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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Date: March 21, 2022 Venue: Online It is often said that there are three main ways to know India. First, and the best way, is to aspire to realise the truth behind India’s profound and life-affirming spiritual thought. Second is to identify with the deeper truths behind India’s countless stories, particularly the stories told in itihāsa-s (Ramayana
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Start Date: APRIL 9, 2022 End Date: JUNE 18, 2022 Location: Online This study group provided the participants an opportunity to experience the Living Force and Power of the Words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother through a focused programme of self-study and a weekly shared reflection session. TOPIC: THE WAY OF DEVOTION Primary readings
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Speaker: Ms. Rainy Krishnan
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Date: February 21, 2022 Venue: Online Over the long march of time and despite all the ebbs and flows in India’s cultural landscape, one remarkable facet of the Indian literary mind – a mind that has immersed itself in the literature that expresses the eternal spirit of India – can never be missed. It keeps
Speaker: Aravindan Neelakandan Date: February 6, 2022 Full recording available HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), BhāratShakti and AuroYajna have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the fourth lecture
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Date: January 21, 2022 “All great artistic work proceeds from an act of intuition, not really an intellectual idea or a splendid imagination,—these are only mental translations,—but a direct intuition of some truth of life or being, some significant form of that truth, some development of it in the mind of man.”(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20,
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Speaker: Dr. Sharanya Reddy
Sciences and Traditional Knowledge of Ancient India Read More »
Speaker: Dr. Ananda Reddy Date: January 2, 2022 Full recording available HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), BhāratShakti and AuroYajna have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the third
India’s Mission: A Spiritual Fusion of Religions Read More »
Speaker: Mr. Srinivas Mulugu
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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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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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Speaker: Ms. Rekha Rao Date: October 31, 2021 Recording available HERE. This event was a part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022). It marked the beginning of a series of Special Lectures which will be organised under the Theme: India – Our
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On October 15, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research to share a 10-minute video-snippet on the significance of Ramayana in the light of Sri Aurobindo. यावत्स्थास्यन्ति गिरयः सरितश्च महीतले |तावद्रामायणकथा लोकेषु प्रचरिष्यति || “As long as the mountains and rivers flourish on the surface of the earth, so
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Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Balakrishna
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As a follow-up to the session held on August 31, 2021 on “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education”, another session was organised on September 7, 2021 by the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Auro University, Surat in which Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti engaged in
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On August 31, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society was invited by Auro University and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Surat, to speak on the topic – “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education.” This webinar was organised as part of the University’s Lecture and Workshop Series, Part II of the
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Watch the recording of the talk HERE. On August 15th, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti delivered a special lecture titled “Revisiting Nation, Nationalism and Culture in the Light of Sri Aurobindo” at an event organised by Sri Aurobindo Study Centre, Faculty of Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in association with the
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On August 15th, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti delivered a lecture titled “Sri Aurobindo – The Revolutionary Nationalist” as the opening talk for the year-long series “Eternity’s Delegate” being organised by Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry. This event is is part of SACAR’s year-long celebrations of 150th Birth Anniversary Year of
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