Date: October 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the recordings – PART 1 PART 2 It is victory day; let it be a true victory of the Spirit over ignorance and falsehood. The Mother’s message on Durga Puja, 1954 Durga Puja is celebrated in Sri Aurobindo Ashram as victory day, a victory of the truth over
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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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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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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision of integral human development, cultivating a sense of beauty occupies an important place. The Mother said that it is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when we are taught to shun
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Date: September 7, 2024 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the last 4-day 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, September 7, 2024. For her session, Dr. Mehra chose the topic – From Love Human to Love Divine.
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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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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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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 8Date: August 15, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In August 2022, for the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, we did a special issue of Renaissance on the theme – ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Eternal Presence‘. And ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Rishi‘ was the theme for the August 2023 issue. As the
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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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Author: Beloo MehraDate published: July 18, 2024 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Let Go and Call Her is our first blog published on SAIEN platform. Let Go and Call Her When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you
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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: July 15, 2024 The integral perspective on conflict resolution calls for individual and collective praxis towards building a peaceful and harmonious society. This call is grounded in an evolutionary perspective, which holds that Nature is evolving, often towards a more positive, prosperous, and peaceful direction though the process might be tardy and conflictual due
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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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Date: June 13, 2024 Venue: Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry On June 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited as a panelist for the National Conference on “Yoga for Women Empowerment” organized by School of Yoga Therapy, Institute of Salutogenesis & Complementary Medicine of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth in collaboration with Morarji Desai National Institute
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 4 Date: April 21, 2024 On April 21, we released our second issue exploring the theme – Divine in Nature. We hope our readers enjoyed going through the previous issue which dealt more with the philosophical basis for the topic. In this issue we turn our attention toward how
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Date: March 29, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them; it is a subtle and fragrant language.” ~ The Mother Photo Gallery of the Event On March 29, 2024, the BhāratShakti and Renaissance Journal team organised a special programme as part of their two-month-long exploration
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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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Date: February 26, 2024 Venue: Unity Pavillion, Auroville Watch the Recording with relevant images from the presentation. As part of the Shakti Kumbh 2024, a 9-day event held at Unity Pavilion, Auroville from February 21-29, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on February 26 on the topic – Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol. The
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This series of video lectures by Dr. Beloo Mehra integrates learnings from Indian cultural tradition and Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings on the topic of right attitude towards money. These videos were recorded for PAAVAN app as part of its collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Society.
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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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