Source VARANASI, INDIA, November 24, 2018 (pgurus): The world famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi will soon be accessible to pilgrims directly from the famed ghats of the river Ganga. The process of constructing a corridor by the Uttar Pradesh government between the river Ganga and Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi is in full swing. The project has been sanctioned…
Source Hinduism is an orthodox religion, conservative in its ways and yet pliant and understanding. It is simultaneously the most demanding spiritual path and the most forgiving. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, November 21, 2018: Hinduism Today is pleased to announce the release of their first history movie video, “Let’s Go Back 6,000 years,” at source above. The Indus Valley Civilization is the song’s subject. It a song for children intended to supplement the popular History of Hindu India documentary “From Ancient Times”(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkA3jcdbA5kTwKf5gHchrJliKCMTM__7B) In the course of our extended…
Source PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA, November 21, 2018 (Free Malaysia Today): The Malaysia Hindu Sangam has praised the way in which the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple’s relocation in Seafield, Subang Jaya was handled, saying it can serve as a template for future land disputes involving religious buildings. Speaking to FMT, Hindu Sangam president RS Mohan Shan said it had been involved…
Source DA NANG, VIETNAM, November 19, 2018 (New Kerala): President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Kovind visited the Museum of Cham sculpture in the city of Da Nang on Monday morning on the second day of his three-day visit to Vietnam. The first couple also visited the My Son temple sanctuary that dates from the 4th to the…
Source Who there be who, like our Lord, knows the great and the small, the difficult and the facile? Only they who, like a tortoise, withdraw the five senses under their shell. They hear and see the here and the beyond, and have all impurities dispelled. — Tirumantiram, verse 133
Source A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the Sun makes the world active with its rays, so does self-awareness change the mind. In its light, energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. — Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981), Hindu sage
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, November 12, 2018 (Himalayan Academy–home of HPI and Hinduism Today): On the favorable day of Skanda Shasti, the bronze Avudaiyar, the solid metal base for the temple’s 700-pound crystal Sivalingam, was transported to Iraivan Temple and moved partway into the inner sanctum where it will eventually be installed. Watch as the silpis temple craftsmen deftly maneuver this…
Source MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, November 11, 2018 (Star Tribune): The men and women relaxing on yoga mats recently at a Minneapolis meditation center didn’t know it, but most belonged to the fastest-growing religion in America — none at all. They included a former Lutheran who left the church because the Bible clashed with science, a former Catholic who became leery of…
Source He who is called Brahman by the jnanis is known as atman by the yogis and as Bhagavan by the bhaktas. But even That disappears when the aspirant reaches nirvikalpa samadhi. — Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)