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Utsaha – Celebrating the Joyful and Contemplative Spirit of Navaratri

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Date: September 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society On September 23, 2025, the BhāratShakti team organised a workshop titled UTSAHA: Celebrating the Joyful and Contemplative Spirit of Navaratri  for the students of Sri Aurobindo Centenary School, Tadipatri, Anantapur Dist, Andhra Pradesh. This 2-hour programme was organised at Sri Aurobindo Society. Participants included 50 students from Class

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya: Teacher Workshop on ‘Insights from Integral Yoga and Indian Spiritual Tradition on Love and Relationships’

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Start date: September 19, 2025 End date: September 20, 2025 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, Karnataka BhāratShakti team was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to curate and conduct an intensive workshop for about 75 teachers and administrators on the theme: ‘Insights from

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India’s Message: The Spiritual Solution – September 2025, Renaissance

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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2025 In Renaissance journal, we continue with our exploration of The New Ideal that Sri Aurobindo has given us, with a special focus on highlighting some perspectives relevant to the evolutionary march of our collective lives as societies and cultures. This new ideal of integral spirituality is

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Three Day Workshop for Students – Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana

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Start Date: 15 September 2025 End Date: 17 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Freedom Land, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 3-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 10-18) on the theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and

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Invoking Shakti: Workshop on Art Appreciation for Children

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Date: 12 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Bileshivale, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to conduct a day-long workshop for about 90 students (ages 3-9) on the topic of Art Appreciation at Creative School in Bileshivale area, Bengaluru. The specific topic was taken up under a larger theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’ which made

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Four Powers of the Mother – A Residential Workshop-Retreat

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Dates: November 28-30, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Sangama-Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team will be conducting a two-day immersive workshop-retreat on the topic – Four Powers of the Mother. The residential programme will be hosted by Sri Aurobindo Dhama located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river in Sangama-Mekedatu

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 13 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: September 9, 2025 Part 13: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 3 Continued from Part 12 Karmayoga and Equality The Gita attaches immense importance in its elements of Karmayoga to equality; “it is the nodus of the free spirit’s free relations with the world,” says Sri Aurobindo. For one who is always withdrawn

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Work as a Means for Inner Progress – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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Date: August 30, 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, August 30, 2025. The focus of this session was on understanding ‘Work as a Means for Inner Progress’. Dr. Mehra

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 12 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: August 26, 2025 Part 12: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action – 2 Continued from Part 11 We continue our brief study of the signs of a Divine Worker. A divine worker is free from the desire of the fruits of action and is conscious of working only as an instrument of the Divine

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Celebrating Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna: An Online Satsang

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Date: August 16, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the recordings HERE and HERE. To celebrate Sri Aurobindo’s birthday and Sri Krishna Janmashtami, BhāratShakti organised an online satsang on Saturday, August 16, 2025. The programme included a few short talks (in English and Hindi) highlighting a few aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s and Sri Krishna’s Divine Personalities and

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Talk by Beloo Mehra on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

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Date: August 13, 2025 Venue: IGNCA, Regional Centre Puducherry, Art and Craft Village, Puducherry The Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi has designated the 14th of August as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day to honor the memory of those who endured immense suffering and made profound sacrifices during the partition of India in 1947. In

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Renaissance Redux – Release of Third Issue of BhāratShakti’s Quarterly Publication

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Date: August 15, 2025 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features selections from the vast archives of the online journal Renaissance which has been published since 2019 and presents them in a thematic manner. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 11 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: August 12, 2025 Part 11: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action -1 Continued from Part 10 Chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita opens with Arjuna’s question on how to reconcile Karmayoga and the renunciation of works. He wants Sri Krishna to tell him with a clear decisiveness which of these is the better way.

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What is Shakti – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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Date: August 1, 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 Friday, August 1, 2025. All the participants were women, and many of them being teachers working at Auro Schools; so for

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 8 – Narendra Murty

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Date: August 4, 2025 Part 8: About Mythology Continued from Part 7 The art of symbolism has been used extensively in the area of mythology in Sanatana Dharma.  Plato described myths as fictional stories that illustrated Truth. In other words, myths are an expression of some deeper truths through the medium of stories and vivid imagery.

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Launch of ‘The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle’

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Date: August 1, 2025 Venue: Online In the special month of August, BhāratShakti department under the guidance of Vijaybhai launched a new BI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION – The Best of Sri Aurobindo Circle. The first issue of this e-publication was circulated with a special note from Vijaybhai. He wrote: Sri Aurobindo Circle was started with the Mother’s blessings from Bombay

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 10 – Beloo Mehra

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Date: July 29, 2025 Part 10: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 3 Continued from Part 9 In the next few verses in the chapter on Yoga of Knowledge, Sri Krishna elaborates on the idea of sacrifice. He speaks of the psychological disciplines by which seekers of higher self-possession and self-knowledge practice and develop self-control

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Traveling through Bhārat – 3 – Lakshmijyothi C.

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Date: July 22, 2025 Part 3: Trichy – The Glorious Splendour of the Divine Tiruchirappalli, more commonly known as Trichy, is the quintessence of the glory of the externalisation of Indian spiritual culture that evolved to a zenith in the Tamilakam region and still remains unique to itself. The bustling large town has retained the

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Sri Aurobindo as a Teacher – An Interactive Session for Uditam

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works

Date: July 19, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan Listen to the Recording 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, July 19, 2025. Most of the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo

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