Source KAUAI, HAWAII, June 25, 2015 (Hinduism Today): Each quarter our photographers and journalists take us on great journeys to Hinduism’s cultural and religious centers. In this issue, our feature article unravels the complex city of Varanasi, Siva’s Citadel. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth, to which pilgrims flock for a glimpse of God on…
Source MAURITIUS, June 23, 2015, (by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Slate Magazine): (HPI note: 48% of Mauritians are Hindus and the largest religious group on the island.) Suppose someone were to describe to you a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for school children, and free health care–including heart surgery–for all. You might…
Source Sattvic knowledge sees the one indestructible Being in all beings, the unity underlying the multiplicity of creation. Rajasic knowledge sees all things and creatures as separate and distinct. Tamasic knowledge, lacking any sense of perspective, sees one small part and mistakes it for the whole.— Bhagavad Gita 18:20-22
Source UNITED STATES, June 21, 2015 (Huffington Post):The Indian ambassador to the United Nations joined a room full of journalists this week to talk up the first International Day of Yoga. Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji laid out some of the plans for the day in New York City, which includes a yoga teaching at the UN Plaza followed by a…
Source HYDERABAD, June 22, 2015 (The Hindu): By the time yoga had India in its grip early Sunday, it had already broken the Internet, which was flooded with searches, and the social media teeming with related videos, pictures and text. Google Search analysis reveals “Yoga Day” was the most searched term on the popular search engine in India on Saturday.…
Source LISPON, PORTUGAL, June 21, 2015 (Noticias Locais): United by the motto “The Light is Coming,” more than 1,000 people gathered at the Prof. Moniz Pereira to Athletics Track practice yoga, contribute to a day without bloodshed throughout the planet, celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity and inter-religious tolerance. The Portuguese capital was thus one of the world epicenters of the…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 21, 2015 (Times of India): On a humid summer morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stretched his arms, bent his legs, rolled his neck and twisted every sinew in his body as India celebrated the first International Day of Yoga with gusto, muscling into the Guinness World Records. Late Sunday evening, it was announced that the…
Source Love is the only reality, and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.— Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and Nobel laureate
Source INDIA, June 21, 2015 (Cinema Rasik): Today is the first International Yoga Day. It is a major event. So we thought it would be helpful to lay out what is yoga, what is the foundation of yoga, why rigorous pronunciation of various Sanskrit mantras are important to yoga, and why Indian Dharmic Thought was the only one to discover…
Source When individuals change for the better, then society will change, and when society changes, then the country will change.— Pramukh Swami Maharaj, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha