Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 30, 2017 (Lassi With Lavina by Lavina Melwani): You’ve heard of Versace, St. Laurent and Prada – now here comes Temple Fashion! If you can dress for social events, then why not for God? When it’s Ganesh Chathurthi, the nine-day festival dedicated to that most beloved of Gods, Ganesha, people go all out to…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, September 3, 2017 (YouTube): Every month a team of 60 young and elderly volunteers visits temples in the Chennai area to do cleaning. They clean the brass, the floors, the walls, the pillars using all natural and eco-friendly products. Cleaning brass without harsh chemicals is as easy as using tamarind and lime juice. These natural brass cleaning…
Source To enter into the spiritual life is a rare blessedness, it is a great good: to take it seriously and engage in active spiritual Sadhana is a second blessedness and a still greater good: but to persevere in the spiritual life, to be ever progressive and ceaseless in one’s spiritual life, is the greatest good, the crowning blessedness.— Swami…
Source Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian spiritual leader
Source CADIZ, SPAIN, August 28, 2017 (El Pais, translated from Spanish): The scene is at least curious, but not new: the Hindu God Ganesh, being carried on a palanquin, enters the sanctuary of the church of Our Lady of Africa of Ceuta. There, at the feet of the virgin (the patron saint of the autonomous city), members of the Catholic…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, September 1, 2017 (by Shirish B. Pradhan, Outlook India): The three-day International Hindu Conference began on August 31. Hindu scholars, religious leaders, Hindu activists and officials from different countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the US and the UK are attending the conference with the theme of “Emerging spiritualism: Renaissance of Hinduism.” “The aim of the conference is…
Source You can gain an intricate control of the various things that change in and about you. Lean your thoughts and feelings in the right direction, and discover how quickly your circumstances will change their direction.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source INDIA, August 31, 2017 (Telegraph India, by Kanwal Sibal): The West has built a lot of myths about China which others, including in India, have accepted without challenge. That China was for centuries the dominant power in Asia and is now on the way to recovering that lost status is one such myth. This historical distortion is serving to…
Source ONTARIO, CANADA, July 8, 2006 (religioustolerance.org): HPI Note: The following report on religious freedom in Greece was published by an interreligious organization based in Canada. We were struck by the similarity of these laws to similar ones in some states of India which are the subject of international criticism from time to time. Below are two excerpts. … Laws…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 29, 2017 (Indian Express): Though the torrential rains in Mumbai have dampened the spirit a bit, nothing comes in between Lord Ganesha and his devotees, especially during Ganesh Chaturthi. While many parts of the city were flooded on Tuesday (August 29), people still managed to ferry Ganesha statues across to be immersed, and many visarjans…