Source ALVDAL, NORWAY, September 11, 2017 (Ostlendingen, Google translation from Norwegian): It’s been 100 years since the Indian philosopher, poet and sage Swami Sri Ananda Acharya, known locally as Baral, came to Alvdal and settled down at Tronsvangen. On Saturday evening, September 16, this anniversary is celebrated with two and a half hours of musical and artistic celebration in the…
Source INDIA, September 24, 2017 (International Business Times): Soon, all the temples under the endowments department in Karnataka will be implementing a dress code. The Karnataka Rajya Dharmika Parishat (a quasi-judicial body formed by the government under the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Amended Act 2011) decided to make dress code compulsory to preserve the sanctity inside temples…
Source DUBAI, September 23, 2017 (Gulf News): Thousands of Hindu Indian expatriates in Dubai are recreating the vibrant Navratri festival which began on Thursday in India. Navratri (nav means nine and ratri means nights) symbolises the victory of positivity over negativity and culminates in the celebration of Dussehra, a tenth-day festival celebrating the victory of good over evil, where effigies…
Source Devout Hindus meet a satguru and in seeing him, draw the darshan vibration from him, absorbing it into themselves. When we say someone is holy or saintly we are feeling the radiations of that divine energy flooding through him and out into the whole world.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source BALI, INDONESIA, September 22, 2017 (Coconuts Bali): Balinese Hindus have been conducting a number of ceremonies at Mt. Agung, trying to prevent a deadly eruption from the volcano, while Muslims across the island have been getting together and likewise praying that the island is spared from a great natural disaster. Agung, a volcano located in Karangasem, Bali, has shown…
Source SINGAPORE, September 22, 2017 (Straits Times): Solar and lunar eclipses usually draw many admirers eager to view the phenomenon, but there is a lesser known impact when they fall on the same day as the annual Thaipusam procession. As a result of a total lunar eclipse taking place on Jan 31 next year from 6.51pm to 11.11pm, the usual…
Source The light which shines above heaven, above all the worlds, above everything, that is the same light which is within man. We can perceive it as the warmth in the body. And of it we have this audible proof: when we thus hear, by covering the ears, what is like the rumbling of a carriage, or the bellowing of…
Source KOLKATA, INDIA, September 20, 2017 (Times of India): Questioning the West Bengal government’s curbs on Durga statue immersion, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday said the State cannot hinder a citizen’s right to practise religion on the basis of a mere assumption of law and order disruption and must provide sound reasons for doing so. “Let them (Hindus and…
Source With love enshrined in the heart, one truly lives. Without it, the body is but bones encased in skin.— Tirukkural 80
Source MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2017 (Lokvani by K. Arvind): Prof. K. Ramasubramanian from IIT, Mumbai, delivered a lecture titled “Glimpses of Indian Mathematics: Sutra Style to Paragon of Poetry” at MIT on Sunday, August 13, 2017. In this talk, Prof. K. Ramasubramanian offered an illuminating view of Indian Mathematics over the ages, its unique approach based on poetry rather…