The Mother

Recovering the Aryan Spirit: Some Reflections on the Mother’s Symbol

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

Date: October 11, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata Recording will be available soon. Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata to deliver a talk on October 11, 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,

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya: Teacher Workshop on ‘Insights from Integral Yoga and Indian Spiritual Tradition on Love and Relationships’

All Life is Yoga, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Start date: September 19, 2025 End date: September 20, 2025 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, 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 75 teachers and administrators on the theme: ‘Insights from

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Three Day Workshop for Students – Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Start Date: 15 September 2025 End Date: 17 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Freedom Land, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 3-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 10-18) on the theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and

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Invoking Shakti: Workshop on Art Appreciation for Children

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Past Works, Workshops

Date: 12 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Bileshivale, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to conduct a day-long workshop for about 90 students (ages 3-9) on the topic of Art Appreciation at Creative School in Bileshivale area, Bengaluru. The specific topic was taken up under a larger theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’ which made

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Four Powers of the Mother – A Residential Workshop-Retreat

All Life is Yoga, Upcoming Programmes, Workshops

Dates: November 28-30, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Sangama-Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team will be conducting a two-day immersive workshop-retreat on the topic – Four Powers of the Mother. The residential programme will be hosted by Sri Aurobindo Dhama located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river in Sangama-Mekedatu

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Insights on Teaching – An Interactive Session for Uditam

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works

Date: August 22, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion on Friday,August 22, 2025. All the participants were teachers at various Auro Schools; so for his session, Mr. Murty decided

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Renaissance Redux – Release of Third Issue of BhāratShakti’s Quarterly Publication

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Renaissance Journal

Date: August 15, 2025 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features selections from the vast archives of the online journal Renaissance which has been published since 2019 and presents them in a thematic manner. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each

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What is Shakti – An Interactive Session for Uditam

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

Date: August 1, 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 Friday, August 1, 2025. All the participants were women, and many of them being teachers working at Auro Schools; so for

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Sri Aurobindo as a Teacher – An Interactive Session for Uditam

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works

Date: July 19, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan Listen to the Recording 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, July 19, 2025. Most of the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo

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A Course for Karmayogi Bharat, a Govt. of India Initiative

Courses and Study Groups, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: July 16, 2025 Venue: Online – iGOT Karmayogi Earlier this year, an MoU was signed between Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS) and Karmayogi Bharat, a Government of India initiative under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). Under this MoU, Karmayogi Bharat and SAS decided to work together in actively building capacity of

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The Yogic Attitude Towards Money

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

Renaissance E-book 6 Editor: Dr. Beloo Mehra Released: July 2025 The Yogic Attitude Towards Money is a Free eBook available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have given us the ideal attitude that a sādhaka of Integral Yoga must cultivate towards money. A sādhaka must neither turn

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Seeing the Whole Child – Foreword for the book ‘A Child’s Journey’

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Published Elsewhere, Samvād: The Book Series

Author: Beloo Mehra Release Date: June 28, 2025 Publisher: The Healing Circle, Bengaluru In April 2025, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to write a Foreword for an upcoming book titled ‘A Child’s Journey’. The book authored by Jayashree Ashok, published by The Healing Circle, Bengaluru, was launched on June 28, 2025 at Creative

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School as a Place for Teachers’ Progress – Interactive Session for Uditam

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works

Date: June 28, 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, June 28, 2025. As all the participants were teachers from two schools connected with Sri Aurobindo Society, for her session,

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Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri – Talk by Ananda Reddy

All Life is Yoga, Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: June 23, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of a natural follow-up to a webinar titled ‘Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-Poet‘, organised by BhāratShakti on December 7, 2024 a special online talk was organised on June 23, 2025 on the topic “Love and Death: Two Protagonists in Savitri.”    The invited speaker for

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Harmony Within and Without – Talk for IYD 2025

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works

Date: June 16, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording As part of the week-long celebration of International Yoga Day 2025, organised by AuroYajna, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to deliver two talks on June 16 and 17. The theme of the celebration was – Yoga and Awakening: Bharat’s Gift to

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Yuvā Shakti – Indian View on Character Development

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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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Light on Human Relationships – An Interactive Session for Uditam

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works

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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Saṃvṛddhi: Deepening Our Roots and Growing With Others -Two-day Workshop for Teachers

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

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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The Indian Painting – May 2025, Renaissance

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Writings, Past Works, Renaissance Journal

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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