Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…
Source USA, June 3, 2020 (HPI): This short video recounts the first atomic bomb test, July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, and includes video of Robert Oppenheimer explaining why he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita following the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was a student of Sanskrit. Wikipedia states: Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion,…
Source MANGALURU, INDIA, June 1, 2020 (Times of India): The temples coming under the Muzrai department in Karnataka suffered a loss of nearly US$79.5 million revenue during the lockdown period due to the pandemic, state Muzrai minister Kota Srinivas Poojary said Monday. Addressing reporters here, he said the Kollur Sri Mookambika temple alone lost a revenue of at least $1.854…
Source Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with wool to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.— Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, May 26, 2020 (India Herald): Since the early days of the pandemic, Hindus of Greater Houston (HGH) has channeled the community’s combined resources into multiple food drives, distribution of PPE’s and actively fundraising to help Houstonians impacted by the economic shutdown. About $100,000 has been raised by HGH to date for Sewa International and other organizations for…
Source GEORGETOWN, MALAYSIA, May 29, 2020 (The Star): The Penang Hindu Endowment Board (PHEB) will recommend to the state government against the reopening of temples in Penang. PHEB chairman Dr P. Ramasamy said the board would submit the recommendation during the state Covid-19 meeting on June 2. “The conditional movement control order (MCO) is still in force and reopening the…
Source Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the…
Source INDIA, May 27, 2020 (Stand Point India, by Sudarshan Ramabadran): The Cham civilization in Vietnam is back in focus, thanks to the latest find of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as part of the conservation project in My Son in Vietnam. India’s foreign minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar tweeted about a 1,100-year-old monolithic sandstone Shivalinga of 9th CE, as…
Source TIRUMALA, INDIA, May 28, 2020 (New Indian Express): Putting an end to the controversy over the proposed auction of its unviable properties [to alleviate income shortfall during the covid crisis], the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Board of Trustees on Thursday resolved not to sell any properties of the Lord Venkateswara or TTD including those donated by the devotees, through…
Source ODISHA, INDIA, May 21, 2020 (PV Magazine): The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has taken up the complete solarization of Konark Sun Temple and Konark town in Odisha. The scheme envisages setting up of 10 MW grid-connected solar project and various solar off-grid applications like solar trees, solar drinking water kiosks, off-grid solar power plants with battery…