Source GUWAHATI, INDIA, June 23, 2017 (NDTV): With China refusing to open the gates to the first batch of about 50 pilgrims scheduled to travel to Kailash Mansarovar through Nathu La in Sikkim, the devotees have returned to Sherthang after waiting for a week. The second batch of pilgrims has been held up in Gangtok. “Yes, there are some difficulties…
Source The key to unusual success lies in one’s ability to be sensitive to opportunities as they arise, and more so, in one’s courage and willpower to actually act on them. These moments pass quickly and if not seized will often not come again. We are in a flow and must willfully act at the appropriate times to be successful.…
Source KOCHI, INDIA, June 16, 2016 (Religion News Service): A high court in southern India has ruled that Christian priests and nuns are entitled to their right to property despite their vows of poverty, signaling an end to a centuries-old tradition that has left many in the clergy destitute. In its order last week in favor of a priest whose…
Source INDIA, May 8, 2017 (Times of India): Do you love the art of chanting sounds? Are you one of those whose day starts with reverberating sounds of Om? Then this may appall you because it is not Om that you must chant; it is Aum. Meditation experts say that the Sanskrit word Aum has, over a period of time…
Source SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, June 13, 2017 (7 News Yahoo): Church officials believe some of the poses done in yoga may lead to spiritual confusion amid a push to remove the exercise from Sydney churches. For many it’s a weekly routine, a good way to relax the mind and stretch out. But could it be sacrilegious? From the end of June,…
Source A million times they are born and die; In a million follies they forget this. In the darkness of mala they are enveloped. When at last the hidden grace of Siva bursts forth and chases away the night, then comes the moment for the soul to renounce, and it then becomes a radiant light. — Tirumantiram 1615
Paras Ramoutar PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, June 14, 2017 (HPI): Indian High Commissioner, Shri Bishwadip Dey has launched a series of activities in Trinidad and Tobago marking International Yoga Day. He told scores of guests and media personnel at the Normandie Hotel that yoga is an invaluable gift of Indian ancient tradition for over 6,000 years, and this was recognized world-wide when…
Source When one remains without thinking, one understands another by means of the universal language of silence. — Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source EMMENBRUeCKE, SWITZERLAND, June 9, 2017 (Obwaldner Zeitung, translated from German): It was a rare religious ceremony for Switzerland: The third Hindu temple of central Switzerland was opened with elaborate rituals. The building is dedicated to the Goddess Sri Rajarajeswary. On Thursday at 5 pm, on Emmenweid Street in the middle of the industrial area of Emmenbruecke, several Tamil women…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 12, 2017 (Indian Express): Over fifty school-going adolescent girls, armed with lathis, swords and knives, with a saffron ribbon tied around their wrists, brandished their weapon-wielding skills in the open courtyard of GLT Saraswati Bal Mandir school in New Delhi on Sunday. This was the culmination of a 15-day training camp, which began on May…