Source JAMMU, INDIA, July 12, 2015 (India Today): The annual Hindu pilgrimage Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir was stopped on Sunday due to inclement weather, police said. Heavy rainfall triggered landslides leading to the blockade of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway at Gangroo in Udhampur district. It has been raining heavily in the Jammu region and the valley since Sunday…
Source There was once a wise man who lived simply. His spartan food habits reflected this. He had a friend who, being a sycophant of the king, lived in great luxury. One day this friend called on the wiseman while he was eating. Looking at the food, the friend said, “My friend, if you can please the king like me,…
Source UNITED STATES, July 5, 2015 (USA Today): Through the big eyes of a little boy, director Sanjay Patel has animated his journey from a California kid watching cartoons to a man respecting his father’s Indian traditions. Premiering in front of The Good Dinosaur (in theaters Nov. 25), the Disney/Pixar short film Sanjay’s Super Team begins with a scene similar…
Source MADRID, SPAIN, July 8, 2015 (El Faro Digital): On June 20 and 21 the third convocation of Hindus in Spain took place in Madrid. The meeting was held at the Jhulelal Mandir, a Hindu temple headed by Lal Chandnani, which gave its facilities for free for the event. The meeting was organized by the Hindu priest Juan Carlos Ramchandani…
Source CHINA, July 6, 2015 (China Post by Raja Murthy): At 3:30 p.m. eastern time on July 3, U.S. President Barack Obama was online on Twitter, taking questions on his new health care and Affordable Care Act. Quite likely Obama is unaware of his importing from his India visit this January a lesser known but significant practice to health care:…
Source Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.— Adi Shankara, 9th century Indian philosopher and saint
Source MOSCOW, RUSSIA, July 9, 2015 (New York Times): President Vladimir Putin avowed on Wednesday that he was ready to add yoga, the ancient discipline of mindfulness and gentle stretching, to his repertoire of strictly macho sports. “I have tried many things, but never yoga, but it cannot fail to attract,” Mr. Putin told Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India…
Source NEPAL, April 29, 2015 (sociocheck.com): The massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday, not only killed more than 5000 people but also destroyed some of the country’s most iconic landmarks and flattened many of the country’s historic structures. The massive earthquake – the worst to hit Nepal in 80 years – devastated the capital of Kathmandu. Its…
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, July 10, 2015 (Niti Central): Barely a week before the Nabakalebara Rath Jatra of Lord Jagannath gets underway, Shankaracharya of Puri Swami Nischalananda Saraswati today blamed the chief administrator of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration for the mismanagement in the 12th century shrine. “I hold Shree Jagannath Temple Administration’s chief administrator responsible for all the chaos in…
Source The syllable gu means shadows. The syllable ru, he who disperses them. Because of the power to disperse darkness, the guru is thus named.— Advayataraka Upanishad