Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issues 7-8
Date: August 21, 2025
Greetings for this special month of August!
Renaissance, our online journal, brings several rich offerings in the month of August 2025. A special post released on August 1 featured guidance from Sri Aurobindo on how we can make every August 15 a definitive step in our inner progress on the Sunlit Path. A 16-page periodical on the theme ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Avatar of the Future‘ was released on August 15. Seven new offerings were released on August 21.
On this birthday of Sri Aurobindo, and also of the modern nation of India that is Bharat, we must take a closer look at the work ahead. The modern nation-state of India carries deep within herself the truths of a millennia old civilisation. As modern India inches toward her 100th birthday, which will be 175th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, we must regain a solid grounding in the eternal spirit which has for long nourished and enriched this land, its people, its culture — materially, intellectually, and spiritually. This recovery requires sādhana, it necessitates tapasyā – at individual and collective levels.
Read in the current issue profound words of Sri Aurobindo describing the New Spiritual Ideal and the immense power that an idea holds within itself to shape the world’s destiny. Nolini Kanta Gupta reminds us that even though the ideal of the Life Divine may appear difficult or chimerical to the normal mind, it has always been the preoccupation of the inner being of man. Sujata Nahar writes about the mighty pen of Sri Aurobindo, and V.V. Athalye gives an eye-witness account from the time when Sri Aurobindo was actively engaged in politics.
Beloo Mehra in her editorial emphasises that as modern India inches toward her 100th birthday, which will be 175th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, we must regain a solid grounding in the eternal spirit which has for long nourished and enriched this land, its people, its culture — materially, intellectually, and spiritually. This recovery requires sādhana, it necessitates tapasyā – at individual and collective levels. Sunil Kumar helps us reimagine a new India and reminds us of the essential work that is necessary for the rebirth of India’s timeless spirit in new forms.
