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)
Source INDIA, July 15, 2016 (The Better India): We all know water is essential, but too many of us think it’s unlimited. In reality, fresh water is a finite resource that is rapidly becoming scarce. In India, a warming climate is drying up lakes and rivers, while rapid urbanization and water pollution are putting enormous pressure on the quantity and…
Source We who have come from the East here have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back…
Source NAGAPATTINAM, INDIA, December 5, 2019 (New Indian Express): The 26th Guru Maha Sannidhanam of Dharmapuram Aadheenam Shanmuga Desiga Gnansambandha Paramachariya Swamigal died in a hospital at Thanjavur on Wednesday afternoon. He was 93. The cremation will take place on Thursday. Ilaya Sannithanam Srilasri Maasilamani Desiga Swamigal is expected to take over as Guru Maha Sannidhanam. [An aadheenam is a…
Source As long as someone cries out “O God! O God!” be sure that he has not found God, for whoever has found Him becomes still.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source INDIA, November 30, 2019 (Telangana Today): It is a tribute to all that he did and achieved, so painstakingly and with such great devotion, that New Delhi has for a third time honored an Indian who did perhaps more than anyone else to lay the foundation for yoga in the West. The tragedy is that despite his stellar contribution…