Sanatana Dharma

Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 8 – Beloo Mehra

Date: July 1, 2025 Part 8: ज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोगः – The Yoga of Knowledge – 1 Continued from Part 7 The fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on Jñāna Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge. It opens with Sri Krishna telling Arjuna that it was He who had revealed this highest secret, this imperishable Yoga, to the Sun-God

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 6 – Narendra Murty

Date: June 22, 2025 Part 6: Understanding Hindu Rituals – Pradakshina Continued from Part 5 Pradakshina is a term used for the ritual of walking clockwise around a shrine, an image or a sacred object. This circumambulation ritual is widely practiced in in Hinduism and Buddhism. The essential idea is the communion with the divine principle.

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 5 – Narendra Murty

Date: June 1, 2025 Part 5: Understanding Hindu Rituals Continued from Part 4 Rituals are physical acts that establish our relationship with the Divine. The act of a ritual establishes rules and patterns of behaviour that we adopt towards the Divine. There is a philosophy, meaning and significance behind every ritual. Rituals become beautiful and meaningful

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 5 – Beloo Mehra

Date: May 20, 2025 Part 5: Sānkhya Yoga – 2 Continued from Part 4 In the next several verses is expounded Gita’s teaching of the Buddhi-yoga, the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. This teaching builds upon two foundations: a) the Vedantic Sānkhya of the Upanishads and b) Yoga, a principally subjective practice and inner change which

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 4 – Narendra Murty

Date: May 12, 2025 Part 4: Vishnu, the Lord of the Universe Continued from Part 3 The word Vishnu is derived from the Sanskrit root “vish” which means “to pervade.” So, Vishnu is “the one who pervades” or “the all-pervasive”. Vishnu is the inside-out of the whole creation. Vishnu symbolises Brahman, the Ultimate Source of all that

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 4 – Beloo Mehra

Date: May 6, 2025 Part 4: Sānkhya Yoga – I Continued from Part 3 Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita begins with Sri Krishna giving a jolt to Arjuna when he asks – How and from where has this stain and darkness of the soul entered into you in the hour of difficulty and peril? In order

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 3 – Beloo Mehra

Date: April 22, 2025 Part 3: Arjuna Viṣhāda Yoga – The Yoga of Arjuna’s Dejection Continued from Part 2 On the battlefield of Kurukshetra when Arjuna, the representative man of his age, is overcome with dejection and sorrow at the most critical moment of his life, he raises a fundamental question regarding human life and

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 3 – Narendra Murty

Date: April 16, 2025 Part 3: Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer Continued from Part 2 Nataraja is an aspect of Shiva. He is the Cosmic Dancer. The word Nataraja literally means the Lord of Dance. In all the religious literatures of the world, we would usually find statements like “God created the universe” or such similar ideas.

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 2 – Beloo Mehra

Date: April 8, 2025 Part 2: Why Study the Scriptures? Continued from Part 1 We begin our study of Bhagavad Gita by becoming aware of what we seek when we study any scripture such as the Gita, what may be the limitation of our instrument, and how to avoid the trapping of the limits of

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 2 – Narendra Murty

Date: April 1, 2025 Part 2: Symbolism in Murti Puja Continued from Part 1 During his Parivrajaka days when Swami Vivekananda was travelling all over India on foot, he happened to be visiting the princely state of Alwar in Rajasthan. Raja Mangal Singh, the king of Alwar told him that he did not believe in

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Bhagavad Gita: A Study in the Light of Sri Aurobindo – 1 – Beloo Mehra

Date: March 25, 2025 Part 1: Introduction   “…the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.”   ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 427 Srimad Bhagavad Gita is one of those rarest scriptures of the world in which lie the deepest and lasting solutions to most of our life’s day-to-day problems. This universal and timeless

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 1 – Narendra Murty  

Date: March 18, 2025 Part 1 Introduction: The Language of Symbolism Those who are born outside the tradition of Hinduism generally feel completely at a loss to understand the spectacle that unfolds before their eyes whenever they are confronted with any outward signs of it. Lacking a single authority like Christianity, Islam or Buddhism, Hinduism

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Shiva, The Lord of Tapas – Online Satsang in Hindi

Date: 10 March, 2025 Venue: Online A webinar in Hindi was organised by BhāratShakti on the theme of Shiva, The Lord of Tapas on March 10, 2025 to celebrate the holy occasion of Mahashivaratri. The programme involved a talk by Dr. Charan Singh Kedarkhandi and musical offering by Ms. Biswajita Mohapatra. About 25 people joined

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Sri Aurobindo and True Fulfilment of Sanatana Dharma

Date: January 25, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir Watch the Recording HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir to deliver a talk on January 25, 2025. Inaugurated on 15 August, 1941 at the same location, Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir was the first public institute of its kind outside Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, entirely

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Symbolism in Sanatana Dharma – 12-week online course

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

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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