Source OTTAWA, CANADA, November 22, 2015 (CBC News): A yoga instructor who says her free class at the University of Ottawa was cancelled because of concerns over cultural appropriation believes the student union’s issues are misplaced. Cultural appropriation is when a culture that’s seen as an oppressor borrows or steals elements of a culture they’re oppressing. Scharf said there is…
Source In the house of the seer there are five cows (the five senses), which without a cowherd wander everywhere. If they were controlled and their thirst quenched, they would give milk.— Tirumantiram, a sacred mystical treatise by Rishi Tirumular.
Source VARANASI, INDIA, November 23, 2015 (The News Minute): Foreign women visitors wearing short dresses to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi will now be advised to wear a sari while entering the temple according to an order issued by the temple trust, The Times of India reported. Though there won’t be a dress code, but female visitors, especially foreigners,…
Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 22, 2015 (press release): Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ramakrishna Mission in Malaysia today. Inaugurating a statue of Swami Vivekananda there, Shri Modi said that Vivekananda was not only a name but he personified the thousands of years old Indian culture and civilization. Further adding, Shri Modi mentioned that both Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramhansa…
Source NEPAL, November 21, 2015 (Daily Pioneer, editorial by Hari Bansh Jha): The Madhesi uprising cannot be resolved on foreign soil as it is a fight for democracy within the country. Blaming any other country without keeping its own house in order will only complicate the matter. If at all the problem is to be resolved, it would be possible…
Source As long as someone cries out “O God! O God!” be sure that he has not found God, for whoever has found Him becomes still.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source COIMBATORE, INDIA, November 17, 2015 (Change): A group of 53 eminent Indian historians, archaeologists and scholars of Indian civilization has taken strong objection to a recent letter signed by 176 leftist historians and social scientists from India and overseas. They are requesting concerned persons to sign their petition at “source” above. Accusing the leftist group of creating a “bogeyman”…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, November 17, 2015 (YouTube): In 1995, construction work was completed on the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir – or Neasden Temple as it is popularly known. To celebrate the temple’s 20th anniversary, the socio-spiritual Hindu organisation, BAPS, decided to mark the occasion with this magnifiaient documentary available at source above and covering the full celebration in August.
Source The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze, but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.— Ramayana
DEHRADUN, INDIA, November 18, 2015 (by Seema Sharma, Times of India): The portals of Badrinath temple were closed at 4 pm on Tuesday for the winter amid chants and hymns. Thousands were present on the occasion. Badrinath was the last of the Char Dham shrines to close for the winters after Gangotri, Kedarnath and Yamunotri shrines. Owing to the easy…