Integral Education

Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

Renaissance E-Book 3 Author: Sheeba Naaz 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

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Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother – An Interactive Session with Educational Leaders

Date: 24 July 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society An Interactive Session with a group of educational leaders visiting from CN Vidyavihar Group of Institutions, Ahmedabad was organised by the BhāratShakti team on 24th July, at Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. The session was conceived of as a preliminary orientation on the Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo

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Yuva Shakti – Cultivating Virtues for Self-growth

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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Makings of a Truly Learner-centric Education: Sri Aurobindo and Maria Montessori

Date: May 3, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research, Pondicherry As part of its offerings on the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry launched a project titled Sri Aurobindo: A Visionary Among World Thinkers. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, this project has

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Seven Steps to Integral Leadership – Talk by Narendra Murty

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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Rethinking Communications beyond Polarities – Talk by Beloo Mehra at International Conference

Date: April 8, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University Watch the Recording. On April 8, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at the Inauguration ceremony of an International Conference on ‘Future Communications: Rethinking Societies, Cultures and Governance’ organized by the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communications, School of Media and Communications, Pondicherry

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Humour and Spirituality – An Interactive Session at Tagore College

Date: March 6, 2024 The Renaissance journal team curated and conducted an interactive session with the college students and faculty of Tagore Govt. Arts and Science College, Pondicherry on the theme of Humour and Spirituality — Exploring how humour has been used as a method to impart spiritual wisdom. The initial planning was done by

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Indian Culture and Integral Education – An Interaction with Flame University Students

Date: February 26, 2024 A group of 10 students and 1 faculty member from Flame University, Pune visited Sri Aurobindo Society in the last week of February for a series of educational events and interactions. This visit was part of their ongoing research project on Integral Education. On behalf of Sri Aurobindo Society, SAFIER (Sri

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Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light

Date: January 11, 2024 As part of the Annual Youth Camp 2024 organised by AuroYouth, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to conduct an interactive session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11 focused on the topic ‘Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light’. Love and relationships are the root of all human

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Light, Endless Light: An Interactive Session with Children

Date: November 2, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm PHOTO GALLERY A group of 70 students along with 10 teachers from The Creative School, Karnataka, who were on a field visit to explore some places in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry visited Sri Aurobindo Society on November 2, 2023. The BhāratShakti

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Purpose Gives Focus; Concentration Gives the Ability

Date: September 21, 2023 In Conversation with Chirasree Mitra Narendra: What is the importance of Concentration and Focus for our effective functioning in the world? Chirasree: In today’s fast-paced world and considering the multiple demands that life makes from each of us, we are all under pressure to deliver. Regardless of our age or gender, we all

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Signing of MoU between Sri Aurobindo Society and Pondicherry University

Date: August 29, 2023 Venue: Pondicherry University On August 29, 2023, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Sri Aurobindo Society and Pondicherry University. The special ceremony, hosted by Pondicherry University, was chaired by Vice-Chancellor Prof. Gurmeet Singh. Shri Pradeep Narang, Chairman of Sri Aurobindo Society and Prof. Rajneesh Bhutani, Registrar, Pondicherry University, signed the

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Indian Literary Tradition in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

Renaissance E-book 2 Author: Dr. Beloo Mehra Released: August 2023 This book explores the progression of Indian literary tradition over thousands of years, keeping in perspective the innate focus of Indian culture and its natural development over time. Sri Aurobindo’s wide look at the vast canvas and simultaneously an in-depth view of the evolution of Indian

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Preparing for Conscious Sleep – An Experiential Session

Date: August 4, 2023 As part of the June-July 2023 issue of Renaissance (Click here for Renaissance) focusing on the theme of “Food, Sleep and Yoga”, a special experiential online session titled ‘’Preparing for Conscious Sleep’’ was organised by the Renaissance team. The aim of this session was to translate some of the learning from

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Who is an Aryan and Building Aryan Character: An interactive session with university students

Date: June 1, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society A group of 22 undergraduate and postgraduate students along with two organisers from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar who were recently in Pondicherry for a study camp visited Sri Aurobindo Society on June 1, 2023 for an interactive session with Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. The 1.5

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Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values

Renaissance E-book 1 Author: Beloo Mehra Released: April 2023 “Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values” is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. It weaves together selected insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on twelve qualities from the Mother’s symbol and presents them in the context of original write-ups

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Teacher Education for a New Age: NEP 2020 and an Integral Approach

Date: January 21, 2023 Venue: Auro University, Surat Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti and Editor, Renaissance, was invited as an expert speaker to participate in a 2-day National Seminar organised by Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center at Auro University, Surat. The seminar’s theme was – NEP 2020: The Pathway through Integral Education. About 200 educators

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Educating the Vital – Art Education for Inner Harmony

Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the decline of civilisation and social decay, a growing vulgarity seems to have taken possession of human life, individual as well as collective, particularly in what concerns aesthetic life and the life of the senses. A

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Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Social Philosophy

Date: September 8, 2022 Venue: Savitri Bhavan, Auroville Watch the recording of the talk HERE. As part of its celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Auroville Foundation and Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised a 5-day programme called ‘Integral Yoga Week’ which aimed to highlight a few essential insights from some of

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