Source VELLORE, INDIA, January 23, 2014 (The Hindu): Residents of Ayyanur, about three miles west of Ambur, thought of a novel but hi-tech idea of retaining a small 300-year-old Amman temple when the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) decided to demolish it to facilitate the widening of the four-lane Chennai-Bangalore National Highway into a six-lane highway. R. Moorthy, president…
Source UNITED STATES, January 27, 2014 (The Hindu): The Iowa-based institutions of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have confirmed that at least 130 Indian religious scholars known as Vedic pandits have gone missing in recent years, after arriving in the U.S. to pursue programs of religious learning, even as one of the institutions’ officials described some media reports alleging ill-treatment as “replete…
Source CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, January 26, 2014 (NDTV): In a shocking revelation, as many as 163 Indians, most of them brought to the US as teenagers from villages in northern India to be trained into Vedic Pandits by two institutions set up by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of transcendental meditation fame, appear to have gone missing over the last 12 months. Of…
Source Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Source UNITED STATES, January 26, 2014 (youtube): This 2008 video describes Super Brain Yoga as a simple and effective technique to energize and recharge the brain. It is based on the principle of subtle energy and ear acupuncture. The exercise is intended to pump up cell and neuron activity in the brain. Alzheimer patients, seniors looking to stave off memory…
Source Only the guru is father, mother and brother. He is also friend, well-wisher and the only wealth. Thus everything should be surrendered to him. The disciple, fully surrendered to the guru, sees him as God, and then becomes God himself.— Chandra Jnana Agama, 2.68
Source UNITED KINGDOM, January 20, 2014 (BBC): Once veganism was widely associated with animal rights activists, the health conscious and the religious. But now more and more people are dabbling with a vegan diet, albeit temporarily. A growing trend for giving up all animal products doesn’t involve going vegan forever. Nor does it even require being morally opposed to eating…
Source January 22, 2014 (Huffington Post): Elaborately decorated Hindu temples sing praise to the glory of God with their breathtaking architecture. Hinduism is called the world’s oldest religion and many of these structures are full of history. Slideshow at source–click the second photo to launch the slideshow.
Source BANGLADESH, January 22, 2014 (The Daily Star): Hindu temples and houses came under attack in at least five districts across the country on Monday. Unidentified criminals attacked a temple and vandalized four statues in a temple in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj as they were allegedly barred from taking part in a dancing program on Monday night. Witnesses said, a…
Source The more we are conscious of God’s presence in daily life, the more intense is the fullness of the joy we experience. God means infinitely more to our existence than the light of the sun means to the plants and trees.— Swami Omkarananda, (1930-2000), founder of Omkarananda Ashram