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Indian Sacred Architecture – January 2025, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 1Date: January 21, 2025 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra “…everyone who has at all the Indian spirit and feeling, can at least give some account of the main, the central things which constitute for him the appeal of Indian painting, sculpture and architecture.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20,

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Poster Exhibition – The Greatness of Indian Culture

Start Date: December 27, 2024 End Date: December 31, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka As part of their day-long workshop titled ‘Our Culture, Our Pride’, especially curated and conducted for students at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka, BhāratShakti team researched and curated a 20-poster exhibition on the theme – ‘The Greatness of Indian

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Sri Aurobindo and the True Fulfilment of Sanatana Dharma – Talk in Kolkata

Date: 25 January, 2025 Time: 5:15 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, has been invited to speak on the topic – “Sri Aurobindo and the True Fulfilment of Sanatana Dharma”. This event is being organised by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, 15, Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata and will be held there on

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Our Culture, Our Pride – Day-long Workshop for Gurukulam Students

Date: December 27, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Sangama, Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a day-long workshop for about 70 students (ages 12-16) on the theme – “Our Culture, Our Pride” on 27th December, 2024 at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka. Om Shanti Dhama is a Registered Charitable

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A Conversation on Exploring Human Psychology through NāṭyaŚāstra

Date: December 4, 2024 Venue: Online The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as a part of life and made it subservient to life. ~ The Mother, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 108 As part of our ongoing year-long exploration of the topic – “The Spirit and Forms of Art in

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Workshop on Civilizational Public Policy at Auroville

Dates: November 15-17, 2024 Venue: Bharat Nivas, Auroville [India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in

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The Sacred Origins of Art – October 2024, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 10Date: October 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra India had conceived the whole philosophy of her art, early on in the Vedic period itself, emphasises E.B. Havell in Ideals of Indian Art. The highest vision of the Vedic seers, the vision of the Infinite that is revealed and yet hidden in all

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Invoking Shakti: 4-day Workshop on ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith And Concentration’

Start date: September 24, 2024 End Date: September 27, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 4-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 3-18) on the theme – ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’ at Creative School near Bengaluru. This workshop was a part of

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya – Teachers’ Workshop on Insights from Itihāsas, Purānas and Upanishads

Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, 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 70 teachers on the theme: Insights from Itihāsas,

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Book launch – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys by Beloo Mehra

Date: September 23, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra’s new book titled Antaryatra: Soul Journeys (2024, published by Sri Aurobindo’s Action with Brown Critique Books) was officially launched on September 23, 2024. The book is primarily written keeping the youth of India in mind. So it was perfect that the book

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Purpose of Art: From Beauty to Bliss – September 2024, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision of integral human development, cultivating a sense of beauty occupies an important place. The Mother said that it is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when we are taught to shun

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 12-week online course

Start Date: June 1, 2024 End Date: August 17, 2024 Venue: Online Watch Glimpses from the Course A 12-week Online Course on Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma was organised by the BhāratShakti team starting from 1st June to 17th August, 2024. The course was facilitated by Narendra Murty, Research Associate and Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti.

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The Veda and the Vedic Spirit – Online Symposium

Date: August 18, 2024 WATCH the recordings of the 2.5-hour-long symposium:PART 1, PART 2,   PART 3 “The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is its [Indian Renaissance’s] first, most important work…”(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 20: 15) As part of our ongoing activities of the study group on

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Sri Aurobindo, the Avatar – August 2024, Renaissance

Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 8Date: August 15, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra  In August 2022, for the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, we did a special issue of Renaissance on the theme – ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Eternal Presence‘. And ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Rishi‘ was the theme for the August 2023 issue. As the

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देवी अहिल्याबाई होल्कर, नारी शक्ति का एक प्रज्जवलित उदाहरण – सुमन कोचर

Date: August 13, 2024 Editor’s note: As the world witnesses the heart-wrenching attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, it is time to recall a powerful statement of Sri Aurobindo – “…the creative activities of the Hindu revival have made Indian religion a living and evolving, a secure, triumphant and self-assertive power.” (CWSA, 20: 63). To

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Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

Renaissance E-Book 3 Released: July 2024 “Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.”~ The Mother, CWM, 14:98 Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. For the 12 issues of Renaissance during 2021-2022, as we explored the 12 qualities of the Mother’s

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