Source MALAYSIA, 03 Dec 2013,(by Lim Guan Eng, Malaysia Chronicle): Malaysians are shocked that an ancient Hindu temple (Candi) belonging to the Sri Vijaya era, about 1200 years, was demolished by a developer to make way for a housing project in Sungei Batu area of Kedah. This was one of the temples rebuilt in the 1970s using materials from the…
Source Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.— Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
Source PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA, November 30, 2103 (Jacksonvill.com): The distance was short but the trip was long, with music, dancing and “I love Puja and Deepak” (the bride and groom) sunglasses. It took half an hour or more for Tiny — an elephant — to carry Deepak Dugar across a Ponte Vedra Beach parking lot Saturday to meet his…
Source PUNE, INDAI, November 24, 2013 (Indian Express): Leading up to Sadhu Vaswani’s 134th birth anniversary on November 25, a five-day celebration commenced on Wednesday with a peace march. On Saturday, a Rath Yatra, a chariot of peace for the unity of all religions, was also organized from Sadhu Vaswani’s Sacred Samadhi. Carrying the life-like statue of Sadhu Vaswani, the…
Source PEARLAND, TEXAS, November 14, 2013 (Indo American News): Sri Meenakshi Temple is celebrating the renovation of its original Ganesh Temple with the newly constructed granite sanctum and facility. As dictated by the traditional religious mores of Agama Sastras, consecration and sanctification of the new Sannidhi will be dedicated through the ritualistic grandeur of the Kumbabhishekam. The festivities are planned…
Source SELANGOR, MALAYSIA, November 26, 2013 (The Star): The Selangor government has decided to only award financial assistance to Hindu temples registered with the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. In announcing the decision, Selangor executive councillor for poverty and estate affairs V. Ganabatirau said the Negri Sembilan, Perak and Malacca state governments had already implemented this. “Hindu Sangam is the umbrella body…
Source LALMONIRHAT, BANGLADESH, November 29, 2013 (The Daily Star): Hindus came under attack allegedly by activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat for the second time in a month yesterday. The attackers beat up at least 12 women and children and torched and looted at least five shops and two houses at Ghoshpara village of…
Source Like the household fire, devotees seek the glory of the Lord even from afar and enshrine it in their inner chamber for enlightenment. The glory of our Lord is full of splendor, all-illuminative and worthy to be honored in every heart.— Rig Veda 7.1.2
Source OSLO, NORWAY, November 20, 2013 (Times of India): The Norwegian military said Tuesday it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy — climate change. The army said its new meatless Mondays are meant to cut its consumption of ecologically unfriendly foods whose production contributes…
Source Hinduism is the most skeptical and the most believing of all religions. The most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most and the deepest, rejecting nothing but insisting on testing and experiencing everything. From this comes our scriptures and our beliefs: the Vedas, the Vedanta, the Gita, the Upanishads… But the most authoritative scripture is in the…