Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 8, 2019 (Houston Chronicle): The last day of school is the beginning of the countdown to Hindu Heritage Youth Camp. Namita Pallod remembers eagerly awaiting the start of camp each year, crossing off the days on her calendar along with her friends. “We always called camp the best five days of the year,” she said. Now,…
Source ALTARE, ITALY, August 28, 2019 (IVG translated from Italian): Two thousand faithful of the Hindu communities participated, as every year, in the Pellegrino ad Altare area at the Ganesh Festival. The pilgrims also came from outside to then find themselves, as tradition dictates, the anniversary dedicated to the God Ganesh. The celebrations took place at the Shri Lalita Mahatripurasundari…
Source To attain stillness of speech and thought at once is mauna. Mauna with speech alone is but a state of dumbness. Only when speech and thought are alike in mauna are you in a state of perfection. — Tirumantiram 1896
Source ABU DHABI, August 25, 2019 (Menafn): Thousands of expatriates marked Janmashtami, the annual Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Deity Krishna, with various events across Abu Dhabi. Festivities started at the BAPS Hindu Mandir site and various associations across the capital and Al Ain during the evening hours. The celebrations included singing devotional songs, recitation of the Bhagavad Gita,…
Source Hinduism has proven much more open to new ideas than any other religion, scientific thought and social experimentation. Many concepts, like reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others, have found worldwide acceptance. It would not be surprising to find Hinduism the dominant religion of the 21st-century. — Klaus L. Klostermaier, professor of religious studies at the University of Manitoba
Source INDIA, July 11, 2017 (Daily Beast): For one month a year, the icy waters of Roopkund Lake melt enough to reveal scattered skeletal remains of 200 humans who perished in the region 1,200 years ago. Because of the harsh conditions of the remote lake, nestled 15,750 feet in the Himalayan mountains of India bordering Nepal and only accessible via…
Source CAIRO, EGYPT, August 19, 2019 (Egyptian Streets): Cairo’s long awaited landmark “Hindu Palace” or “Baron Palace” will open its doors to welcome the public this October after its restoration is complete. Its much-needed renovation, which started in August 2017, was reported to cost over US$6 million. According to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, 90 percent…
Source Hinduism is not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex and subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization. Its tradition of the Godward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), philosopher, statesmen and second President of India
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 18, 2019 (NY Times): Officials of the Indian government and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are discussing whether a number of prized antiquities that the museum began acquiring three decades ago were the product of looting by Subhash Kapoor, a Manhattan art dealer accused of being one of the world’s most prolific smugglers of…
Source Do you realize the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept of…