Date: June 21, 2024 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING On June 21, 2024, the 10th International Day of Yoga, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society to deliver an online talk as part of the AuroYajna’s celebration of the IDY 2024. The larger theme for IDY celebration was Yoga and […]
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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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Date: June 24, 2024 While speaking of the nature of Indian Renaissance Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is an attempt and impulse of a “reawakened national spirit” expressing itself in new forms which shall give the spiritual force for a great reshaping and rebuilding. Out of this awakening vision and impulse, the future tendency
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 6 Date: June 21, 2024 In the previous issue we featured a few letters of Sri Aurobindo where he discusses the desirability of limiting social contacts but without going into an absolute isolation or retirement. In the current issue we feature a few passages from the Mother’s works to deepen our understanding
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Date: June 13, 2024 Venue: Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry On June 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited as a panelist for the National Conference on “Yoga for Women Empowerment” organized by School of Yoga Therapy, Institute of Salutogenesis & Complementary Medicine of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth in collaboration with Morarji Desai National Institute
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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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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 5 Date: May 21, 2024 We continue our series on Streams of Sadhana by focusing our attention to the place of Silence and Solitude in Sadhana. For the silence to settle in, in each part of oneself, intense sādhana is called for. A lifetime of tapasyā may not be enough, and yet to attain
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Date: May 3, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research, Pondicherry As part of its offerings on the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry launched a project titled Sri Aurobindo: A Visionary Among World Thinkers. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, this project has
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Date: April 24, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On April 24, 2024, Mr Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited as a Guest Lecturer by Jindal Global Business School, a specialised institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Mr. Murty gave a presentation on “Seven Steps to Integral Leadership” to the first-year students pursuing
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Start Date: 22 April, 2024 End Date: 15 May, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat A poster exhibition curated by the BhāratShakti team is currently on display at the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat. Dr. Rajeshwari Singh, President of the Sadhana Kendra had requested for some meaningful content for
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 4 Date: April 21, 2024 On April 21, we released our second issue exploring the theme – Divine in Nature. We hope our readers enjoyed going through the previous issue which dealt more with the philosophical basis for the topic. In this issue we turn our attention toward how
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Date: April 8, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University Watch the Recording. On April 8, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at the Inauguration ceremony of an International Conference on ‘Future Communications: Rethinking Societies, Cultures and Governance’ organized by the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communications, School of Media and Communications, Pondicherry
Date: March 29, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them; it is a subtle and fragrant language.” ~ The Mother Photo Gallery of the Event On March 29, 2024, the BhāratShakti and Renaissance Journal team organised a special programme as part of their two-month-long exploration
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Start date: November 23, 2023 End date: March 12, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University On Siddhi Divas, November 24, 2023 we announced that under our ongoing partnership with Pondicherry University (the official MoU was signed in August 2023) we had launched a new post-graduate course on ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’. Much hard work by Dr.
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Date: March 6, 2024 The Renaissance journal team curated and conducted an interactive session with the college students and faculty of Tagore Govt. Arts and Science College, Pondicherry on the theme of Humour and Spirituality — Exploring how humour has been used as a method to impart spiritual wisdom. The initial planning was done by
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Date: 27 February 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording On 27th February, 2024, Renaissance team organised a special event at Sri Aurobindo Society to felicitate Sri Kiran Vyas Ji who was recently awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Sri Kiran Vyas is an ex-student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of
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Date: March 4, 2024 Renaissance Journal team and Auropublications team invited Lopa Mukherjee for the second edition of their series – SAMVĀD which celebrates Authors, Books, and Booklovers. The programme was held on March 4, 2024 at the ground floor hall of Sri Aurobindo Society. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance Journal and Ms. Gayatri Majumdar,
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Date: February 26, 2024 Venue: Unity Pavillion, Auroville Watch the Recording with relevant images from the presentation. As part of the Shakti Kumbh 2024, a 9-day event held at Unity Pavilion, Auroville from February 21-29, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on February 26 on the topic – Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol. The
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Date: February 26, 2024 A group of 10 students and 1 faculty member from Flame University, Pune visited Sri Aurobindo Society in the last week of February for a series of educational events and interactions. This visit was part of their ongoing research project on Integral Education. On behalf of Sri Aurobindo Society, SAFIER (Sri
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Date: 28 February, 2024 Venue: The Dorian House Writers Retreat, Auroville “I can only say generally avoid over-writing; let all your sentences be the vehicle of something worth saying and say it with a vivid precision neither defective nor excessive.” ~ Sri Aurobindo On February 28, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Renaissance author and core team
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