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Tributes To Swami Laxmananda Saraswati
HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA September 8th, 2008 [by Rajiv Malik, HPI correspondent]: A public memorial was held September 7 in Orissa in honor of Hindu saint Swami Lakshamanananda Saraswati, whose brutal murder has shocked the nation. Swami Ji had served for four decades, walking miles through the most difficult terrain of Orissa’s tribal belt and teaching Vedas to women and…
Bad Manna–A Report On Christian Missionary Misdeeds In India
rameshnaidoo.blogspot.com INDIA, September 10, 2008: This site features a short film by Pia Scov on the conversion tactics of Christian missionary groups in India. Catholics, Protestants, and groups masquerading as Christian to further their own ends are the main abusers. With promises of money, healing and advantages these groups prey on the illiteracy, poverty and innocence of villagers to convert…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com Our peace of mind increases in spite of suffering; we become braver and more enterprising; we understand more clearly the difference between what is everlasting and what is not; we learn how to distinguish between what is our duty and what is not. Our pride melts away and we become humble. Our worldly attachments diminish and, likewise, the evil…
Bollywood Craze Grips Even Peru
www.realbollywood.com LIMA, PERU, February 5th, 2007:The tourist guidebooks to Peru will tell you about the Incas, Machu Pichu, the Amazonian rainforests, the soft Alpaca wool and the beautiful textiles. But nothing in the world prepared me for the music I heard in a small Peruvian village called Ollantaytambo, in the Andean mountains. As I walked past straying Alpacas and old…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name. Sri Sarada Devi
Promoting Eco-Friendly Ganeshas For Immersion
www.mumbaimirror.com MUMBAI, INDIA, September 9, 2008: This year, yet again, though civic officials have not gone out in promoting eco-friendly Ganeshotsav, organizations sculpting eco-friendly Ganesh deities have seen an increase in the demand for eco-friendly murthis. Says Sunil Mantri, CEO, Aniruddha Upasna Trust, “Immersion of deities made of Plaster of Paris gives out harmful chemicals in water. Also, when deities…
Court Orders Dalit’s Right to Worship in Hindu Temple
TAMIL NADU, INDIA, September 9, 2008: Tension gripped a village in this Tamil Nadu district on Monday after a Hindu temple was opened to Dalits on the orders of the Madras High Court. The court ruling prompted the protesting upper caste Vanniyar community to leave the village, officials said. The temple had been closed for nine months due to a…
Last Rites of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Performed
www.thestatesman.net PHULBANI, ORISSA, INDIA, September 7, 2008:Rituals associated with the death of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati — the Sodoshi Mohatshov, 16th day function — were held amidst unprecedented security measures at his Chakapada Ashram, 61 km from here today. Devotees from other parts of the state could not reach Chakapada and the scheduled Kalas Yatra (urn carrying the soil) of the…
UN Agency Suggests Eat Less Meat to Curb Global Warming
www.guardian.co.uk UNITED NATIONS, September 7, 2008: People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change. So said the world’s leading authority on global warming, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which earned a joint share of last year’s…