Beloo Mehra

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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A Conversation on Nāṭyaśāstra & Contemporary Indian Society

Date: June 26, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording Since September 2024, BhāratShakti department has been engaged in a year-long exploration of Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, both through the offerings in our online journal Renaissance, as well as various offline and online events we have been organizing and conducting. As part of this

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Conscious Connections: A Webinar Series for Teachers

Start Date: July 9, 2025 End Date: July 11, 2025 Venue: Online BhāratShakti department will be conducting a three-webinar series for 25 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 will be explored during

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Yogic Insights for Business Managers and Leaders

Date: June 20, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording Management Development Institute (MDI), Murshidabad invited Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society, to be part of a special Faculty Research Seminar Series on June 20, 2025.  The Faculty Research Seminar Series aims to bring forward conversations that help faculty members and research scholars connect

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Sadhana of India – Talk for IYD 2025

Date: June 17, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to

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Harmony Within and Without – Talk for IYD 2025

Date: June 16, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 7 – Beloo Mehra

Date: June 17, 2025 Part 7: On Disinterested Duty and Divine Obligation to Act Continued from Part 6 In continuation of what was discussed in the previous part, it is important to reflect a little on why Sri Aurobindo cautions that it is a mistake to interpret the Gita from the standpoint of today’s mentality. Such

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 6 – Beloo Mehra

Date: June 3, 2025 Part 6: Karmayoga – The Yoga of Works Continued from Part 5 Arjuna seems perplexed after listening to the deep metaphysical truths given by Sri Krishna regarding the permanence of the Atman, the way of being of the yogin stationed in the true self-knowledge, and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. Seeking

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Light on Human Relationships – An Interactive Session for Uditam

Date: May 31, 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, May 31, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Light on Human Relationships. After some general

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Love, Human Relations and New Consciousness – An Online Course

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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Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers

Start date: May 20, 2025 End date: May 21, 2025 Venue: DAV Public School, Kaggalipura, Bengaluru At the invitation of the School Governing Council and Administration of Dayanand Arya Vidya School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team of Sri Aurobindo Society designed and conducted a 2-day workshop for their teachers during their annual professional development week in

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The Indian Painting – May 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 5Date: May 21, 2025 The attempt to express in form and limit something of that which is formless and illimitable is the attempt of Indian art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 8, p. 64 Art historian Stella Kramrisch states that the art of painting has played an important role in the

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 5 – Beloo Mehra

Date: May 20, 2025 Part 5: Sānkhya Yoga – 2 Continued from Part 4 In the next several verses is expounded Gita’s teaching of the Buddhi-yoga, the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. This teaching builds upon two foundations: a) the Vedantic Sānkhya of the Upanishads and b) Yoga, a principally subjective practice and inner change which

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 4 – Beloo Mehra

Date: May 6, 2025 Part 4: Sānkhya Yoga – I Continued from Part 3 Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita begins with Sri Krishna giving a jolt to Arjuna when he asks – How and from where has this stain and darkness of the soul entered into you in the hour of difficulty and peril? In order

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 3 – Beloo Mehra

Date: April 22, 2025 Part 3: Arjuna Viṣhāda Yoga – The Yoga of Arjuna’s Dejection Continued from Part 2 On the battlefield of Kurukshetra when Arjuna, the representative man of his age, is overcome with dejection and sorrow at the most critical moment of his life, he raises a fundamental question regarding human life and

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K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Memorial Lecture: Glimpses from ‘Sitayana: Epic of the Earth-born’

Date: April 17, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai Watch the Recording HERE Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a foremost scholar of English literature, highly acclaimed and well-awarded for his invaluable academic contributions. But as aspiring children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo what we value and admire most about him is his deep and

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The Sculptural Art of India – April 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 4Date: April 21, 2025 E.B. Havell, the famous British art historian, said that a golden thread of Vedic thought bound together all varied strands of Indian art—Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Sikh, and even Indo-Saracenic—in spite of their outer, theological, ritualistic and dogmatic differences. Also, because art is primarily subjective, it is

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Book Discussion – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys

Date: April 15, 2025 Venue: Palais de Mahe, Pondicherry Watch the recording HERE. As part of BhāratShakti’s Samvād series of events in which selected books are discussed in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s vision, the latest book to be taken up was — Antaryatra: Soul Journeys, written by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. This took

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