Source WONOTIRTO, INDONESIA, July 29, 2019 (RNS) Across this majority-Muslim country, the end of Ramadan is an occasion for celebration. But in this small village in Central Java, it is also an auspicious time to honor one’s ancestors in a festival called Haul. As is often the case in Javanese culture, the celebration is a mixture of Islam, Hinduism and…
Source Come apart from the clever argumentation of contending theology and, for a brief while, look inward, that one look shall drive the nail into the coffin of birth and forever end its cycle recurring. — Tirumantiram 1631
Source KASHMIR, INDIA, July 29, 2019 (Al Jazeera): Hindu pilgrims looking for enlightenment are flocking to Amarnath Cave in Indian-administered Kashmir in growing numbers. The pilgrims travel over 8.7 miles of hostile terrain to one of India’s holiest shrines. But environmentalists say the waste they leave behind is threatening the environment and polluting Kashmir’s main water source with little government…
Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, August 2, 2019 (Tribune India): (HPI note: This report came before the government shut down the pilgrimage as reported above.) As part of age-old traditions related to the Amarnath yatra, the holy mace Chhari Mubarak was carried to the Sharika-Bhawani temple, Hari Parbat, for prayers. Custodian of the mace Mahant Deependra Giri said the mace was taken…
Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, August 2, 2019 (News 18): Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday curtailed the Amarnath Yatra and asked pilgrims to leave the state immediately after the Army revealed intelligence inputs confirming the possibility of a terror attack. The announcement came hours after the Army said it had information that Pakistan was planning to disrupt the annual…
Source You may develop a thousand virtues and be reckoned as the greatest in the land. But the lotus of your heart will not blossom until you receive the grace of the Guru, the grace of God! — Dada J.P. Vaswani, spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Source UNITED STATES, July 19, 2019 (Facebook): Even the most skeptical would be surprised to know the case of Catherine, a patient of Brian Weiss whose case is exposed in his best-selling Spanish language book Muchas Vidas, Muchos Maestros (Many Lives, Many Teachers). In an interview with Adela Micha, the doctor and psychiatrist points out that he induced the patient…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, July 24, 2019 (Financial Express by Monidipa Dey): Kanwar Yatra or Kanvad Yatra is a teerth yatra or pilgrimage that takes place every year during the Hindu month of Shravan (July), when millions of devotees across north and parts of eastern India travel on foot or in trucks to pour the holy waters of Ganga on Shiva.…
Source SIALKOT, PAKISTAN, July 27, 2019 (Samaa TV): The Shawala Teja Singh Temple has been reopened for people after 72 years. It is located in Sialkot’s Dhaarowal. The centuries-old temple, which was built by Sardar Teja Singh, was closed during Partition in 1947. The Hindus of Sialkot stopped coming to the temple after a mob damaged it in 1992 while…
Source The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves. They declared to all: “Mortals, striving and struggling upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life: we have come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these appearances, these vanishing names and forms that go…