Daily Inspiration
Source Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralyzing ones.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Daily Inspiration
Source Hinduism is the most skeptical and the most believing of all religions. The most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most and the deepest, rejecting nothing but insisting on testing and experiencing everything. From this comes our scriptures and our beliefs: the Vedas, the Vedanta, the Gita, the Upanishads… But the most authoritative scripture is in the…
Help Us Find On-Line Temple Worship and Events
KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, April 17, 2020 (HPI): Hinduism Today is requesting readers to help us assemble a list of URLs to access either regular pujas or special events at Hindu temples around the world during this time of lockdown on account of the Corona virus. For example, the BAPS Neasden Temple is doing live webcasts once each day here: https://youtu.be/YfQrsxVo430.…
Israel’s Prime Minister Encourages “Namaste” Greeting in Place of Handshakes During Coronavirus Outbreak
Source ISRAEL, March 5, 2020 (newsweek.com): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the spread of coronavirus in Israel at a Wednesday press conference, suggesting that Israelis forego the normal greeting ritual of shaking hands and instead adopt the Indian meeting tradition of the Namaste. Netanyahu claimed the Namaste may help to slow the person-to-person spread of coronavirus on Israeli…
Daily Inspiration
Source In thinking “This is I” and “That is mine” one binds himself with himself, as does a bird with a snare.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishad 3.2
New Statue Of Lord Hanuman Installed At Ram Janmabhoomi Site, Old Damaged Statue Immersed In Saryu River
Source INDIA, April 13, 2020 (Swarajyamag): A new statue of Lord Hanuman has been installed at the makeshift Ram Janmabhoomi temple site here. The old statue was damaged but could not be replaced till now due to the Supreme Court directive for maintaining “status quo” owing to the pending case on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The old statue has…
First Hindu University in Muslim-Majority Indonesia Named after Sugriva
Source BALI, INDONESIA, April 13, 2020 (Sunrise Read): The first Hindu university has been opened in Indonesia in the name of Sugriva, a character from the Ramcharit Manas. Indonesia has converted an institute in Bali into the first Hindu university in the country. Under the Presidential Regulation, Hinduism State Institute of Denpasar, Bali has been made the first Hindu State…
Daily Inspiration
Source I felt great need of a holy pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.— Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
Himalayan Academy Has Just Completed a Free Online Course Called “Lessons for Sequestered Families”
Source HAWAII, U.S., April 13, 2020 (Himalayan Academy): As the name suggests, the digital course was created to help uplift and inspire everyone and anyone who might be feeling the impact of the current global situation. Families are in lockdown, unable to visit their local temple, ashram or yoga studio. There is a need for a digital diet that is…
Volunteers Feed Hungry Animals at Nepal’s Revered Shrine
Source KATMANDU, NEPAL, April 13, 2020 (Brownsville Herald): In this photo, a Nepalese volunteer carries a sack of corn to feed pigeons at Pashupatinath temple, the country’s most revered Hindu temple, during the lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal. Guards, staff and volunteers are making sure animals and birds on the temple grounds don’t starve during the country’s lockdown, which halted temple…