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Residential Retreat – “Yoga in Everyday Life”

Dates: 27th to 29th December, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Sangama-Mekedatu, Kanakpura, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team conducted a 2-day Residential Retreat on the theme – “Yoga in Everyday Life” on 28th and 29th December, 2024 at Sri Aurobindo Dhama, located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river in Sangama-Mekedatu

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

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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Fulfilling Sri Aurobindo’s Dreams: A New India Arising – 3 – Preeti Mahurkar

Date: October 29, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 2 The Role of Integral Yoga in Conscious Evolution Integral Yoga, as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, plays a crucial role in this process of conscious evolution. It is a path that integrates all aspects of life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—towards the realization of the Divine. Through

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya – Teachers’ Workshop on Insights from Itihāsas, Purānas and Upanishads

Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka BhāratShakti team was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to curate and conduct an intensive workshop for about 70 teachers on the theme: Insights from Itihāsas,

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Purpose of Art: From Beauty to Bliss – September 2024, Renaissance

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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Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo

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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The Veda and the Vedic Spirit – Online Symposium

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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Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

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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Poster Exhibition on ‘Our Sweet Mother’

Start Date: 22 April, 2024 End Date: 15 May, 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 Sadhana Kendra had requested for some meaningful content for

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Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo – PG Course at Pondicherry University

Start date: November 23, 2023 End date: March 12, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University On Siddhi Divas, November 24, 2023 we announced that under our ongoing partnership with Pondicherry University (the official MoU was signed in August 2023) we had launched a new post-graduate course on ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’. Much hard work by Dr.

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From Rational to Suprarational: An Essential Evolutionary Movement for Collective Well-being

Date: February 11, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Uni(Di)versity, Aurovalley Ashram, Uttarakhand WATCH THE RECORDING HERE. On February 11, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at a National Seminar held in Uttarakhand. The 2-day (Feb 11-12, 2024) National Seminar on Synthesis of Science and Spirituality for the Highest Welfare of Society was jointly

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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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SAMVĀD: Featuring Nandini Sengupta and her book – ‘Rani Durgawati – The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen’

Date: 15 December 2023 Venue: Society House Watch the RECORDING. On 15th December, 2023, the Renaissance Journal along with Auropublications launched a new initiative titled SAMVĀD – A Series on Books, Authors and Booklovers. This initiative takes its guidance from the Mother who had encouraged the reading of carefully selected literature to cultivate our intelligence

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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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Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech: Its Timely and Timeless Significance

Date: October 29, 2023 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING At the invitation of a small group of seekers from the USA, on October 29, 2023, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti and Editor, Renaissance delivered an online talk on the topic ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech: Its Timely and Timeless Significance’. Dr. Mehra pointed out that Sri

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Invoking Shakti: Workshop on ‘The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture’

Dates: October 9 to 12, 2023 Venue: The Creative School, Bengaluru VIEW: PHOTO ALBUMS FROM THE WORKSHOP As part of the Renaissance journal’s special theme on Divine Shakti, the Renaissance team conceived, organized and conducted a 4-day intensive workshop on the theme – “Invoking Shakti: The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture.” This workshop was held

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Webinar on ‘Concentration and Progress’ by Renaissance Journal

Date: September 25, 2023 Watch the Recording As part of the Renaissance online journal’s September 2023 theme Concentration of Focus, a webinar was organised by the Renaissance team on 25th September, 2023. The webinar titled ‘Concentration and Progress’ presented diverse perspectives from 5 invited speakers. The session was moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance

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