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 and cannot believe in the acceptance and transformation of life by the spirit, but all who are free in mind and heart to accept a completer truth and labour for a greater ideal.”
~ Sri Aurobindo
BhāratShakti team is curating a half-day workshop in Hindi for a group of students from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, visiting to Pondicherry for a study camp. This is an annual programme organised by Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar. The students will be visiting Sri Aurobindo Society on June 2. The camp organizers had approached the BhāratShakti team to design an inspirational educational programme for these students.
The workshop will focus on character development from an Indian perspective, as given by Sri Aurobindo in his writings on the true meaning and significance of the word ‘Arya’. He has also spoken of Aryan character development as an essential aspect of true education.
Taking inspiration from these writings, the workshop will engage the youth through a series of discussions, storytelling and engaging activities and collaborative work to highlight the value of virtues such as courage, humility, non-detached action and thirst for deepening and widening one’s knowledge of self and the world, as part of one’s overall character development. The sessions during the workshop will be kept interactive so as to engage the young minds and hearts.
BhāratShakti department has been organising similar workshops for the students of Sardar Patel University for the last couple of years. See previous reports HERE and HERE.
For programme details, see the attached PDF. For additional information, please email Beloo Mehra at: [email protected]