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Arts-based Learning: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education 

Art and Spirituality, Creative School, Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti engaged in an interaction with Ms. Jayashree Ashok, Co-founder of Creative School, Bengaluru to explore the topic – “Art that Refines, Heals and Transforms: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education.”  The interactive session explored how in addition to facilitating the development of an aesthetic appreciation, a meaningfully and consciously

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Fulfilling Sri Aurobindo’s Dreams: A New India Arising – 5 – Preeti Mahurkar

BhāratShakti Blog, Current Concerns, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: November 19, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 4 The Legacy of Our Ancestors The practice of Integral Yoga, as outlined by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, provides the spiritual and practical framework to fulfill the dreams of our ancestors. They envisioned not just political freedom but the complete liberation of the human spirit—a new India where

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Workshop on Civilizational Public Policy at Auroville

Current Concerns, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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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Spiritual Nationalism and Its Significance for Today

BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Published Elsewhere

Dr. Beloo Mehra’s essay titled ‘Spiritual Nationalism and Its Significance for Today’ was recently published in the special commemorative volume of Ritam, a bilingual journal published by Uttarpara Sri Aurobindo Parishad. This special volume brings together articles from various scholars in Sri Aurobindo Studies, and presents a good overview of some of the essential facets

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Fulfilling Sri Aurobindo’s Dreams: A New India Arising – 4 – Preeti Mahurkar

BhāratShakti Blog, Current Concerns, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: November 12, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 3 Social Evolution: Crisis and Opportunity Integral Yoga and Integral Human Development teach us that the evolutionary process is not random but guided by a divine force. Our role is to align with this force, to repattern our social systems, and to evolve ourselves and society to a higher

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Beyond the Profit Motive – Narendra Murty

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        Date: October 22, 2024 The demise of Ratan Tata marks the end of an era. An era of visionary leadership that began 100 years back with Jamshedji Tata, that continued through JRD Tata, finally ended with Ratan Tata. Business for the Tatas was not just about making money and getting rich. It was

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Exhibition on Cultivating Soul-values – Courage, Faith and Concentration

Education for New India, Exhibitions, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Start date: September 24, 2024 End date: October 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka One of BhāratShakti ongoing works – Design for Dissemination – the team regularly researches, designs and curates exhibitions on a variety of topics. PHOTO GALLERY As part of its Invoking Shakti children’s workshop series that BhāratShakti team has been

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

Creative School, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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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Fulfilling Sri Aurobindo’s Dreams: A New India Arising – 2 – Preeti Mahurkar

BhāratShakti Blog, Current Concerns, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: October 10, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 1 India’s Role as a Spiritual Leader – Guiding the World Toward Unity and Peace To fulfill Sri Aurobindo’s dreams, India must embrace its role as a spiritual leader on the global stage. This leadership is not about asserting dominance but about offering a path to unity and

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Book launch – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys by Beloo Mehra

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Fulfilling Sri Aurobindo’s Dreams: A New India Arising – 1 – Preeti Mahurkar

BhāratShakti Blog, Current Concerns, Past Works, Preeti Mahurkar, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: September 21, 2024 Editor’s note: We are happy to feature a series of blogs by Preeti Mahurkar on the theme of “A New India Arising” inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Five Dreams’. Preeti Mahurkar is a highly accomplished life coach, certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner, emotional intelligence trainer, and career counselor with over 25 years

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Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: September 13, 2024 Venue: Tagore Government Arts and Science College Watch the RECORDING On September 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk on the topic – Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo. This program was organized by the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College,

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving – A Session with College Students

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: September 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, September 5, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited as a Guest Lecturer by the Jindal Global Business School, a specialized institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He gave a presentation on the topic “The 6 Thinking

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We, the Perpetually Outraged – Beloo Mehra

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Date: August 26, 2024 People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is

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Poster Exhibition – Sri Aurobindo is as Vast as the Universe

Exhibitions, India-Our Mother, Themes

Start Date: 5 August, 2024 End Date:25 August, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat A poster exhibition curated by the BhāratShakti team is currently on display at the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat. Dr. Rajeshwari Singh, President of the Kendra had invited us to curate a special exhibition for

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Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

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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Was India Not a Nation Before 1947? – Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Blog, BhāratShakti Writings, Current Concerns, India-Our Mother, Narendra Murty, Past Works

Date: July 7, 2024 Of late some imbecile politicians no doubt driven by a diabolic agenda, have been articulating a gem of an idiocy that India was not a nation before 1947. That we owe our nationhood to the British rule because India was never a nation but merely a conglomeration of kingdoms. Going by

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Devi Ahilyabai Holkar and Bhāratiya Resurgence

Conferences and Seminars, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: June 22, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the recordings HERE and HERE. “In the political field [India] never ceased to throw up great rulers, statesmen, soldiers, administrators….in the political field it never ceased to throw up great rulers, statesmen, soldiers, administrators. Its political genius was not in the decadence sufficient, not coherent enough or swift in vision

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Yuva Shakti – Cultivating Virtues for Self-growth

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: May 30, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Our call is to young India. 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

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Seven Steps to Integral Leadership – Talk by Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: April 24, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On April 24, 2024, Mr Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited as a Guest Lecturer by Jindal Global Business School, a specialised institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Mr. Murty gave a presentation on “Seven Steps to Integral Leadership” to the first-year students pursuing

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