PURI, INDIA, July 8, 2024 (India): Hundreds of thousands of people pulled giant chariots from the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri towards Gundicha temple, around 1.5 miles away, as Rath Yatra festivities began in Odisha on Sunday. The yatra started around 5.20 pm after Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalanada Saraswati visited the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra…
HAMM, GERMANY, July 7, 2024 (www.wa.de, Google translated from German): The Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple was inaugurated on July 7, 2002. Since then, the annual temple festival has been one of the highlights of the Hindu community and again attracted thousands of visitors from home and abroad on Sunday. Uentrop–The big parade, in which the Goddess Sri Kamadchi Ampal is…
UNITED STATES, July 6, 2024 (India Currents, by Partha Sircar): Some time ago I browsed through a thousand-page tome, The Story of Ramakrishna Mission. What struck me was that three chapters were devoted to the Vedanta movement in America. My initial reaction was that it overstated the influence of America on the Vedanta movement (perhaps another example of our penchant…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 7, 2024 (MSN): The Siva Lingam at the Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas has started melting, in just over a week after the yatra to the holy shrine began, due to the ongoing heatwave conditions. The yatra to Amarnath cave shrine began on June 29 this year. The Amarnath Cave, nestled at an altitude of…
PUDUCHERRY, INDIA, July 5, 2024 (The Hindu Business Line): Nearly 12,000 age-old palm-leaf manuscripts that contain historic facts stored in Puducherry are getting a new lease of life. To research these invaluable manuscripts, a mobile container lab from Germany landed at Katupalli port at Ennore by container ship Prague Express and reached Puducherry last month. The container lab consists of…
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 5, 2024 (Hinduism Today, by Fred Stella): In the West, it is entirely possible to run into someone who is not ethnically South Asian yet studies the Bhagavad Gita, meditates with a Sanskrit mantra, is a disciple of a guru, chants bhajans and may even have replaced his or her birth name with Ram or Radhika. However,…
ITALY, June 23, 2024 (La Fedelta, Google translated from Italian): For the Indian community of Centallo and the province of Cuneo it was a dream. Since the beginning of June it has started to become reality. It is a new Hindu temple that will be built in the industrial area of Madonna dei Prati on the north side of town.…
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 3, 2024 (Hinduism Today, by Lakshmi Sridharan): Cinnamon is one of the most highly valued spices, widely used all over the world for centuries. It is used in cooking, baking and as a flavoring agent for many foods and drinks. Traditional medicine systems around the world, including ayurveda, use extracts from the bark, leaves, flowers, fruits and…
SRINAGAR, INDIA, June 29, 2024 (Kashmir Observer): More than 13,000 pilgrims visited the holy cave shrine of Amarnath on Saturday, the first day of the annual pilgrimage in the south Kashmir Himalayas that is being conducted amid tight security. The first batch of pilgrims had left the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan to start their journey to the…
KEDARNATH, INDIA, June 20, 2024 (Oneindia): An avalanche occurred early Sunday morning on June 30th near Gandhi Sarovar in Uttarakhand’s Kedarnath, a famed pilgrimage destination with hundreds of thousands of visitors. The avalanche struck a hill about 2.5 miles away from the Kedarnath temple around 5 am. Authorities quickly informed that there were no casualties or damage to property. Senior…
