Date: June 2, 2025 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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Date: June 3, 2025 Part 6: Karmayoga – The Yoga of Works Continued from Part 5 Arjuna seems perplexed after listening to the deep metaphysical truths given by Sri Krishna regarding the permanence of the Atman, the way of being of the yogin stationed in the true self-knowledge, and the Yoga of the Intelligent Will. Seeking
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Date: May 31, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion on Saturday, May 31, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Light on Human Relationships. After some general
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Start Date: April 26, 2025 End Date: May 24, 2025 Venue: Online Love and relationships are at the root of all human life as lived in our familial and societal contexts. But ordinarily, most people do not take the trouble to examine and understand the nature of these two things. Consequently, we go through life
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Start date: May 20, 2025 End date: May 21, 2025 Venue: DAV Public School, Kaggalipura, Bengaluru At the invitation of the School Governing Council and Administration of Dayanand Arya Vidya School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team of Sri Aurobindo Society designed and conducted a 2-day workshop for their teachers during their annual professional development week in
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 5Date: May 21, 2025 The attempt to express in form and limit something of that which is formless and illimitable is the attempt of Indian art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 8, p. 64 Art historian Stella Kramrisch states that the art of painting has played an important role in the
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Start Date: July 5, 2025 End Date: August 9, 2025 Venue: Online Modern life is full of problems, desires, expectations, deadlines and frustrations. When we are overwhelmed by all these, we suffer from stress. To combat stress, the remedies that are usually offered include: Medication, Exercise, Visualization, Meditation, Breathing techniques, Muscle relaxation, Laughing Clubs, Healthy
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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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Date: 8 May, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recordings Sri Aurobindo once wrote about Rabindranath Tagore: “Tagore has been a wayfarer towards the same goal as ours in his own way — that is the main thing, the exact stage of advance and putting of the steps are minor matters. His exact position as a
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Date: June 23, 2025 Time: 5:00 PM Venue: Online BhāratShakti department is happy to host a special online talk on Savitri, the mantric epic poem of Sri Aurobindo. About Savitri, the Mother once said that it is a “complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral
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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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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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Date: April 17, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai Watch the Recording HERE Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar was a foremost scholar of English literature, highly acclaimed and well-awarded for his invaluable academic contributions. But as aspiring children of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo what we value and admire most about him is his deep and
Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 4Date: April 21, 2025 E.B. Havell, the famous British art historian, said that a golden thread of Vedic thought bound together all varied strands of Indian art—Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Sikh, and even Indo-Saracenic—in spite of their outer, theological, ritualistic and dogmatic differences. Also, because art is primarily subjective, it is
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Date: April 15, 2025 Venue: Palais de Mahe, Pondicherry Watch the recording HERE. As part of BhāratShakti’s Samvād series of events in which selected books are discussed in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s vision, the latest book to be taken up was — Antaryatra: Soul Journeys, written by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. This took
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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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Author: Beloo Mehra Date published: April 3, 2025 As a Collaborating Center of SAIEN (Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Network), BhāratShakti regularly contributes to the SAIEN Blog. Remember to Reject: Learning on the Way is our fourth blog published on SAIEN platform. Life gives us many opportunities to become aware of those countless little, pesky flaws in
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Start Date: 6 March, 2025 End Date: 23 March, 2025 Venue: Ashram Exhibition House, Pondicherry Lifelong learning and awakening a thirst to know and grow plays an important role in the overall progress of the individual in the context of Integral Development. The Mother has also emphasised how important it is to create or awaken
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Date: 22 March 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential 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, March 22, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Divine Spark Within. After brief
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VI, Issue 3Date: March 21, 2025 After last month’s special offering which included the release of the first issue of Renaissance Redux, and the launch of Children’s Corner, along with rich content related to appreciation of Indian art and a book review, we are happy to bring another special issue this month. The focus
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