Source SINGAPORE, December 16, 2019 (Straits Times): The Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple in Chinatown held a consecration ceremony yesterday. The event, conducted every 12 years, marks the re-energizing of the 94-year-old temple and the Deity within. The ceremony also marked the end of seven months of renovation and maintenance works that cost about US$738,000. Facilities were upgraded, including the…
Source To define God is grinding what is already ground; for He is the only being we know.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), founder of the Ramakrishna Mission
Source Everyone has willpower. It is inherent to the makeup of the physical-astral-mental-emotional body. The center of willpower is the manipura chakra, located at the solar plexus. Unlike other energies, the more willpower we use, the more willpower we have to use. This happens when we work a little harder than we think we can, do a little more than…
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, December 15, 2019 (HPI): It’s that time of year again when we appeal to all our readers to support our Hindu Press International and the many other free on-line services of Hinduism Today magazine, Himalayan Academy and the Hindu Heritage Endowment. The following is a message from our publisher, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami: Namaste, and welcome to our…
Source The practice of yoga is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature into the life of humanity. It is not personal ananda, but the bringing down of the divine ananda, the Satya…
Source INDIA, December 10, 2019 (India Legal): There’s nothing like religion to inflame passions. That is precisely what the ruling BJP government is facing in Uttarakhand after its latest edict. The hill state boasts of over 50 temples, including the Char Dham–the four revered shrines at Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. They will now be brought under the state government’s…
Source TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, December 10, 2019 (The Hindu): Hundreds of thousands of devotees thronged Tiruvannamalai to witness the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam on Tuesday. As the clock struck 6 p.m., the fire was lit by devotees in the more than five-foot-tall Kopparai (cauldron or vessel used for lighting) filled with ghee and camphor, atop the 2,668-foot-high hill. The District…
Source See yourself everywhere. You are the whole world.— Satguru Yogaswami (1872-1964), Sri Lankan mystic
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 9, 2019 (News 18): With “unequivocal evidence” that the Ghaggar river, where the early Harappans built their settlements, was perennial, a recent study has argued that this is the river known as the Saraswati in the Rig Veda. The hypothesis that modern-day Ghaggar-Hakra river system, which flows intermittently between India and Pakistan, could be the…
Source When in despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end they always fall–think of it, always.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)