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

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Date: November 24, 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 with a different

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The Power that is Mahalaksmi – Interactive Session for Uditam

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works

Date: November 22, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan, Pondicherry 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, November 22, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Power that is Mahalakshmi.

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Films that Educate – 2: Musings on Bahubali – Beloo Mehra

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Date: November 19, 2025 This writeup maybe a decade late, but the thoughts are still relevant, I think. Because the film which I am going to analyse briefly here can be said to usher in a new trend in multilingual Indian cinema – that of telling pan-Indian timeless stories in a grand, epic style. A

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Vedic Yajña: “A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme” – Talk by Beloo Mehra

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Watch the recording HERE. Date: November 15, 2025 Venue: Online On November 15, 2025, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the weekly YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based

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Revisiting Gender Equality through the Indian Spiritual Vision – A Course for Karmayogi Bharat

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Date: November 13, 2025 Venue: Online – iGOT Karmayogi Earlier this year, an MoU was signed between Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS) and Karmayogi Bharat, a Government of India initiative under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). Under this MoU, Karmayogi Bharat and SAS decided to work together in actively building capacity of government officials in India

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Making Sense of Hinduism – Talk by Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Talks, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: November 8, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the recording HERE. On 8th November, 2025, Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the weekly YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based

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Symbolism of the Human Chariot in the Kathopanishad

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Date: October 12, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch Watch the recording HERE. On October 12, 2025, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk at the Sunday Satsang held in the Meditation Hall of the Delhi Branch of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The subject of the talk was “The Symbolism of

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The Next Stage in Human Progress – October 2025, Renaissance

BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Renaissance Journal

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 10Date: October 21, 2025 In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo writes that “to hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.” This is our guiding light for the latest issue of Renaissance, our monthly online journal released on October 21, 2025. Sri

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Recovering the Aryan Spirit: Some Reflections on the Mother’s Symbol

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Date: October 11, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata Watch the recording HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata to deliver a talk on October 11, 2025. Inaugurated on 15 August, 1941 at the same location, Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir was the first public institute of its kind outside Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry,

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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

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Past Works, Workshops

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

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works

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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