Date: December 14, 2022 Venue: St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulum, Kochi On 14th December, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to facilitate an interactive session at St. Teresa’s College at Kochi. This was a special outreach event organised as part of the 25th Kochi International Bookfest. The venue being one of the oldest and
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Date: November 21, 2022 Venue: Women’s Council Seminar, Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the 3-day Seminar organised by Women’s Council of Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti delivered a talk on the topic – Women’s Equality and Freedom: Insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Dr. Mehra began her session by sharing
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Date: November 1, 2022 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville WATCH the recording HERE. On November 1, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to participate in the Book Release function organised by Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA), Puducherry Regional Center. The occasion was the official launch of Dr. Ananda Reddy’s new book titled
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Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the decline of civilisation and social decay, a growing vulgarity seems to have taken possession of human life, individual as well as collective, particularly in what concerns aesthetic life and the life of the senses. A
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Date: September 21, 2022 Venue: Online Indian spiritual traditions were never cut-off from life. The attempt of our ancient Indian seers and thinkers was rather to raise all areas of life in the light of the spirit. This included concerns of family life, parenting and even conception, pregnancy and prenatal education. By Choice, not by
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Date: September 16, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch recording HERE. Humanity must become progressively receptive to the light of a greater and higher consciousness, so that it can become a conscious aid in preparing the communal body and mind for the coming of a new race. A conscious
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Date: September 15, 2022 Venue: School of Education, Pondicherry University Click HERE for a full gallery including a few video clips from the workshop. “The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.” ~ Sri
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Start date: August 12, 2022 End date: August 30, 2022 Venue: Online & Pondicherry University A complete gallery of pictures from the event can be accessed HERE. At the invitation of the School of Education, Pondicherry University, a special self-directed learning project for M.Ed. students was designed by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team led by Dr. Beloo
Date: August 19, 2022 Venue: Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society Institute: AuroSrishti, AuroYajna and BhāratShakti AuroSrishti, Sri Aurobindo Society’s Center for Integral Art, Design and Aesthetics, recently conducted a day-long event on August 19 at Matriniketan. For this event titled ‘The Future of Indian Art, Design and Aesthetics in the Light of Integral Yoga,’ Dr. Beloo
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Date: August 15, 2022 Watch full recording of the lecture HERE. At the invitation of Dr. Narendra Joshi, Project Director of Swatantra Bharat 75, a series of lectures organised by Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari and Vivekananda Prabhodini, Mumbai, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society recently delivered an online lecture on the topic – Inner
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Date: August 12, 2022 On August 12, an online orientation was conducted by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team as part of preparation for an upcoming final presentation of a creative project on August 30, 2022. At the invitation of the Dean of School of Education, Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti designed a project for the
Date: August 15, 2022 In our Insightful Conversations series we speak with authors, artists, performers, educators, story-tellers and other creative individuals who are keeping alive, reviving and also giving new forms and expressions to the timeless spirit of Indian culture, history and civilisation. Explore the Series: Insightful Conversations For this special edition in Hindi, we speak
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Dates: July 16-24, 2022 Venue: Aura Book Store, Pondicherry As part of the ongoing series, ‘Re-awakening the Bharata Shakti: Toward an Indian Renaissance’ the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team designed and put together a poster exhibition highlighting Sri Aurobindo’s words on who is an Aryan and how to build Aryan character. This exhibition was displayed at the bookstore-reading room at Aura Experience
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Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo Date: July 16, 2022 Venue: Aura Bookstore-reading room, Beach Road, Pondicherry Watch a few glimpses of the session HERE and HERE. On the evening of July 16, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra, author of ‘Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo’, a book recently published
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Date: June 21, 2022 Venue: Online In 1949 when the Ashram journal “Bulletin d’Éducation Physique” was started by the Mother, Sri Aurobindo gave a message to the Journal and the Association —J.S.A.S.A. (Jeunesse Sportive de l’Ashram de Sri Aurobindo). In this message, Sri Aurobindo wrote about the wide-ranging significance and necessity of sports, games and
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Date: June 9, 2022 Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti was invited by the Dean, School of Education at Pondicherry University to design and offer a one-day online workshop for the students enrolled in Master’s of Education programme at the university. These students are preparing to be teachers of tomorrow. The workshop was part of their
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Dates: May 21-30, 2022 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence, a poster- exhibition titled ‘Bhārata Shakti – Mother India, a Power, a Godhead’ was displayed from May 21 to May 30, 2022 at Ashram Exhibition
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Date: May 21, 2022 Venue: Online One of the greatest secrets revealed by the Indian spiritual knowledge is that only when a human being finds and lives from the inner self, can he or she most embrace the universal being and become one with it. Only when one becomes truly independent, self-possessed and self-ruler (swarāt, master
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Date: May 26, 2022 In continuation of the Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of India’s independence, and as part of the Bhārata Shakti Exhibition event, a half-day seminar was held on May 26th at Sri Aurobindo Society campus. The seminar’s theme was – Toward a New
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