Source CHENNAI, INDIA, September 17, 2015 (Business Standard): Vinayaka Chathurthi was celebrated across Tamil Nadu today with spiritual fervor and traditional gaiety. People offered prayers in their homes with the traditional clay-made deities besides worshipping Ganesha in temples and pandals set up by residents and Hindu outfits. Hailed as remover of obstacles, Lord Ganesha was offered Kozhukattai, a sweet dish…
Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…
Source SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA September 17, 2015 (by Geoff Hiscock, Tropical Forest Service): From luxury French perfumes such as Chanel No. 5 and Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium to the humble incense stick, from traditional Chinese medicine to modern pharmaceuticals, and from Hindu and Buddhist religious carvings to fine furniture, there is a common ingredient – sandalwood. For thousands of years, richly scented…
Source LUCKNOW, INDIA, September 16, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): The state government has decided to take elderly residents of Uttar Pradesh to the pilgrimage of Tirupati and Rameshwaram free of cost under the Samajwadi Shrawan Sewa scheme. The pilgrimage is slated from November 26 till December 4. There will be 1044 berths for the pilgrims. Every sleeper coach will have one…
Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 4, 2015 (Mid Day): With Ganesh Chaturthi round the corner, September 17 to be precise, devotees in the city are in preparation mode to welcome Mumbai’s elephant God. Due to a scarcity of pandits during the Ganesh festival K.J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham has designed a special Ganesh puja course. In a workshop conducted recently, participants…
Source PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, September 8, 2015 (Khmer Times): Addressing a sore point in bilateral relations, Hor Namhong, a Deputy Prime Minister, asked Ambassador Naveen Srivastava to stop work on an Angkor Wat Temple replica, planned by Mahavir Mandir, a Hindu trust based in the eastern Indian state of Bikar. “Angkor Wat Temple is the heart of Cambodia, and the…
Source Life should be dynamic, full of movement, flowing endlessly like the mighty Ganges. Life’s movement should be channelled in the right direction. Life becomes a burden for many people because it has lost its dynamism. For them life is not like a flowing river. It is a static, turbid puddle. Understand that action gives movement to life, knowledge gives…
Participants included Imam Wazir Ali from Masjid Warithud-deen Mohammed in Houston, Acharya Arumuganathaswami, managing editor of Hinduism today and from Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii, the Rev. Kathryn Boren from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Msgr. Larry Droll from St. Ann’s Catholic Church and the Rev. Randel Everett from 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative in Virginia. Topics included; Religious Persecution, Homosexuality…
Source If you have not seen your own Self, if you have not pierced the knots of your Heart and washed away the filth of your mind, then what does it matter if you are a human being?— Kabir
Source UNITED STATES, September 4, 2015 (Open by Murali Balaji): In 1855, German Indologist Albrecht Weber wrote to the Prussian minister of culture on the benefits of continued investment in the study of classical Indian traditions, arguing that only he and his brethren could shed light on what was previously “dark” to the rest of the world. By studying the…