Date: February 24, 2024 The written word is perhaps the most powerful medium for ideas in the manifest world. Seers talk of the various states of Vāk (speech), of which Vaikharī is the grossest and most tangible form, and yet only accounts for the spoken word. While the spoken word used in its full capacity can […]
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Author: Beloo Mehra Journal: Śraddhā Date of Publication: February 2025 A new article by Dr. Beloo Mehra was recently published in Śraddhā, Vol.16 No.3. This joournal is pubished by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences, Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata. Gṛhasthadharma: The Evolving Ideals for a HouseholderEXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE “Grihastha life, meaning marriage and
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Start Date: April 26, 2025 End Date: May 24, 2025 Venue: Online Love and relationships are at the root of all human life as lived in our familial and societal contexts. But ordinarily, most people do not take the trouble to examine and understand the nature of these two things. Consequently, we go through life
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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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Dates: 27th to 29th December, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Sangama-Mekedatu, Kanakpura, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team conducted a 2-day Residential Retreat on the theme – “Yoga in Everyday Life” on 28th and 29th December, 2024 at Sri Aurobindo Dhama, located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river in Sangama-Mekedatu
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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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Date: December 4, 2024 Venue: Online The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as a part of life and made it subservient to life. ~ The Mother, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 108 As part of our ongoing year-long exploration of the topic – “The Spirit and Forms of Art in
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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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Date: November 25, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 5 A New India: The Birth of a Spiritual Nation The fulfillment of Sri Aurobindo’s dreams is not a distant, utopian vision—it is an achievable reality waiting to be claimed by our collective will and action. A new India, where every citizen enjoys freedom, equity, justice, peace, harmony, progress,
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Date: November 19, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 4 The Legacy of Our Ancestors The practice of Integral Yoga, as outlined by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, provides the spiritual and practical framework to fulfill the dreams of our ancestors. They envisioned not just political freedom but the complete liberation of the human spirit—a new India where
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Dates: November 15-17, 2024 Venue: Bharat Nivas, Auroville [India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in
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Date: November 12, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 3 Social Evolution: Crisis and Opportunity Integral Yoga and Integral Human Development teach us that the evolutionary process is not random but guided by a divine force. Our role is to align with this force, to repattern our social systems, and to evolve ourselves and society to a higher
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Date: October 29, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 2 The Role of Integral Yoga in Conscious Evolution Integral Yoga, as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, plays a crucial role in this process of conscious evolution. It is a path that integrates all aspects of life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—towards the realization of the Divine. Through
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Date: October 22, 2024 The demise of Ratan Tata marks the end of an era. An era of visionary leadership that began 100 years back with Jamshedji Tata, that continued through JRD Tata, finally ended with Ratan Tata. Business for the Tatas was not just about making money and getting rich. It was
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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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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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Date: October 10, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 1 India’s Role as a Spiritual Leader – Guiding the World Toward Unity and Peace To fulfill Sri Aurobindo’s dreams, India must embrace its role as a spiritual leader on the global stage. This leadership is not about asserting dominance but about offering a path to unity and
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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,
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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Date: September 21, 2024 Editor’s note: We are happy to feature a series of blogs by Preeti Mahurkar on the theme of “A New India Arising” inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Five Dreams’. Preeti Mahurkar is a highly accomplished life coach, certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner, emotional intelligence trainer, and career counselor with over 25 years
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