Source IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, February 22, 2016 (Inside Higher Ed): The University of California at Irvine is walking away from two gifts to establish endowed chairs in Hindu and India studies after faculty members and students raised concerns about the ideology of the donors and the influence they sought to exert in the search process. The gifts in question came from…
Source Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived, both inwardly and outwardly.— Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), founder of Divine Life Society
Source PAKISTAN, February 16, 2016 (BBC): A province in Pakistan has become the first in the largely Muslim country to give Hindus the right to register their marriage officially. The bill was passed on Monday by lawmakers in Sindh – home to many of Pakistan’s three million Hindus. Activists say that without such a law, Hindu women are targets for…
Source AGRA, INDIA, February 16, 2016 (Times of India): In a sensational robbery, a statue of Shesh Nag, made of ashtdhatu (a combination of eight metals- gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, tin, iron and mercury), which was installed by President Dr. Pranab Mukherjee at Chandrodaya Temple at Vrindavan in November 2014, was reportedly stolen on Monday night. According to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Source INDIA, February 9, 2016 (dharmathatrustJK): Ancient manuscripts from the Sanskrit Collection at Raghunath Temple of the Royal Family of Jammu & Kashmir, courtesy: H.E. Maharaja Karan Singh Dharmartha Trust J&K, are now available online at source above.