Source NEPAL, September 17, 2015 (Baptist Standard): HPI Note: This news report is coming from a Baptist Church publication. Lawmakers in Nepal rejected an effort to declare the Himalayan nation a Hindu state, adopting a new constitution Sept. 14 defining Nepal as a secular republic but retaining a controversial anti-conversion clause. Elijah Brown, chief of staff with the 21st Century…
Source You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.— Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), founder of Self Realization Fellowship
Source UNITED STATES, September 17, 2015 (Pew Research): One year after history-making political change swept the country, Indians’ fervor for their leader Narendra Modi has not abated. A new poll in India shows the public’s views of the country’s direction and the economy are on the rise. Even so, Indians continue to see problems in their daily lives and in…
Source INDIA, September 15, 2015 (The Hindu): If you have more than 16,845 statues of Ganesha, you are bound to walk into record books! This is what has happened to P. Shekhar, whose lifetime love affair with the statues of the elephant God has earned him a rightful passage into the Guinness Book of World Records for dedicating his life…
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…
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 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…