INDIA, June 4, 2021 (North East News): The Maa Kamakhya Devalaya Parichalana Committee in Guwahati on Friday, said in a statement: “This is for general information that due to threats of the Covid pandemic, the Maa Kamakhya Devalaya will remain closed for devotees till June 30, 2021.” Moreover, the Kamakhya Temple will only hold the rituals during the Ambubachi Mela…
Like a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell, those who restrain the five senses in one life will find safe shelter for seven. Tirukkural 126
JAMMU, INDIA, June 8, 2021 (sputniknews.com): Thick black smoke was seen bellowing from the temple complex, which not only houses the shrine of Hindu Goddess Vaishno but also has accommodation for visitors to stay in. Firemen and security officials rushed to the hill-side site. The blaze has damaged the cash-counting room of the temple. No casualties have so far been…
The Eternal Religion, the religion of the rishis, has been in existence from time immemorial and will exist eternally. There exists in this Sanatana Dharma all forms of worship–worship of God with form and worship of the impersonal Deity as well. It contains all paths–the path of knowledge, the path of devotion and so on. Other forms of religion, the…
Indian Ocean Trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history. This video describes the typical trade routes from Indus Valley times to modern times. Long distance trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and Mombasa in the West. Cities…
The learned have prescribed penance for the murderer of a pious man, a drunkard, a thief or for one who has violated a solemn vow. But there is no pardon for the ungrateful. The Panchatantra
JAFFNA, SRI LANKA, June, 2021 (monsoonjournal.com): HPI note: This comprehensive four-page article is available in PDF form at “source” below, pages 38 to 41. An excerpt: One of the most well-known identity markers of Jaffna, widely used by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau as an emblem of the region, is the Nallur Kandaswamy Temple. It shows up well in…
At “source” below is a charming 9 minute video on the daily routine and work of the small group of silpis–temple stone carvers–presently completing the all-stone Iraivan Temple on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Enjoy hearing them tell their own story of working far from home on the America’s first all-granite Hindu temple founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and…
Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite. Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950)
CHENNAI, INDIA, May 12, 2021 (Atlas Obscura): Vaidyanatha Selvanathan Sthapati, 57, says he grew up in the pattarai (workshop) of his uncle, who taught him to be curious and observant, as nature was the inspiration for art and the work their family did. Before his death in 2011, Selvanathan’s uncle, Vaidyanatha Ganapathi Sthapati, was a prominent temple architect. Today, it…