Money is a Free eBook available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have given us the ideal attitude that a sādhaka of Integral Yoga must cultivate towards money. A sādhaka must neither turn

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Seeing the Whole Child – Foreword for the book ‘A Child’s Journey’

Author: Beloo Mehra Release Date: June 28, 2025 Publisher: The Healing Circle, Bengaluru In April 2025, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to write a Foreword for an upcoming book titled ‘A Child’s Journey’. The book authored by Jayashree Ashok, published by The Healing Circle, Bengaluru, was launched on June 28, 2025 at Creative

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

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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School as a Place for Teachers’ Progress – Interactive Session for Uditam

Date: June 28, 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, June 28, 2025. As all the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo Society, for her session,

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