Source AUSTRALIA, August 26, 2016 (ABC Rural): The world’s largest producer of Indian sandalwood is gearing up for its first shipment of processed wood, with a ship due out of Darwin Port next month. Tropical Forestry Services (TFS) manages over 30,000 acres of sandalwood trees in northern Australia and has just completed its 2016 harvest in Western Australia’s Ord Irrigation…
Source PAKISTAN, August 28, 2016 (One News Now): Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) published a report announcing that the Islamic nation’s government has broken its promise to purge the religious “hate material” from school textbooks, which are plagued with rhetoric used to incite children with rage toward non-Muslims. World Watch Monitor says that the plan to clean…
Source DADARA, INDIA, August 15, 2016 (National Geographic): On a cloudy day in July, in a remote village in northeastern India, Charu Das excitedly imitates the awkward movements of a stork with her hands. In a few months, the greater adjutant stork–called hargilla, which means “swallower of bones” in Sanskrit–will descend on this hamlet, situated in Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley, to…
Source It is Divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. Your duty is to treat everybody, including yourself, as a manifestation of the Lord.— Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), founder of Divine Life Society, Rishikesh
Source PARIS, FRANCE, August 29, 2016 (Euro News): More than 4,000 Hindu devotees and others celebrated the birth of the elephant God Ganesh in Paris as they paraded through the streets of the French capital in a festival held each year for the past 21 years. As the parade left the temple of Ganesh, devotees made their way through the…
Source ITALY, August 29 (First Page News): Sunday, August 28 over two thousand people came to the Gitananda Hindu Matha Ashram Monastery of Altare (SV) for the celebration of the Ganesha Festival, for many years an annual event for Hindus from all over Italy and neighboring European countries. The stream of devotees came walking the long dirt road that separates…
Source Is there a deeper tragedy than that of a man immersed in the pursuit of the not-self who has no time to realize the Divine Self within?— Sadhu Vaswani, (1879-1966) founder the Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, July 8, 2016 (Swadeshi Indology Press Release): The Swadeshi Indology (SI) Conference series is a new movement that critiques & replaces the Western (videshi) study of Indian civilization. Rather than depicting Indian civilization as a cause of all sorts of problems, SI adopts a balanced approach. It explains how our civilization is also a source of solutions.…
Source By constantly repeating, “I am free, I am free,” a man verily becomes free. On the other hand, by constantly repeating, “I am bound, I am bound,” he certainly becomes bound. The fool who says only, “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” verily drowns himself in worldliness. One should rather say: “I praise the name of God.…
Source INDIA, August 26, 2016 (Aol Travel): Hundreds of people attending a Hindu festival in India’s western Maharashtra state on Thursday defied India’s Supreme Court order limiting the height of human pyramids due to safety concerns. Members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) regional party wearing T-shirts reading “I will break the law” formed a human pyramid 49 feet (15…