Sri Aurobindo

Indian Approach to Psychology: An Educator’s Experience and Insights

Date: December 21, 2021 Venue: Online For this month’s insightful conversation, we focus on an educator’s experience of working with college students on Indian approach to psychology, or what she calls as Psychology of the Self. Dr. Aditi Kaul works at Auro University, Surat, which is inspired by the ideals and teachings of Sri Aurobindo

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

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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Krishna’s Butter: Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth

Date: November 21, 2021 Venue: Online For our insightful conversations series, this month we bring a delightful and inspiring conversation with Dr. Bhawana Badhe and Mr. Sushrut Badhe on the topic: Krishna’s Butter – Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth. Moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, the conversation brings to light the inspiration

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A Creative Gurukul for a New Age

Date: October 21, 2021 Venue: Online “The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.”  (The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 120) For this month’s Insightful Conversation section, we are happy to bring a deeply inspiring conversation on a topic close

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Ramayana: Cultural Mind of India

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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Art that Refines, Heals and Transforms: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education

As a follow-up to the session held on August 31, 2021 on “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education”, another session was organised on September 7, 2021 by the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Auro University, Surat in which Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti engaged in

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Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education

On August 31, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society was invited by Auro University and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Surat, to speak on the topic – “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education.” This webinar was organised as part of the University’s Lecture and Workshop Series, Part II of the

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Indian History in Indian Education: Beyond Ideologies and Politics

Date: August 15, 2021 Venue: Online “The past must be a spring-board towards the future, not a chain preventing us from advancing…all depends on the attitude towards the past.”(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 296) For the Insightful Conversations series, our topic this month is highly relevant for our present and future march as a

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Revisiting Nation, Nationalism and Culture in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

Watch the recording of the talk HERE. On August 15th, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti delivered a special lecture titled “Revisiting Nation, Nationalism and Culture in the Light of Sri Aurobindo” at an event organised by Sri Aurobindo Study Centre, Faculty of Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in association with the

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Sri Aurobindo – The Revolutionary Nationalist

On August 15th, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti delivered a lecture titled “Sri Aurobindo – The Revolutionary Nationalist” as the opening talk for the year-long series “Eternity’s Delegate” being organised by Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry. This event is is part of SACAR’s year-long celebrations of 150th Birth Anniversary Year of

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Dharma, Shāstra and Future Society

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

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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Special Event at Raj Nivas: “Celebrating Freedom: Sri Aurobindo, India and Shakti”

Date: September 6, 2019 Venue: Raj Nivas, Puducherry Hon’ble Lt. Gov. of Pondicherry, Dr. Kiran Bedi ji, Raj Nivas invited Sri Aurobindo Society to present two poster exhibitions as part of Raj Nivas Art and Culture Series, Edition 13, and also deliver two lectures as part of Raj Nivas Leadership and Lecture series, Edition 12.

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Poster Exhibition on Sri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom Movement

Venue: Pondicherry University Inauguration Date: August 15, 2019 Exhibition Dates: August 15-25, 2019 “India must have Swaraj in order to live for the world, not as a slave for the material and political benefit of a single purse-proud and selfish nation, but a free people for the spiritual and intellectual benefit of the human race.”

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

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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On Making India: An Interview with Aravindan Neelakandan

Date: March 3, 2019 On March 3, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Aravindan Neelakandan when he visited Pondicherry and Auroville area for conducting a couple of sessions at the Tantrotsav 2019 at Kalarigram. Aravindan Neelakandan is a prolific writer on many aspects of Indian culture and society, and is well-known for his book “Breaking

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“Sri Aurobindo – A Pioneer Social Thinker” – Lecture at Pondicherry University

Date: February 28, 2019 Venue: Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University The Department of Sociology at Pondicherry University invited Dr. Beloo Mehra to speak on the topic – “Sri Aurobindo – A Pioneer Social Thinker”. This lecture was part of the Sociology department’s Silver Jubilee lecture series. In her lecture Dr. Mehra highlighted that what makes

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Sri Aurobindo on Indian Culture – Talk at Sri Aurobindo Action, WB Chapter Study Camp

On December 28, 2018, Dr. Beloo Mehra presented a talk on “Sri Aurobindo and Indian Culture” to a group of about 20 visitors from West Bengal who were attending a study camp organized by Sri Aurobindo Action, West Bengal chapter. The natural and serene ambience of the open-air, under-the-tree setting at Udavi School, Auroville provided

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