Sanatana Dharma

Sri Aurobindo and the True Fulfilment of Sanatana Dharma – Talk in Kolkata

BhāratShakti Talks, India-Our Mother, Upcoming Programmes

Date: 25 January, 2025 Time: 5:15 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, has been invited to speak on the topic – “Sri Aurobindo and the True Fulfilment of Sanatana Dharma”. This event is being organised by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, 15, Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata and will be held there on

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 12-week online course

Courses and Study Groups, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Start Date: June 1, 2024 End Date: August 17, 2024 Venue: Online Watch Glimpses from the Course A 12-week Online Course on Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma was organised by the BhāratShakti team starting from 1st June to 17th August, 2024. The course was facilitated by Narendra Murty, Research Associate and Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti.

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देवी अहिल्याबाई होल्कर, नारी शक्ति का एक प्रज्जवलित उदाहरण – सुमन कोचर

BhāratShakti Blog, Current Concerns, India-Our Mother

Date: August 13, 2024 Editor’s note: As the world witnesses the heart-wrenching attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, it is time to recall a powerful statement of Sri Aurobindo – “…the creative activities of the Hindu revival have made Indian religion a living and evolving, a secure, triumphant and self-assertive power.” (CWSA, 20: 63). To

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

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

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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Sri Aurobindo’s New Light on Sanatana Dharma

BhāratShakti Talks, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Date: December 14, 2022 Venue: Seminar on Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary, organised by 25th Kochi International Bookfest, Ernakulum, Kochi As part of the 25th edition of Kochi International Bookfest (10-19 December, 2022), a special seminar was organised on 14th December 2022 to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director,

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Book Launch – “Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo”

BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Author: Dr. Beloo Mehra Release date: April 25, 2022 On April 25, 2022, during the National Seminar on Sri Aurobindo’s Nationalism organised by Sri Aurobindo Society, a book titled “Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo” authored by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was released. The book is published by Auropublications, the publication

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Lecture and Virtual Exhibition – Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Exhibitions, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Event: Lecture and Virtual Exhibition – Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom Organised by: Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur Date: February 7, 2022 A full recording of this event is available HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra from Sri Aurobindo Society was invited by Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur, to deliver a lecture and present

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India’s Mission: A Spiritual Fusion of Religions

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Reddy Date: January 2, 2022 Full recording available HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), BhāratShakti and AuroYajna have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the third

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From Vedanta to Sri Aurobindo – A Youth’s Seeking for Truth

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Speaker: Dr. Shivaram Prasad Date: November 28, 2021 Full recording available HERE. “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 and cannot

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Ramayana: Cultural Mind of India

BhāratShakti Talks, India-Our Mother, Past Works

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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Dharma, Shāstra and Future Society

India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Yoga and Cultural Misappropriation

All Life is Yoga, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: June 21, 2021 Venue: Online Renaissance journal team invited Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Director of the Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research (CYTER), and Professor of Yoga Therapy at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, for an interview on this topic, which is also the subject of his new e-book. Yogacharya Dr. Bhavanani shared

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Of Indian Wisdom and Cultural Reawakening: A Conversation with Maria Wirth (3 parts)

India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: February 2, 2019 On February 2, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Maria Wirth about her new book, Thank you India: A German Woman’s Journey to the Wisdom of Yoga, and also about a few other related topics. We met at the Sri Aurobindo Society campus. The free-flowing conversation which lasted for more

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