Date: April 16, 2025 Part 3: Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer Continued from Part 2 Nataraja is an aspect of Shiva. He is the Cosmic Dancer. The word Nataraja literally means the Lord of Dance. In all the religious literatures of the world, we would usually find statements like “God created the universe” or such similar ideas.
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Date: April 8, 2025 Part 2: Why Study the Scriptures? Continued from Part 1 We begin our study of Bhagavad Gita by becoming aware of what we seek when we study any scripture such as the Gita, what may be the limitation of our instrument, and how to avoid the trapping of the limits of
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Author: Beloo Mehra Date published: April 3, 2025 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Remember to Reject: Learning on the Way is our fourth blog published on SAIEN platform. Life gives us many opportunities to become aware of those countless little, pesky flaws in
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Date: 25 March, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch Glimpses “Music, no doubt, goes nearest to the infinite and to the essence of things because it relies wholly on the ethereal vehicle, śabda…”~ Sri Aurobindo As part of the year-long exploration of ‘Spirit and Forms of Indian Art’ the BhāratShakti department organised a special evening programme
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Start Date: 6 March, 2025 End Date: 23 March, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry Lifelong learning and awakening a thirst to know and grow plays an important role in the overall progress of the individual in the context of Integral Development. The Mother has also emphasised how important it is to create or awaken
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Date: April 1, 2025 Part 2: Symbolism in Murti Puja Continued from Part 1 During his Parivrajaka days when Swami Vivekananda was travelling all over India on foot, he happened to be visiting the princely state of Alwar in Rajasthan. Raja Mangal Singh, the king of Alwar told him that he did not believe in
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Date: March 25, 2025 Part 1: Introduction “…the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 427 Srimad Bhagavad Gita is one of those rarest scriptures of the world in which lie the deepest and lasting solutions to most of our life’s day-to-day problems. This universal and timeless
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Date: March, 13, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry Watch the Recording As a part of the Exhibition on “Hampi – A Photographic Journey Tracing the Aesthetics of Perseverance and Valour”, BhāratShakti team organised a Lecture-discussion by Dr. Nanda Kishore M S, Head of the Department of Politics & International Studies and Chair of Sri
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 3Date: March 21, 2025 After last month’s special offering which included the release of the first issue of Renaissance Redux, and the launch of Children’s Corner, along with rich content related to appreciation of Indian art and a book review, we are happy to bring another special issue this month. The focus
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Date: March 18, 2025 Part 1 Introduction: The Language of Symbolism Those who are born outside the tradition of Hinduism generally feel completely at a loss to understand the spectacle that unfolds before their eyes whenever they are confronted with any outward signs of it. Lacking a single authority like Christianity, Islam or Buddhism, Hinduism
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Date: February, 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch Watch the recording HERE. On 23rd February, 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 Inner
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Date: February 22, 2025 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville As part of the week-long celebration of the Mother’s Birthday, the annual Auroville Festival of 2025 focused on the theme – Humility and its integration with Four Aspects of the Mother. On February 22, the specific theme of Humility and Power (Mahakali aspect of the Divine Mother)
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 2Date: February 21-24, 2025 We continue our exploration of the spirit and forms of Indian Art through a variety of offerings in the February 2025 issue. The issue focuses on a 2-part article by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Renaissance Editor, titled An Intuitive and Spiritual Eye to Appreciate Indian Art. Sri
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Date: February 24, 2024 The written word is perhaps the most powerful medium for ideas in the manifest world. Seers talk of the various states of Vāk (speech), of which Vaikharī is the grossest and most tangible form, and yet only accounts for the spoken word. While the spoken word used in its full capacity can
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Date: February 15, 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 session on Saturday, February 15, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Love and Relationships. The session opened
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Date: February 8, 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 session on Saturday, February 15, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Inner Progress and Education for Life.
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Date: 27 January, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata Listen to the recording HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited by Sri Aurobindo Society, West Bengal State Committee to speak on the topic – “Integral Education and a Teacher’s Dharma”. This event was held on January 27, 2025 at Sri Aurobindo
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Date: January 25, 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 January 25, 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,
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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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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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