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
Source UNITED STATES, June 7, 2015 (Lassi With Lavina by Lavina Melwani): Recently US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard got married in a Vedic ceremony in Hawaii. A Hindu, she has even taken her congressional oath on the Bhagavad Gita. Her name Tulsi means the Holy Basil which is so central to Hindu belief. Her mother Carol Gabbard was brought up in…
Source CHINA, June 20, 2015 (Hindustan Times): The Bhagavad Gita has made its debut in China with the release of a Chinese version during an international yoga conference being held in the Communist nation. Translated by professor Wang Zhu Cheng and Ling Hai of Zhejiang University in Shanghai and published by Sichuan People’s Publications, the book was launched at a…
Source I know you are busy. At least, your mind has made you think so. Even so, can you not find some time to invite God, your Supreme Guest, to bless you–you and your life–with His all-illumining and all-fulfilling presence?— Sri Chinmoy, renowned spiritual leader, author, poet, artist, musician and athlete
Source INDIA, June 15, 2015 (Mydigitalfc by Michel Danino): Surprisingly, whether Vedic literature, the earliest in India, begins before, during or after the Indus-Sarasvati civilisation remains an unsettled question after almost a century of Harappan archaeology. The answer hinges on whether one accepts or rejects the mainstream view that Aryan-speaking tribes swept into the Indian subcontinent around 1500 BC, some…
Source BEIJING, CHINA, June 17, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): China is pressing ahead with preparations to open the new second Kailash Manasarovar Yatra road route to Indian pilgrims on June 22 despite difficulties caused by the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal which has badly affected the border regions in Tibet. The first batch of the pilgrims was expected to travel through…