Essays, Commentaries, Jottings, Photography, Videos – In the Light of Sri Aurobindo
We recently had an opportunity to curate a digital exhibit for Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry. The exhibit titled, Hampi - A UNESCO World Heritage Site, can be accessed at the link below. Also browse through our 10-part series on Hampi
A visualization of a beautiful thought given to us by Sri Aurobindo. The words themselves are so evocative of beautiful images, so we offer this attempt with gratitude to the Master for his eternal guidance. "Flowers and trees are the poetry of Nature; the gardener is a romantic poet who has added richness, complexity of... Continue Reading →
A humble offering on the Mother’s 144th birthday, February 21, 2022
Author: Beloo Mehra (2020). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 51 (6), July 2020, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 16 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER XVI After a quick bath in his room at the guest house, Yuvaan went out to take in all the grandeur of the vast Somnāth... Continue Reading →
The sonnet 'Krishna' by Sri Aurobindo, dated 15 September 1939, speaks of the soul, heart and life becoming one with, realising their complete identity with the Anandamaya Sri Krishna, the Divine Lover. It paints a soul-stirring picture of a major spiritual realisation that Sri Aurobindo had in Alipore prison in 1908-09, of which he spoke... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2020). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 51 (6), June 2020, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 15 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER XV Yuvaan was fascinated to learn of some historical details about the temple reconstruction in free India. It was only after the accession... Continue Reading →
(Recitation: Beloo Mehra, Video compilation: Suhas Mehra) As a result of his thorough European education, first in Darjeeling and then in England since the age of seven, Sri Aurobindo grew up fluent in English and unable to speak his mother tongue. During his last two years in England, while studying at Cambridge he began to... Continue Reading →
Continued from Part 1 Photos and video by Suhas Mehra, text by Beloo Mehra In the previous part we spent some time inside the three main shrines of the magnificent Sri Bhoga Nandishwara Temple, situated at the foothills of Nandi Hills near Bengaluru, Karnataka. Let us now explore some more of the divine beauty spread... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2020). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 51 (5), May 2020, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 14 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER XIV Yuvaan was now really looking forward to being at the Somnāth temple at Prabhas Patan. He had just received a little lesson... Continue Reading →
A day after Her first meeting with Sri Aurobindo, The Mother wrote in her dairy: It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light,... Continue Reading →
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