Source CAMBRIDGE, CANADA, January 18, 2018 (The Record): It has a hectare of empty land, purchased 18 years ago. It has 400 families worth of supporters from across Waterloo Region and Guelph. Now, the Cambridge Hindu Society would like to construct a new temple off the southern tip of the Toyota plant and move out of old digs it has…
Source BREMEN, GERMANY, January 17, 2018 (DW): A German milk cow has given her approval to a proposed site for a Hindu temple outside Bremen. The local Hindu community borrowed the animal to suss out whether the land would be good for a temple. A Hindu priest and a group of Bremen Hindus led the milk cow to the field…
Source SRI LANKA, January 14, 2018 (Sunday Observer by P. Krishnaswamy): The country’s Hindus are celebrating the “Pongal” harvest festival, popularly known as Thai Pongal, celebrated in the first four days of the month of Thai in the Tamil-Hindu calendar. Traditionally, Thai Pongal is the festival of farmers who depend on Mother Earth, sun, rain, other natural elements and cows…
Source In the four eternal Vedas; In the study and reading of scripts; In sacred ashes and in holy writs and muttering of prayers you will not find the Lord! Melt with the heart inside And proclaim the Truth. Then you will join the light life without servitude.— Sivavakkiyar, 10th-century Tamil devotional poet and mystic
Source KOLKATA, INDIA, January 13, 2018 (New Indian Express): Over half a million pilgrims are expected to take the holy dip in the Ganga where it flows out into the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on Sunday at the annual Gangasagar Fair, with the West Bengal government and other agencies making elaborate arrangements to ensure peace…
Source Make me silent, O God, that I may eloquently converse with Thee.— Paramahamsa Yogananda (1893-1952), founder of Self Realization Fellowship
Source INDIA, January 11, 2018 (First Post): The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), an autonomous government body which looks after the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateshwara in Tirumala, has issued a notice to its 44 non-Hindu employees and asked the state government to redeploy them in other departments, according to several media reports. The notice seeks an explanation from the…
Source INDIA, January 5, 2018 (YouTube): Dr. Karan Singh is an Indian politician, philanthropist and poet. He was a member of India’s Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, representing the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Singh is the son of the last ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh. Video of Dr. Singh’s…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, January 12, 2018 (Deccan Chronicle): Priests and religious leaders have sought the documentation of murthis in ancient temples across the state to thwart stealing. The state has nearly 20,000 temples, including 12,000 temples that are under the endowment department. According to C.S. Rangarajan, hereditary priest at the famous Chilkur Balaji temple, many temples in the state do…
Source Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it? What might the results be? Can I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, then proceed.— Chanakya (350-275 bce), Indian politician, strategist and writer