Source WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND, April 4, 2017 (kath.ch): There are 50,000 Hindus in Switzerland. Until recently they had no common voice. On April 2nd, however, various organizations have joined forces to form the “Schweizerischen Dachverband fuer Hinduismus” – the Swiss Hindu Association. With the Swiss Hindu Association the various groups and communities have “a unified, equitable and official place in multi-religious…
Source Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved. — Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), Indian guru
Source INDIA, June 7, 2016, (Speaking Tree): A land of diversified cultures and religion, India is believed to be blessed with edifices that are traced since ancient times. The country not only has the oldest religion in existence, but some magnificent temples, including the Kailasa Temple in Ellora, Maharashtra, carved out of solid rock back in the 8th century AD.…
Source CANADA, April 4, 2017 (Angus Reid Institute): Canada is often held up as the paragon of a diverse society. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proclaimed that “diversity is Canada’s strength.” A new study from the Angus Reid Institute finds not only support for, but also limitations to that narrative when it comes to both faith and the visible role…
Source INDIA, March 29, 2017 (Daily Mail by David Frawley): India is one of the oldest countries in the world and probably the best at preserving its ancient heritage. The Vedas compiled thousands of years ago remain commonly chanted today. India’s independence movement was rooted in Yoga and Vedanta and the country’s older civilizational inspiration through Swami Vivekananda, Tilak, Aurobindo…
Source Realize the truest reality, the real power, that you are; Infinite you are, above all danger and difficulty. — Swami Rama Thirtha (1873-1906), Hindu teacher and lecturer
Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, April 3, 2017 (LA Times): Varun Soni straightened his shoulders and grasped the podium, his dark suit flanked by the stately white robes of priests and ministers. A beloved professor had been stabbed to death. As USC’s head chaplain, it fell to Soni to help the hundreds gathered outside that day to process their loss. And…
Source Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing. — Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), famed guru of Swami Vivekananda
Source BRAZIL, March 17, 2017 (Globo.com): An ordinance of the Ministry of Health, published on Tuesday (March 28) in the Official Gazette of the Union, has included 14 new alternative therapies in the National Policy of Integrative and Complementary Practices (PNPIC). In January, the ministry had announced that these procedures would soon be offered by the Unified Health System (SUS).…
Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, March 30, 2017 (Hindustan Times): The Uttarakhand high court on Thursday told the state pollution control board to seal hotels, ashrams and industrial units in Haridwar for polluting the Ganga by discharging untreated waste into the river. The order, which came two days after a mining ban in the hill state, would hit 700 of the 1,400…