Source AHMEDABAD, INDIA, October 31, 2019 (Buddhist Door): Some 1,500 Dalits embraced Buddhism in a mass conversion ceremony in the Indian state of Gujarat on 27 October. The ceremony was held at the Sardar Vallabhahai Patel National Memorial in Ahmedabad in the southwest of the state. The city is approximately 186 miles north of Mumbai in Maharashtra, a major center…
Source There is nothing amazing in the world. Your ignorance shows when you find it so. It all happened long, long ago. What can be amazing? I am you and you are me. I am eternal, birthless, deathless, changeless, secondless.— Satguru Yogaswami, (1862-1964) Sri Lankan mystic
Source GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA , October 29, 2019 (By Francois Gautier, IT News): “Hinduism is the only religion today that accepts and respects all the other religions and Hindus are descendants of one of the most ancient civilization in human history, but there are many Western journalists and correspondents who are still biased against India.” So said Francois Gautier, an…
Source Free will is not free–it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect–but there is something behind the will which is free.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Source BANGLADESH, October 27, 2019 (Dhaka Tribune by Abak Hussain): Social media has many uses — some good, some mildly disturbing. But what we are seeing now in Bangladesh, most recently in Bhola and in many other places before that, is unmatched in its vileness, and reveals the existence of a mind-set in our country that most decent people would…
Source INDIA, October 26, 2019 (Star of Mysore): As Deepavali, the festival of lights approaches, mounds of earthen lamps piled up in baskets are growing outside shops in Mysuru. They are in direct competition with shops selling electric goods — the long line of multi-colored, China-made fairy lights dangle and wink at the traditional clay lamps. They seem to be…
Source The way to freedom is a way of silence–of silent resolve and silent service.— Sadhu Vaswani, (1879-1966) founder the Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 22, 2019 (Hindustan Times): The Andhra Pradesh government headed by chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has done away with the retirement rule for temple priests on attaining superannuation at the age of 65. “He [a priest] shall continue in the post till he is physically fit to perform his archakatvam [priesthood] duties,” a government…
Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, October 24, 2019 (The Hindu): The renovation of a temple “acquired” by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has reportedly not gone well with archaeologists and heritage lovers, who find it “blatant defacing” of the ancient structure. Nestling under the Chandragiri hillock, less than two-thirds of a mile from the famed fort of the Vijayanagara kings, the 16th…
Source One who is established in a comfortable posture while concentrating on the inner Self naturally becomes immersed in the heart’s ocean of bliss. — Siva Sutras 3.16