Education

Krīḍā- Making Indian Games Cool! A conversation with authors of ‘The Games India Plays’

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Self-development for Student-teachers: An online workshop for M.Ed. students

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: June 9, 2022 Venue: Online 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

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Bringing Indian Culture in Schools: An Educationist’s Experience and Insights

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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Seminar – Toward a New India: Prospects and Challenges

Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 26, 2022 Venue: Pondicherry University 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 –

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Learner as a soul-in-evolution and Dharma-centric Education

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 6, 2022 Recording of the talk available HERE. On May 6, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based on the idea

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An Orientation Programme for Pondicherry University School of Education

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: April 29, 2022 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society On April 29, 2022, a group of 38 university students and research scholars visited Sri Aurobindo Society for a 2-hour orientation programme. The group included M.Ed. students from School of Education, Pondicherry University and from NIEPMD (National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities). The visit

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The Timeless Tradition of Storytelling – An Art that Educates, Inspires and Elevates

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: April 21, 2022 Venue: Online For this month’s Insightful Conversation, we speak with Ms. Deepa Kiran, an award-winning storyteller of international repute. She share with us some thoughts and perspectives on how storytelling can be a powerful means to entertain, educate, inspire and elevate. Ms. Kiran is the founder of Hyderabad-based Story Arts Foundation,

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Virtues as Empowerment: Understanding Shakuntala in Mahābhārata

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Public Lecture: Virtues as Empowerment: Understanding Shakuntala in Mahābhārata Speaker: Dr. Geetesh Nirban Date: April 17, 2022 Watch the full recording of the event HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), we have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under

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Workshop: Cultivating Character and Inner Beauty through Arts in Education

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Dates: March 12-13, 2022 Aurovidya Seminar: NEP 2020 and Integral Education Title of the Workshop: Cultivating Character and Inner Beauty through Arts in Education Designed and conducted by: Dr. Beloo Mehra, SAS and Ms. Jayashree Ashok, Creative School, Bengaluru As part of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations, the Hyderabad-based Institute of Human Study and

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Integral Yoga at Work: Book Discussion and Interactive Session

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

This was a special session in Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing Svādhyāya on ‘Work and Yoga’ (organised by BhāratShakti and AuroYajna).  Read the full report of the Svādhyāya III HERE. Topic: Integral Yoga at Work: Book Discussion and Interactive Session Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Larry Seidlitz, author and scholar-practitioner of Integral Yoga Date: Saturday, March 19,

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Cultivating Inner Beauty through Arts in Education – An Overview of the Workshop

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: January 8, 2022 As part of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations, Institute of Human Study and Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad organized Aurovidya Seminar, a 2-day workshop plus seminar exploring the integration of New Education Policy 2020 and Integral Education as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This intensive program was scheduled

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Indian Approach to Psychology: An Educator’s Experience and Insights

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: December 21, 2021 Venue: Online For this month’s insightful conversation, we focus on an educator’s experience of working with college students on Indian approach to psychology, or what she calls as Psychology of the Self. Dr. Aditi Kaul works at Auro University, Surat, which is inspired by the ideals and teachings of Sri Aurobindo

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From Vedanta to Sri Aurobindo – A Youth’s Seeking for Truth

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Speaker: Dr. Shivaram Prasad Date: November 28, 2021 Full recording available HERE. “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 and cannot

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Krishna’s Butter: Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: November 21, 2021 Venue: Online For our insightful conversations series, this month we bring a delightful and inspiring conversation with Dr. Bhawana Badhe and Mr. Sushrut Badhe on the topic: Krishna’s Butter – Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth. Moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, the conversation brings to light the inspiration

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A Creative Gurukul for a New Age

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: October 21, 2021 Venue: Online “The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.”  (The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 120) For this month’s Insightful Conversation section, we are happy to bring a deeply inspiring conversation on a topic close

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Yoga and Cultural Misappropriation

All Life is Yoga, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: June 21, 2021 Venue: Online Renaissance journal team invited Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Director of the Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research (CYTER), and Professor of Yoga Therapy at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, for an interview on this topic, which is also the subject of his new e-book. Yogacharya Dr. Bhavanani shared

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