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Women’s Equality and Freedom: Insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: November 21, 2022 Venue: Women’s Council Seminar, Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the 3-day Seminar organised by Women’s Council of Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti delivered a talk on the topic – Women’s Equality and Freedom: Insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Dr. Mehra began her session by sharing […]

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Study Circle – National Value of Art by Sri Aurobindo 

Art and Spirituality, Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

Dates: October 12, 2022 – November 2, 2022  Venue: Online  A month-long study circle was organised by BhāratShakti and AuroSrishti to closely study and reflect on an important writing of Sri Aurobindo, titled ‘National Value of Art.’ The key driving focus behind this study circle was to identify some of the conceptual and pedagogical principles

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Book review: ‘Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis’ – A talk

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: November 1, 2022 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville WATCH the recording HERE. On November 1, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to participate in the Book Release function organised by Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA), Puducherry Regional Center. The occasion was the official launch of Dr. Ananda Reddy’s new book titled

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Educating the Vital – Art Education for Inner Harmony

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

Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the decline of civilisation and social decay, a growing vulgarity seems to have taken possession of human life, individual as well as collective, particularly in what concerns aesthetic life and the life of the senses. A

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India as Envisioned by Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: October 16, 2022 Watch the full recording HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150years of Sri Aurobindo and 75 years of Indian Independence, the Renaissance journal team had invited Dr. Narendra Joshi to deliver a lecture under the ‘India – Our Mother’ lecture series they have been hosting since last year.

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Conscious Conception and Pregnancy: Listening to a Personal Journey

All Life is Yoga, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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Beauty of Nature in ‘Savitri’

Art and Spirituality, Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: September 25, 2022 Watch the full recording HERE. Since October 2021, as part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150years of Sri Aurobindo and 75 years of Indian Independence, Renaissance journal team has been organising monthly lectures under the series – India, Our Mother. For lecture number 11, they invited Dr. Charan Singh Kedarkhandi

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Conscious Parenting: Lessons Learned as a Parent, Educator and Healer

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works

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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Growing Within: A Day-long Workshop for Pondicherry University

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

Date: September 15, 2022 Venue: School of Education, Pondicherry University Click HERE for a full gallery including a few video clips from the workshop. “The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.” ~ Sri

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Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Social Philosophy

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Cultivating Virtues: A Creative Presentation – A project for Pondicherry University students

Courses and Study Groups, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Start date: August 12, 2022 End date: August 30, 2022 Venue: Online & Pondicherry University A complete gallery of pictures from the event can be accessed HERE. At the invitation of the School of Education, Pondicherry University, a special self-directed learning project for M.Ed. students was designed by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team led by Dr. Beloo

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The Transformation – Film screening and Discussion

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: August 30, 2022 Venue: J.N. Auditorium, Pondicherry University In collaboration with the School of Education, Pondicherry University, a special event was held on August 30, 2022 at J.N. Auditorium at Pondicherry University to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence. This event included the screening of the

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Indian Artistic and Literary Culture in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: August 21, 2022 Venue: CESS, Hyderabad – Institute of Human Study Watch the full recording of this talk HERE. To commemorate Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary year, the Institute of Human Study, Hyderabad along with Samvit Kendra and Pragna Bharati under the sponsorship of Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised on August 21,

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Sri Aurobindo’s Exposition of the Integral Foundations of Indian Culture

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, India-Our Mother

Talk by Dr. Beloo Mehra  at National Symposium held at Auro University, Surat Date: August 17, 2022 Venue: Auro University, Surat To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, a National Symposium on the Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo was organized by the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Auro University, Surat.

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Sri Aurobindo on National Value of Art and the Mother on Art and Yoga: Two Talks

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

Date: August 19, 2022 Venue: Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society Institute: AuroSrishti, AuroYajna and BhāratShakti AuroSrishti, Sri Aurobindo Society’s Center for Integral Art, Design and Aesthetics, recently conducted a day-long event on August 19 at Matriniketan. For this event titled ‘The Future of Indian Art, Design and Aesthetics in the Light of Integral Yoga,’ Dr. Beloo

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Inner Transformation for Educational Leadership

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

Date: August 15, 2022 Watch full recording of the lecture HERE. At the invitation of Dr. Narendra Joshi, Project Director of Swatantra Bharat 75, a series of lectures organised by Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari and Vivekananda Prabhodini, Mumbai, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society recently delivered an online lecture on the topic – Inner

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Orientation for Pondicherry University Students for a Group Project on ‘Cultivating Virtues’

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: August 12, 2022 On August 12, an online orientation was conducted by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team as part of preparation for an upcoming final presentation of a creative project on August 30, 2022. At the invitation of the Dean of School of Education, Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti designed a project for the

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