Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com If our senses conveyed the whole truth to us, we would see the Earth as rivers and glaciers of electrons, each speck of dust as a rolling mass of light. Paramahansa Yogananda
Malaysia Bans Hindu Rights Action Force
www.chennaionline.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, October 16, 2008: The Malaysian Government has banned the non-governmental Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), branding it as a threat to national security. Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar issued a statement declaring Hindraf, which has been advocating ethnic Indian rights since late last year, as an illegal organisation. “As a result of the investigations, the Home…
Clarification on HPI’s Summary of Orissa Police Report
www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, October 18, 2008: Yesterdays HPI note on the Orissa police report mistakenly said “exposing a group the police supposes to be Christian,” rather than “we (ie, HPI) assume to be Christian.” We make this assumption because of the use of the term “particular community” by the police in the Times of India report: ” ‘Maoists were given…
Dalit Shot For Entering Temple
www.thestatesman.net PATNA, INDIA, October 11, 2008: At least three incidentsof violence against Dalits took place during Navaratri. People belonging to Dalit community were kicked, punched and prohibited from entering temples. The latest atrocity occurred in Nalanda–the district where Buddha and Mahavira had preached the message of social harmony and breaking of caste barriers–where a Dalit youth was shot because he…
Destruction of Hindu Deities in Suriname
dwtdatabase-com.web5.tempwebsite.net PARAMARIBO, SURINAME, October 6, 2008 – Two men were arrested over the weekend by the police in connection with the destruction of Hindu Deities at the temple under the Wijdenbosch Bridge at Meerzorg, Commewijne. Police inspector Humphrey Naarden told the press that they still are not sure what the motive for the vandalism was, although one of the suspects…
Giant Jain Temple Opens in California
www.religionnewsblog.com BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, October 15, 2008: A new $20 million Jain temple opened last weekend, following 11 days of dancing, worship and theater topped off by a parade and a traditional ceremony to install sacred marble statues, representing people who attained enlightenment. Together with its attached cultural center, classrooms and a planned 10,000-tome library, the complex replaces a much…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com Man’s control of nature external is called civilization. His control of nature internal is called culture. Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1992), founder, Chinmaya Mission
Maoists Hired to Kill Swami, Claims Orissa Police; Mastermind Identified
timesofindia.indiatimes.com [HPI note: This article reports on the same events brought in yesterday’s edition of HPI, but offers a strikingly different perspective, exposing a group behind the marxist killers who executed the crime.] BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA, INDIA, October 17, 2008: The Orissa police have claimed that the mastermind of VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati’s killing had been identified as a group which…
Sri Lanka Will Use Banana Leaves As Commercial Food Wrappers
www.hinduonnet.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 14, 2008: In an eco-friendly measure against the environmental hazard caused by polythene wrappers, the Sri Lanka government has evolved a technique to prepare food wrappers from banana leaves. According to the Sri Lankan Agriculture Ministry, “a technique has beenperfected to produce cured banana leaves that can be kept more thanone month under refrigerated condition…
New Hindu School opens in the Netherlands
www.youtube.com ALMERE, NETHERLANDS, The Shri Ganesha primary school opened with 35 pupils on August 8th 2008 in Almere, Netherlands. This is the fourth Hindu school opened by the Hindu Education Foundation (Stichting Hindoe Onderwijs) and is the sixth in the Netherlands. Other schools are located in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. The Foundation expects that the new school will…