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www.hinduismtoday.com You are your own friend and your own enemy. Yogaswami of Sri Lanka (1872-1964)
Nepalese Hindus Convert to Islam For Work
www.speroforum.com QATAR, January 30, 2009: More and more Nepalese emigrants who have gone to Muslim majority countries to work – for example, on the Arabian Peninsula – are abandoning their Hindu religion and embracing Islam in order to improve their economic and social situation. According to figures from the Nepalese workers’ union, in Qatar alone there have been about 2,000…
Scientific American Publishes “How Meat Contributes to Global Warming”
www.sciam.com USA, January 21, 2009: [HPI note: Most publications covering global warming avoid any articles about the irrefutable link between meat consumption and CO2 emissions. It is significant that Scientific American, a respected magazine, finally ran an article about it.] Producing beef for the table releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Pound for pound, the greenhouse gases from beef…
Monkey Prevents Demolition of Hanuman Temple
multimedia.asiaone.com KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 31, 2009: In India’s southern Karnataka, a monkey prevented the authorities from demolishing a roadside Hanuman temple by attacking any officials who venture near the temple premises. (Click on the link above to see the video). The monkey fiercely defended the temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey God, Hanuman. Locals said the monkey normally is docile,…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com If we look at the past and we look at the future as both a series of dreams, and the only thing that we are concerned with is our immediate reactions and what we carry with us now, we see that the past is there to test us and the future is there to challenge us. We cannot change…
Controversy Over Yoga Ban in Indonesia Continues
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: Performing yoga is not un-Islamic– indeed, offering namaz, the Islamic prayer is also a form of the practice yoga, according to Adil Siddiqui, spokesperson of Darul Uloom Deoband, India’s leading Islamic seminary. Dismissing the recent controversy over the issue, Siddiqui said Wednesday that “Yoga is not a problem in Islam, but giving a…
Acid Oceans Deteriorating Many Times Faster Than Previously Thought
news.bbc.co.uk MONACO, January 30, 2009: The world’s marine ecosystems risk being severely damaged by ocean acidification unless there are dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions, warn scientists. Research shows that pH levels are changing 100 times faster than natural variability, as revealed in a symposium here today. The researchers warn that ocean acidification, which they refer to as “the other CO2…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. Ramana Maharshi
Sri Swami Vimalananda and Sri Swami Padmanabhananda Will Lead the Divine Life Society
By Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent, India/South Asia NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 31, 2009: Sri Swami Padmanabhanandaji Maharaj has been appointed as the new General Secretary of The Divine Life Society by the Board of Trustees of The Divine Life Trust Society in their meeting held on the 4th January, 2009. His Holiness Sri Swami Vimalananda, 76, a senior monk of…
Hindus File Complain Against “Slumdog Millionaire” in Goa
www.hinduonnet.com PANAJI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: [HPI Note: This movie has been called a serious contender for this year’s Academy Awards. Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young uneducated man from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati. Its plotline…