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Renaissance - Sri Aurobindo Society BhāratShakti - India, From Past Dawns to Future Noons - A dedicated dept of Sri Aurobindo Society, with focus on Sri Aurobindo's Vision for India's Rebirth.

Key works: Publishing 3 Online Periodicals, Talks, Workshops, Courses, Exhibitions. See the Links. BhāratShakti - India, From Past Dawns to Future Noons is a dedicated department of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry with focus on Sri Aurobindo's Vision for India's Rebirth. Explore our websites - bharatshakti.aurosociety.org and renaissance.aurosociety.org to learn more about our works.

Jugal Kishore Mukherji writes: "Science is now poignantly aware that the world-knowledge it builds up as an abstracted a...
07/06/2026

Jugal Kishore Mukherji writes:

"Science is now poignantly aware that the world-knowledge it builds up as an abstracted and therefore partial and imperfect knowledge, leaves out much that is refractory to scientific treatment, and even in its delimited field of enquiry, the formulas of Science, although pragmatically correct and governing the practical how of things, do not disclose the intrinsic how or why; “rather they have the air of the formulae of a cosmic Magician, precise, irresistible, automatically successful each in its field, but their rationale is fundamentally unintelligible”.

Evidently, present-day “Science has missed something essential; it has seen and scrutinised what has happened and in a way how it has happened, but it has shut its eye to something that made this impossible possible, something it is there to express. There is no fundamental significance in things if you miss the Divine Reality; for you remain embedded in a huge surface crust of manageable and utilisable appearance.”

READ MORE IN THE CURRENT ISSUE. LINK IN BIO AND IN COMMENTS.

06/06/2026

Explore the current issue of Renaissance with its focus on Science and Spirituality. Link in Bio.

Happening at Sri Aurobindo Society, Ulsoor, Bengaluru next weekend! Join us if you are in that area.
06/06/2026

Happening at Sri Aurobindo Society, Ulsoor, Bengaluru next weekend! Join us if you are in that area.

Webinar series – Understanding the Gunas as per the Bhagavad GitaAs an extension to the 5-week online course titled Self...
05/06/2026

Webinar series – Understanding the Gunas as per the Bhagavad Gita

As an extension to the 5-week online course titled Self-management Lessons from the Gita, conducted by BhāratShakti department of Sri Aurobindo Society in Feb-March, 2026, a special 3-webinar series was offered on the topic Understanding the Gunas in the Light of the Bhagavad Gita on May 9, 16 and 23rd. The idea for this topic emerged from some of the discussions in the earlier course and in view of the keenness and receptivity shown by the participants for the same.

Online sessions were held every Saturday from 9.30 AM to 11.00 AM. The webinars were primarily facilitated by Mr. Narendra Murty, Author and Research Associate, BhāratShakti, who also selected the content to be shared with the participants. Some additional inputs were provided by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti.

The presentation of the subject matter was made in the first one hour of the session, and the remaining time was devoted to interaction and answering questions from the participants through lively interactions. The topics that were covered are as follows:

From Chap 14 of Bhagavad Gita: Guna Traya Vibhaga Yoga

Basic definitions of the three Gunas.
The nature of each Guna.
The play of the three Gunas and how they affect our being.
The consequences that follow from each Guna
The dimension above the Gunas

From Chap 2 of Bhagavad Gita: Sankhya Yoga

Transcendence of the Gunas

In respect of the concepts covered, first the relevant Sanskrit verse was studied going deeply into the meaning of each word. Thereafter, the sense of the verse was analysed and explained using the writings of Sri Aurobindo from sources like Essays on the Gita, The Synthesis of Yoga and Letters on Yoga. In addition to this, parables, anecdotes, historical events and real-life incidents were cited to bring more clarity to the verses.

The sessions were appreciated by all the participants.

05/06/2026

"Flowers are the prayers of the vegetal world." (The Mother)

Work is in full swing for the fourth edition of our Invoking Shakti workshop at Creative School & Prajña Wisdom Centre
04/06/2026

Work is in full swing for the fourth edition of our Invoking Shakti workshop at Creative School & Prajña Wisdom Centre

New writing by Beloo Mehra, published in Auroville Tomorrow, May 2026SPIRITUAL GIFT OF INDIA TO THE WORLD Sri Aurobindo ...
03/06/2026

New writing by Beloo Mehra, published in Auroville Tomorrow, May 2026

SPIRITUAL GIFT OF INDIA TO THE WORLD

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Mahayogis of 20th century, saw India as the spiritual battlefield of the world where the final victory over the forces of the Ignorance and darkness would be achieved. A closer look at the broad cultural shifts happening in the world today reveals two possibilities: a) masses of humanity moving toward a consumerist-materialistic culture sold aggressively by multinational corporations and financial institutions, with a smattering of ‘diversity’ provided as extra topping to slightly ‘season’ the bland mono-culture; b) a vehement rejection of this universalising secular tendency and building of a narrow, separate identity based on a credal religion and rigid religious instinct – which in its worst possible extreme, tends to impose itself forcibly and violently on all as the only alternative to the other possibility which rejects religion altogether.

Sri Aurobindo anticipated both these possibilities, and cautioned against them. That is why he brought forth in his writings – based on his cosmic vision of human history and yogic insight into human psychology – the essential spiritual values of Indian culture which are timeless and relevant for the future age, and indispensable to the conception of a perfect human culture. But Sri Aurobindo is no revivalist, nor a proud nationalist singing past glories. Recognising the distortions and rigidities that inevitably make their way into any culture over the long course of time, he says that completeness or finality cannot be “alleged of no past or present cultural idea or system”

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CALL FOR DONATION! Support our works that are offered as our expression of love and reverence for Mother India, at the f...
02/06/2026

CALL FOR DONATION! Support our works that are offered as our expression of love and reverence for Mother India, at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

The works and programs we take up through Renaissance, including the publication of FREE online journals and organising a rich variety of offline and online events, require money. Please consider donating.

Use this link to contribute and support our works - https://pages.razorpay.com/Rnsnc/

02/06/2026

Glimpses from our recent workshop 'The Sacred in Indian Art'

Jugal Kishore Mukherji writes: "Does not the Kathopanishad point out that in men the Self-Existent has cut the doors of ...
01/06/2026

Jugal Kishore Mukherji writes:

"Does not the Kathopanishad point out that in men the Self-Existent has cut the doors of consciousness outward, but a few men turn the eye inward and it is these who see and know the Spirit and develop the spiritual being?

"Men of science should note that our subjective movements and inner experiences are a domain of happenings as real as any outward physical happenings, with laws of their own and their special method of scrutiny and affirmation and hence “to refuse to enquire upon any general ground preconceived and a priori is an obscurantism as prejudicial to the extension of knowledge as the religious obscurantism which opposed in Europe the extension of scientific discovery”. (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA 22: 677)"

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