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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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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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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Date: June 2, 2025 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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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
Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers Read More »
Date: May 26, 2025 Part 2: The Light of Kashi “As those who dwell in Shiva’s sacred city of Kashi are liberated by the auspicious touch of the Lord, so all this Aryan country where the Goddess has set her purifying feet shall be the Kashi of the world.” ॥97॥ ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bhavani Bharati, verse 97
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Date: 8 May, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recordings Sri Aurobindo once wrote about Rabindranath Tagore: “Tagore has been a wayfarer towards the same goal as ours in his own way — that is the main thing, the exact stage of advance and putting of the steps are minor matters. His exact position as a
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Date: April 24, 2025 Part 1: Introduction These are times when Nature is attempting at certain goals and Human Unity is undoubtedly one of them. Globalization on commercial front and Travel on the leisure front have been her tools. Like other movements of human development, travel, too has trends following the natural quest of the
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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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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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Date: 25 March, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch Glimpses “Music, no doubt, goes nearest to the infinite and to the essence of things because it relies wholly on the ethereal vehicle, śabda…”~ Sri Aurobindo As part of the year-long exploration of ‘Spirit and Forms of Indian Art’ the BhāratShakti department organised a special evening programme
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 3Date: March 21, 2025 After last month’s special offering which included the release of the first issue of Renaissance Redux, and the launch of Children’s Corner, along with rich content related to appreciation of Indian art and a book review, we are happy to bring another special issue this month. The focus
The Mother as an Artist – March 2025, Renaissance Read More »
Date: February 28, 2025 Venue: The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited as an expert speaker at a National Seminar on Ideas of India’s Eminent Educational Thinkers and Transformative Learning through NEP2020, jointly organized by the School of International Studies, Central University of Gujarat, and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 2Date: February 21-24, 2025 We continue our exploration of the spirit and forms of Indian Art through a variety of offerings in the February 2025 issue. The issue focuses on a 2-part article by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Renaissance Editor, titled An Intuitive and Spiritual Eye to Appreciate Indian Art. Sri
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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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Date: February 15, 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 session on Saturday, February 15, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Love and Relationships. The session opened
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Date: February 8, 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 session on Saturday, February 15, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Inner Progress and Education for Life.
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Date: 27 January, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata Listen to the recording HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited by Sri Aurobindo Society, West Bengal State Committee to speak on the topic – “Integral Education and a Teacher’s Dharma”. This event was held on January 27, 2025 at Sri Aurobindo
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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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Date: January 11, 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 session on Saturday, January 11, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Psychic Spark and Our Inner
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