Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 28, 2018 (LA Times): Capping a month of historic judgments that have expanded civil liberties for hundreds of millions of citizens, the Indian Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Hindu temple’s ban on females of menstruating age, declaring that the centuries-old rule violated women’s rights. The renowned Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala…
Source Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.— Swami Krishnananda, General Secretary, Divine Life Society
Source HONOLULU, HAWAII, September 28, 2018 (Big Island Now): Gov. David Y. Ige, signed a historic agreement with delegates from Goa, a state in India, which is Hawai’i’s first sister-state relationship with a jurisdiction in India. The Director of Art and Culture, Gurudas Pilarnekar, signed on behalf of the Goa state government. The signing ceremony took place at Washington Place.…
Source INDIA, September 22, 2018 (Swarajyamag): The foundation for the country’s first Centre for Vedic Research was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (18 September) at Banaras Hindu University, Times of India has reported. The Prime Minister launched this centre during his two-day visit to his home constituency on the occasion of his birthday. The centre as proposed…
Source BALI, INDONESIA, September 27, 2018 (Straits Times): The Bali administration is preparing a new regulation that will ban tourists from entering the main and most sacred parts of temples across the island after a series of incidents where boorish tourists desecrated Bali’s holy sites. Balinese Hindus were shocked when a photo of a foreigner sitting on top of a…
Source “Sweet are the sounds of the flute and the lute,” say those who have not heard the prattle of their own children.— Tirukkural
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, September 22, 2018 (HPI): Hinduism Today’s latest issue has gone to press and is now available online free of charge at “source” above. You can also download our free Hinduism Today app and get the entire magazine in a mobile-friendly format for your device at bit.ly/HT-APP. In this issue’s Publisher’s Desk editorial, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami addresses how…
Source USA, September 23, 2018: Dilip Amin posted the YouTube video at source above entitled “Fake News on Interfaith Marriages” He writes: “ABP News has made many errors covering my poster at the World Hindu Congress, Chicago and concluded based on statements that I did not make. Now all other media are taking it as gospel and spinning the story.…
Source BALI, INDONESIA, September 21, 2018 (The Guardian): Authorities in Bali have vowed to stop Westerners in bikinis posing in front of sacred temples as they lament a decline in the “quality of tourists” visiting the island. Bali deputy governor Tjokorda Oka Artha Sukawati, known as Cok Ace, said the authorities had been concerned by a recent rise in disrespectful…
Source SRINAGAR, August 26, 2018 (Tribune India): The two-month-long Amarnath yatra concluded peacefully on Sunday with the holding of prayers at the cave shrine of Lord Shiva nestled in the South Kashmir Himalayas at an altitude of around 13,500 feet. Puja was held when the Chhari Mubarak (holy mace) depicting Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati arrived at the shrine. “We…