Date: July 1, 2025 Part 8: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 1 Continued from Part 7 The fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge. It opens with Sri Krishna telling Arjuna that it was He who had revealed this highest secret, this imperishable Yoga, to the Sun-God
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Date: June 17, 2025 Part 7: On Disinterested Duty and Divine Obligation to Act Continued from Part 6 In continuation of what was discussed in the previous part, it is important to reflect a little on why Sri Aurobindo cautions that it is a mistake to interpret the Gita from the standpoint of today’s mentality. Such
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Date: June 3, 2025 Part 6: Karmayoga – The Yoga of Works Continued from Part 5 Arjuna seems perplexed after listening to the deep metaphysical truths given by Sri Krishna regarding the permanence of the Atman, the way of being of the yogin stationed in the true self-knowledge, and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. Seeking
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Date: May 20, 2025 Part 5: Sānkhya Yoga – 2 Continued from Part 4 In the next several verses is expounded Gita’s teaching of the Buddhi-yoga, the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. This teaching builds upon two foundations: a) the Vedantic Sānkhya of the Upanishads and b) Yoga, a principally subjective practice and inner change which
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Date: May 6, 2025 Part 4: Sānkhya Yoga – I Continued from Part 3 Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita begins with Sri Krishna giving a jolt to Arjuna when he asks – How and from where has this stain and darkness of the soul entered into you in the hour of difficulty and peril? In order
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Date: April 22, 2025 Part 3: Arjuna Viṣhāda Yoga – The Yoga of Arjuna’s Dejection Continued from Part 2 On the battlefield of Kurukshetra when Arjuna, the representative man of his age, is overcome with dejection and sorrow at the most critical moment of his life, he raises a fundamental question regarding human life and
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Date: April 17, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai Watch the Recording HERE Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a foremost scholar of English literature, highly acclaimed and well-awarded for his invaluable academic contributions. But as aspiring children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo what we value and admire most about him is his deep and
Date: April 19, 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, April 19, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Human Relationships in Itihāsas. The session
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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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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: 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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Date: July 13, 2024 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING On July 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra 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 on the idea –
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Date: June 21, 2024 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING On June 21, 2024, the 10th International Day of Yoga, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society to deliver an online talk as part of the AuroYajna’s celebration of the IDY 2024. The larger theme for IDY celebration was Yoga and
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Start Date: January 7, 2024 Upcoming Date: December 31, 2024 End Date: To be determined Venue: Zoom BhāratShakti team is happy to represent Sri Aurobindo Society as a collaborator in this webinar series being organised by Aurochit, a small group of aspirants based in the US. Start the year 2024 by spending some time reflecting on the
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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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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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Date: July 21, 2021 Venue: Online We invited Nithin Sridhar, author of several books on Hinduism and a commentator on various social-cultural-political issues of our times. ‘Īśopaniṣad: An English Commentary’ is his most recent book. Referring to the Upanishads as at once scripture, philosophy and seer-poetry, Sri Aurobindo once remarked that the Upanishads are the supreme work
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