Let Us Call Ourselves “Hindu Americans”
BY YASH PAL LAKRA According to the latest census estimates, there are about one million people of Indian origin living […]
Keeping Secrets, the First Step in Leaving Home
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI How to strengthen family ties is a very important question these days. It is said that
Italy’s Hindu Controversy
We have to overcome a misunderstanding asserted by Italian scholars that one has to be born in India to be
A Saint’s Self-Willed Death
By CHQODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE Dear friends,” began Swami Nirmalananda’s short missive of December 23, 1996, “It is with tearful feelings
Inauspicious or Not?
BY THE EDITOR Culturally clueless as you catch a flight to Calcutta for your first visit to India? Don’t despair.
Perfection Is in Your Luminous Essence
BY SWAMI SASTRANANDA Man (woman included) seeks and strives to be or have the best, the perfect, consciously or unconsciously,
Reaching for The Golden Ring
BY SWAMI SHUDDHANANDA BRAMACHARI Blessed are they who dwell on the deepest purposes of human life, especially in a world
Dissolving Boundaries
By JULIE RAJAN, PHILADELPHIA It is not an easy task for a Hindu writer born in India to break into
Suicide and Free Will
As the suicide of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate group in San Diego in March an event predetermined by
Murugan’s New Home
With reports from Eddin Khoo and K Anuradha of The Star, from the Tamil language Malaysia Nanban and Ramesh Sivanathan,