Google Unveils Yoga Directory

Source USA, February 22, 2016 (by Kasia Litwinski): Google’s efficiency has now integrated itself into the yoga community. Google has announced that users will be able to learn yoga poses without leaving the search engine. When you search for any yoga pose using the English or Sanskrit name, Google will provide you with all the necessary information to complete the…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Sight is very powerful. Sight is the first connection made with the Deity. The sight of the murti in the temple inner sanctum stimulates and enhances the flow of uplifting energies, or pranas, within the mind and body. Each Deity performs certain functions, is in charge of certain pranas. Seeing the Deity there unfolds in the mind’s eye a…

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Get Prasadam Sacraments from Temples Via Mail

Source INDIA, February 15, 2016 ( The Hindu): India Post has entered into a tie-up arrangement with the Department of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment to make available Mahamaham theertham (sacred water) and prasadams to devotees through post offices all over India. Mahamaham – 2016 packets, containing the Mahamaham theertham, vibuthi, kumkum of 12 Siva temples and 5 Vaishnavaite temples…

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The Roma People of Indian Origin

Source NEW DELHI, February 15, 2016 (Daily Pioneer by K.G. Suresh): Inaugurating the three-day International Roma Conference and Cultural Festival 2016 in New Delhi on Friday, Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj described the people of the Roma community spread across various parts of the world as children of India, who migrated and lived in challenging circumstances in foreign…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Sattvic knowledge sees the one indestructible Being in all beings, the unity underlying the multiplicity of creation. Rajasic knowledge sees all things and creatures as separate and distinct. Tamasic knowledge, lacking any sense of perspective, sees one small part and mistakes it for the whole.— Bhagavad Gita 18:20-22

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Why Saying ‘I Am a Hindu’ Should Be Respected

Source UNITED STATES, February 10, 2016 (Daily O by Dr. David Frawley): Saying “I am a Hindu” is bound to meet with denigration in the West and even in India – more so if someone born in the West states to have formally become a Hindu. Yet for someone in the West to say that they have become a Buddhist…

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Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan

Source JAPAN, February 10, 2016 (youtube): There is a bridge of religiousu culture joining the countries of India and Japan. In the words of Mr. Yasukuni Enoki, Former Ambassador of Japan, “It is very important for the Japanese to know that in the bottom of Japanese culture, Indian culture is very firmly imprinted”. Along with the ideas of Buddhism and…

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Daily Inspiration

Source In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.— Appolonius of Tiana (2-97 ce), Greek philosopher and occultist. His work deeply influenced Western mysticism.

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